Taking on Excel, and Winning, Sort Of.

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Pass the mustard gas and dog food please ...

... "even as they arguably offer functionality ? and a user experience - that excels over anything that Excel could offer."
Such as? I'd like to see that argument ...
... for it seems to me there is an important lesson for M$ here in the longevity of EXCEL and to some extent VBA.

In the end we are all 'dummies' of sorts, or rather in the final analysis we want to communicate a simple presentation of a topic, however complicated the underlying may be. A few words, a few diagrams and a few numbers will usually do the trick.

One reason I'd say M$ are likely to continue enduring a hard time with Windows is that having released Win(95), Internet Explorer, audio, graphics, video processing and EXCEL ... what else is there left to do?

The answer: speech processing and parallel processing. We're still waiting.

Golfers like their 5 iron - it can be used for lots of different shots. EXCEL is the 5 iron of programs.

I'm keeping a 5 iron in my bag

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