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Re:Touching the back wall of the Apple store by bboygravity on Monday June 30, 2025 @09:31AM (#44423076)
Everybody uses Microsoft, because they have to. Not because they love it or even like it.

That's the root cause of why the stores failed.

Think about it: how many people openly say that they love to use Apple products vs people who openly say they love Microsoft products?

I have never ever heard anybody say/write about a great Microsoft product.

I write all of this as someone who uses Windows, Teams and other Microsoft crap every day all day.

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Re:Touching the back wall of the Apple store by dan-robertson on Monday June 30, 2025 @11:27AM (#44424484)
Excel is one example of a product that is well liked and considered extremely valuable by some people. Azure (if that’s still the name for their aws competitor) is also reasonably well liked from what I can tell. Certainly it seemed they were beating gcp by having a product people liked more.
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Re:Touching the back wall of the Apple store by _pob on Monday June 30, 2025 @11:47AM (#44424695)
As someone that works with large AWS, GCP, AliCloud, and Azure footprints I can assure you that Azure is god awful in every single aspect.

Especially, but not limited to, support.

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Re:Touching the back wall of the Apple store by kjkjadksj on Monday June 30, 2025 @12:51PM (#44425411)
Excel was feature complete in the 90s. Everything added since has made it worse. I have 12 cores and it takes as long as it did to merely startup as in 1995.
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Re:Touching the back wall of the Apple store by dan-robertson on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:32AM (#44434266)
The improved table naming and array functions seem pretty important. The flash full feature also seems quite useful.
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Re:Touching the back wall of the Apple store by NuclearPM on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:36AM (#44434311)
You never learned to use the features added since 1995. That’s the problem.
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Re:Touching the back wall of the Apple store by IIsi50MHz on Thursday July 03, 2025 @10:48PM (#44460746)
Launching Excel 2010 is bliss compared to all newer versions. But lambda and let can be magical.

And Alt-Q to find Excel features is kinda good. There's usually a short annoying delay while Excel activates the feature. And once it returns results, it never places the keyboard focus on the first result, so you always have to down-arrow instead of just pressing enter to accept the first result.

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