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Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by legitster »

braderhart wrote: post #26
bko wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keyboard shortcuts are huge. Also I’m used to the ribbon which I don’t think they copied yet

All of the apps I suggested have excellent keyboard shortcuts and options as well. So this is really about the ribbon interface to you? I am wondering which Microsoft PR company you work for?

> I am wondering which Microsoft PR company you work for?

What an, awful, terrible sentiment. "The only reason someone could ever disagree with me is they are a paid shill".

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by granttimmerman »

Analemma_ wrote: post #7
aaronarduino wrote: post #4

Hopefully, this will start a trend away from MS Office to other office programs. Preferably open source solutions.

Why would you assume moving to GSuite is indicative of a trend toward open-source? You have even less control than with Office.

(Disclaimer: I work on G Suite Open Source) I open sourced our developer samples this week: github.com/gsuitedevs

There's an increasing amount of things you can do with G Suite, almost all our products have APIs and Apps Script libraries.

If there's something missing in our APIs, feel free to let us know.

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by redm »

I love G-Suite, and I use it daily for documents, sheets, and mail. I can do most things I need to do in sheets. That said, Sheets is no replacement for Excel nor is the performance on par for complex and dynamic sheets.

I suspect this is a general change over as a base solution for all employees. I'm sure there are still parts of Airbus that will continue using Excel, Word, etc.

IMHO this speaks to the fact that Office is overpowered (or bloated depending on how you look at it) for average employee needs; perhaps a cost savings issue too.

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by [deleted] »

sidcool wrote: post #22
andygcook wrote: post #5

Curious if Airbus moving over to GSuite has anything to do with Google Hangouts Chat launching and being included in GSuite as the final piece of the puzzle. Google didn't have an answer to Microsoft Teams, but now it does.

Hangout chats is nowhere close to teams or slack. It's quite rudimentary

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Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by WDCDev »

golergka wrote: post #8
aaronarduino wrote: post #4

Hopefully, this will start a trend away from MS Office to other office programs. Preferably open source solutions.

I'm yet to find a single decent alternative to Excel. It's an excellent data modeling and analysis tool. And yes, I've learned Python, R and SQL, but these tools are not a replacement for the Excel workflow.

I agree. I have been using it for over 20 years now, and use it almost daily in many different capacities. Excel along with the entire MS Office suite of applications is ubiquitous across almost every enterprise.

I am curious how Airbus is going to handle external vendors, customers and organizations sending them complex Excel Spreadsheets and Word Documents.

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by patrickaljord »

freehunter wrote: post #27
braderhart wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is simply not true. Google has been a much stronger supporter of open source. Ever heard of Android? What about Kubernetes? Chromium? Also, Google Docs supports exporting to ODS and other document formats... in addition to automatic conversion into Google Drive.

>Google has been a much stronger supporter of open source That's debatable. According to GitHub, Microsoft is the biggest contributor to open source projects. http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-github-open-source-... In addition, there are quite a few high-profile open source software packages directly from Microsoft. https://opensource.microsoft.com

> That's debatable. According to GitHub, Microsoft is the biggest contributor to open source projects.

Sorry but this is so wrong, Google does not host any of its biggest project on github: Chromium and Android. There were articles written about this.

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by hinkley »

golergka wrote: post #8
aaronarduino wrote: post #4

Hopefully, this will start a trend away from MS Office to other office programs. Preferably open source solutions.

I'm yet to find a single decent alternative to Excel. It's an excellent data modeling and analysis tool. And yes, I've learned Python, R and SQL, but these tools are not a replacement for the Excel workflow.

Long have I wished for an open source spreadsheet tool built on a database backend.

I don’t hear the stories as much these days but for ages it was common for contracting firms to come into a place and find they’d been running the whole operation as an Excel spreadsheet and they had a very poor understanding of how complicated it would be to grow their system. Basically a complete rewrite to a DB model.

I thought for sure when Oracle bought Sun that this would be forthcoming but nothing came of it.

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by legitster »

golergka wrote: post #8
aaronarduino wrote: post #4

Hopefully, this will start a trend away from MS Office to other office programs. Preferably open source solutions.

I'm yet to find a single decent alternative to Excel. It's an excellent data modeling and analysis tool. And yes, I've learned Python, R and SQL, but these tools are not a replacement for the Excel workflow.

It's hard to describe why Excel is so good at what it does. The only way I can think to describe it is "the most amount of power for the least amount of work."
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