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Reply to: by KeithZG
This.
I’ve never used Microsoft Office myself beyond briefly being forced to (I started out my life with computers as a WordPerfect partisan) but I’ve seen enough businesses with complex Excel macros where, even if they’d eventually be better off if they switched to something else, it really just isn’t worth the massive effort that’d be required to shift everything. If they’d’ve been able to open all their legacy documents with all the macros still embedded, suddenly the Surface RT tablet looks mighty tempting. Without that, though, it’s as useless to them as LibreOffice or Google Docs would be.
Reply to: by KeithZG
This.
I’ve never used Microsoft Office myself beyond briefly being forced to (I started out my life with computers as a WordPerfect partisan) but I’ve seen enough businesses with complex Excel macros where, even if they’d eventually be better off if they switched to something else, it really just isn’t worth the massive effort that’d be required to shift everything. If they’d’ve been able to open all their legacy documents with all the macros still embedded, suddenly the Surface RT tablet looks mighty tempting. Without that, though, it’s as useless to them as LibreOffice or Google Docs would be.