Post #3323891
2026-06-15 04:36 UTC
Holy fuck, I despise translated Excel with passion. That’s a crime against humanity and the dumbest thing Microsoft ever did - and that’s a stratosphere-level high bar already.
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@chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2026-06-15 05:25
I kinda get it where MS is coming from with this decision, but I don’t approve of it at all. They want to be more user friendly with all audiences, so that they can sell excel to small farmers in France, who definitely don’t speak a word of English. I guess that attitude should tell you that doing serious calculations wasn’t the main goal here, even though nearly everyone is using Excel that way. This application is a victim of its widespread success. People make some pretty intense things with it that definitely call for switching to Python, R, C#, fortran or whatever. Because of that, serious professionals can’t avoid it any more. They can’t just treat it as a fun little toy it really is.