Tea to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agoGoogle give a 71% discount to US federal agencies for Workspace, as it looks to capitalize on the Trump administration's cost-cutting push.www.gsa.govexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down14
arrow-up1225arrow-down1external-linkGoogle give a 71% discount to US federal agencies for Workspace, as it looks to capitalize on the Trump administration's cost-cutting push.www.gsa.govTea to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-square@shalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish14•2 months agoThe government will still have to pay to use Excel. Too much shit will break, you can’t just flip an .xlxs into another program.
minus-square@taladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish9•2 months agoWhich sounds like an excellent reason to go through the pain once and replace Excel with something better standardized.
minus-square@valkyre09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•2 months agoI work for an MSP. I can assure you, those who believe they need excel to do their job are willing to die on that hill, and take the whole department with them
minus-square@taladar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoMight be less pain in the long term to just let them die on that hill then and replace them when they are gone along with Excel.
minus-square@oakward@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoI do not really work with excel beyond the basics. Why can’t free solutions like libre office and open office replace excel?
minus-square@pineapplepizza@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoBecause MS made non standard functions to force lockin. You can’t even go from desktop app to web versions of excel without breaking things
minus-square@SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoThe government should just use libre office
The government will still have to pay to use Excel. Too much shit will break, you can’t just flip an .xlxs into another program.
Which sounds like an excellent reason to go through the pain once and replace Excel with something better standardized.
I work for an MSP. I can assure you, those who believe they need excel to do their job are willing to die on that hill, and take the whole department with them
Might be less pain in the long term to just let them die on that hill then and replace them when they are gone along with Excel.
I do not really work with excel beyond the basics. Why can’t free solutions like libre office and open office replace excel?
Because MS made non standard functions to force lockin. You can’t even go from desktop app to web versions of excel without breaking things
The government should just use libre office