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Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products

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296 points mohi-kalantari | 4 comments | 08 Dec 25 16:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.581s | source
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this_user ◴[08 Dec 25 17:12 UTC] No.46194851[source]▶
Microsoft's entire business model for decades has been to shove shoddy products down people's throats. And somehow, they have figured out how to do it too, because otherwise Teams wouldn't be used by anyone.
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1. jeremyjh ◴[08 Dec 25 18:21 UTC] No.46195748[source]▶
Its all about Excel. It really is the best spreadsheet, and everyone knows how to use it. But that comes in an Office bundle that includes Teams. And that is why we must suffer.
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2. SoftTalker ◴[08 Dec 25 19:15 UTC] No.46196378[source]▶
Was certainly the case in the early years of Google Sheets. For me, the gap is entirely closed. I'm willing to believe that Excel still has the better platform for extreme power users but I've done some pretty slick stuff with Google Sheets and that was four or five years ago. It must be even better today (though I'm not currenlty doing much with spreadsheets).
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3. RajT88 ◴[08 Dec 25 19:27 UTC] No.46196510[source]▶
I agree with it, but it's a wild world we live in when the best spreadsheet has default behaviors which will fuck your data pasted into it when you're not paying attention.
4. knollimar ◴[08 Dec 25 19:49 UTC] No.46196735[source]▶
Has google sheets filled out the lambda helper functions yet? If so that could narrow the gap.

Passing around vba based xlsm is really awful, so if google sheets has lambdas they can probably get a lead with google sheets queey language over filter.

Groupby and pivotby are the new excel alternative, but if they filled out lambdas, then does that keave VBA and power query as the only reasons for Excel?