Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?

Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by joenathanone on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:03AM (#28405144)

Excel is insane, the undo button is universal, meaning if you are editing multiple spreadsheets, you can’t just undo changes to one of them if you made a mistake between editing, you have to undo all changes to all open spreadsheets to get back to your desired undo point.

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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by tragomaskhalos on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:30AM (#28405527)

Joel Spolsky used to work on Excel and he has written some brilliant stuff about it (at least, in its early days). My personal favourite is the revelation that the Excel team had their own C compiler, which kind of takes Not Invented Here into the stratosphere.

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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by hughrr on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:10AM (#28405225)

Oh god this is one feature that literally makes me want to jump on a plane to Redmond and throw my own excrement at them like a deranged chimpanzee.

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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 03, 2021 @02:04PM (#28407358)

It's still an MDI app under the covers (not that that's any excuse).

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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by quakeguy on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:07AM (#28405186)

Yeah, this is so unproductive, it boggles the mind.

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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by officeplant on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:52AM (#28405794)

This is why I always open up multiple instances of Excel.

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