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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by artmageddon on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:35PM (#9461102)
> Microsoft Office is being supplanted by Google Docs being both free and 'good enough'

I like Google Docs as much as the next guy or girl, but I find this hard to believe when we had to end a meeting several minutes into it when the Google Doc displayed an http-500-style error when trying to load a spreadsheet.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by emodendroket on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:39PM (#9461132)
If you know what you're doing with Office/use the advanced features there is just no comparison. Office is the Emacs of the business world. But I suppose most people could get on well enough with Google Docs.
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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by yellowapple on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:35PM (#9461544)
This is especially true with Excel and Access (and to a limited extent PowerPoint). It's insane how much business logic can (and often does) live inside some random Excel spreadsheet.
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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by emodendroket on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:51PM (#9461677)
Word mail merges are actually a fully featured templating system. On top of the whole thing being scriptable. But I think this is less "discoverable" than Excel.
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