Re:Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice
by wil421 on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:01AM
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The megacorp I work for has 40k people. There’s probably more people who can write Macros for excel than know JavaScript or Python (or who are willing to learn either). I’ve met business people who are masters of excel who’ve been using it since the 90s. Asking a huge amount of non-tech people to switch is extremely hard, much harder to convince them to use a new scripting language.
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Re:Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice
by diffeomorphism on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:23AM
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Sure, that is a perfectly valid point. However, I think that "libreoffice breaks" says something quite different than "MS Office's VBA has bad compatibility with anything but MS Office and thus provides very strong lock-in".
Out of interest, is there any non-MS office suite with better VBA compatibility than libreoffice? For instance in view to the whole Adobe Venezuela story.