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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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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
Let me know when they open source their spyware OS and then we'll talk. Until then you are just continuing to campaign for exploiting educational tools by locking them down so that students can't understand why they are getting forced upgrades, always getting viruses, and having their shopping and browsing information sent to Microsoft Moscow or Mossad.
Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite
#113I 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 Off…
I agree that sheets is no excel, but it does almost everything I need, and a few things better. A few examples:
- JavaScript as a scripting language. (It's no python but it's nicer than vbscript.)
- Builtin regex functions (regexextract, regexmatch, regexreplace).
Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite
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I agree with your critique. This is just a hunch but I don't think they are ahead: - Outlook.com must be one of the worst web apps there is. Compared to Gmail it's just plain awful. - Sharepoint is decidedly one of the worst pieces of software ever built, that is if you are a developer. If you are an editor/content manager then it is possible it's just fine.
The Outlook.com app that just rolled out of Beta (and seems much more closely related to the work the ex-Accompli team has been doing with Windows Mail app that is also the iOS/Android Outlook apps) is rather good. It's probably still a few months until it rolls out to most Office 365 tenants, though.
You can't beat Gmail labels and filters.
Outlook likes to duplicate things. They don't even have smart folder support in their web UI.
Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite
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If the result is that we have moved from MS straight into the arms of Google we have won nothing. I wish LibreOffice would get more dev investment from big companies. As of now they are unfortunately way behind MS Office in terms of usability and design.
> If the result is that we have moved from MS straight into the arms of Google we have won nothing We would have won, at least, the freedom to use the operating system of our choice. Microsoft software means you eventually need to use theirs.
Instead, they force you to use their browser. It's not terribly different.
Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite
#116No Microsoft fanboy, quite the contrary. But ended up installing Office 365 for my SOs business (~ 30 people) last year. And I'm properly impressed, by the amount of progress they do. It is a solid offering for very little money. Yes something like Teams (Slack Clone) might be feel a bit betaish. But they are starting to add features such as recording of meeting, automatic transcribing and inline message translation.…
Yet they can't even support WebRTC for audio/video in Linux? They are still 5 to 10 years behind everyone else and are a dying company.
Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite
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It is true that Sheets isn't as powerful as Excel. But it's a good substitute for 99% of users. And for people dealing with complex models/large amount of data, they should probably use a proper programming language (Python, R) and version control.
Google Sheet's limit of 400k cells sounds like a lot, that could be as few as 40k rows with 10 columns (probably lot of them would be dimensional). As someone who works with large amounts of data and business users, it sounds nice to say everyone should learn to code and query, but in practice the business users can get a lot done with a big spreadsheet with fewer errors and less training. I frequently hold classes t…
Have you ever heard of LibreOffice Calc, which from my experience greatly outperforms Excel?
Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite
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You're proving the grandparent's point. Android's "openness" matters only if you want to build your own OS based on Android or you're a system integrator. For users buying Android devices, it's more often than not just as closed platform as any other alternative.
what kind of extra openness you expect from android?
For example:
- A way for users to prohibit internet access per application
- no forced installation of the whole Google Play Services, just to get access to the Play Store
- better root management, so that manufacturers can ship access to root to all users
- less politics in the Play Store. Google has for example thrown out 3rd party YouTube apps that offered background playback, because those supposedly violated YouTube ToS with that, shortly before introducing a paid option for background playback in their own YouTube app.
Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite
#119Earlier 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
Did you know that GitHub doesn't equal the definer of open source, in fact in many ways they are the opposite, and that GitLab and many other projects operate outside the confinements of a commercial solution?
Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite
#120Curious if anyone has tried Zoho? how does it compare
It compares poorly.
Zoho is to GSuite what OpenOffice is to Microsoft Office.