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Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger by maeil on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @01:26AM (#42303470)
The big problem is Excel. Microsoft will make sure never to give that one up. Browser version isn't enough. I'm sure Apple has their reasons for not financing a full-fledged, compatible version, but if they would it would massively increase market share. I'm guessing it's strategic - e.g. not incurring the wrath of Microsoft or a different non-technical, non-marketshare reason.

The world outside of the SV tech bubble runs on Excel.

Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger by cogman10 on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:40AM (#42308127)
2 things.

1. Excel now-a-days is mostly just an electron app. That's what the office 365 conversion was effectively.

2. MS has supported ARM platforms for quite some time now. [1]

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/office-windows-11-arm-starts-...

[2] http://www.emulators.com/docs/abc_arm64ec_explained.htm