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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by alemanek on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:35AM (#39930958)
Uh using an out of date and unsupported Excel version is a really bad idea. Lots of security vulnerabilities around VB scripting/macros which gives you the very real risk of being compromised by a malicious spreadsheet.

Better to just switch where you can and invest resources into improving FOSS offerings to handle the use cases it currently can’t.

Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by rightbyte on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:38AM (#39940039)
Executing malicious code on your computer is a problem, ye.

If you want to give the users a nice programming environment you can't also prevent them from doing arbitrary computations.

You can run Excel in a VM if you want.