Excel is very polished. Serious kudos to the development team.
But where's my pivot table? j/k
Microsoft Office Online
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#62Is this a (belated) reaction to Google Docs being "good enough" for many use cases? We also just heard about Chrome OS pushing Microsoft to cut the price of Windows licenses for low-end laptops. Plus we have Nokia (soon to be Microsoft's smartphone division) releasing low-end handsets based on Android. These may all be reasonable strategic choices (I tend to think they're at least heading in the right direction), but…
> Is this a (belated) reaction to Google Docs being "good enough" for many use cases?
Yes, but it was belated when this was released 4 years ago.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's like we're not even trying to avoid cliche comments any more.
It's Tuesday night, it's late in SF. Still at the office. I felt MS Office Online should have been free from the start. So having a bit of fun, no need to be serious and write 5 paragraph comments analyzing the news, how you feel about the news, and how it impacts the industry. Sometimes being cliché is exactly what is in order.
Jokes on HN are strongly discouraged. As much as people like them, their presence creates a feedback loop that drives the noise-to-signal ratio through the roof. Jokes can be made, understood and voted up very quickly. In a democratic situation like HN, this leads to a large volume of replies and up votes that quickly drowns out all relevant conversation. The more threads that feature jokes, the harder it becomes to discourage them in the future. It seems the fate of all vote-based forums to eventually devolve into a sea of memes (HN -> Reddit -> Digg). HN's anti-humor downvote brigade gets a lot of pushback, but they are so harsh because they are doing their best to hold back that tide.
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#64According to Wikipedia " rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Online> , Office Online (in its previous incarnation as Office Web Apps) has been free to public since 2010.
Maybe the OP is a talented marketer at Microsoft
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I got a license for home use from my company for a one time payment of under $10. So millions of people probably have a deal that's even better than what you're asking for.
Same here. But I don't even use it and default to LibreOffice all the time (I only use Linux nowadays).
Opposite case for me. In the past, anytime I had to use Libre/OpenOffice for more than 15 minutes made me feel like blowing my brains out.
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#66I can almost use this on my phone...but since I can not paste my highly randomized password, from my password database, into their website. Why not? I don't know, I think paste is disabled by Javascript. Who the hell would think that is a good idea?
I can't stand it when sites do that (blocking paste) but I don't think that is what's happening here. It's just their placeholder text "Password" that is messing things up. Try long-pressing just on the left of the 'P' of the placeholder. That worked for me after a few tries (on Android).
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#67Free as in beer, not as in free speech and still complete format lock in?
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#68According to Wikipedia " rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Online> , Office Online (in its previous incarnation as Office Web Apps) has been free to public since 2010.
The title is still technically correct. The best kind of correct.
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#69Holy cow, this works on Ubuntu.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
They make so much money off office. We buy licenses for almost every person at the company just because there's no equivalent to excel. Only windows boxes in our office are the finance guys who can't adapt to excel on the Mac.
Excel really has no equal, unfortunately.
Yup. Excel is the best IT requirement documentation tool, with its auto-filter and indentation (using columns)
Full traceability too. Just look at your emails in Outlook, and tie 'em all together.