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Re: MS Excel Working As Designed

From	Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: MS Excel Working As Designed
Date	2025-01-18 14:01 -0600
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On 1/18/25 4:58 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 06:50:53 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:34:43 +0000, Tyrone wrote:
>>
>>> Even in 1979, correctly handling dates in 1900 was not a priority.
>>
>> Then why allow them at all?
>>
>> The Macintosh OS calendar only went as far back as 1904. This quite neatly
>> -- and elegantly -- solved the problem.
> 
> If nothing else, this case illustrates that with Microsoft, as with all
> commercial software, talented programmers are not making the design decisions.
> Rather it is the MBAs who seek to maximize sales that are in charge.  The end
> result, over time, is software that is tailored to the lowest common denominator
> (i.e. junk).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Yes.

And that's why it sells. MS did that with DOS too. MS is a business not 
an R&D institution.

The R&D juice you want to draw from their product does not warrant the 
price they're asking for it. See, I'm again saying the same damn thing 
here. The actual use you get from a car does not warrant the $80k that 
sellers are asking you to pay. You can get that use by paying $1500 for 
a second hand one.

The same thing for a computer. Are they selling it, and that's whatever 
damn computer it happens to be, at a price above $80? They're ripping 
you off. Cause the R&D use you can get from it, the real use, doesn't 
warrant paying anything above it.

Same for Excel or Windows or any product MS has.

I have never bought something from them, new. For same reasons. I won't 
buy a car above $2000 if you hold a shotgun to my head. Cause doing so 
means I'm either Sheep or a crook treating others the same way, and I am 
not Sheep, nor a crook.

The only new MS product that fell in my hands was given to me free of 
charge for something I did for MS, and even that, I sold it a few days 
later dirt cheap and got rid of it. It was a Windows 2000 CD months 
before it became available for public.

Thread

M$ Excel Supreme Stupidity Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-17 15:08 +0000
  Re: M$ Excel Supreme Stupidity Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-17 11:39 -0500
    Re: M$ Excel Supreme Stupidity Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-17 17:20 +0000
    Re: M$ Excel Supreme Stupidity -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-17 15:55 -0500
      Re: M$ Excel Supreme Stupidity Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-17 22:05 +0000
  Re: MS Excel Working As Designed (was: M$ Excel Supreme Stupidity) Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-01-17 21:46 +0000
    Re: MS Excel Working As Designed (was: M$ Excel Supreme Stupidity) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-17 22:49 +0000
    Re: MS Excel Working As Designed (was: M$ Excel Supreme Stupidity) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-17 23:08 +0000
      Re: MS Excel Working As Designed DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-17 18:35 -0500
      Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-01-17 23:37 +0000
        Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-17 23:52 +0000
          Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-01-18 01:00 +0000
            Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-18 02:19 +0000
            Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 09:27 +0000
              Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 10:04 +0000
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 19:45 -0600
              Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 17:20 -0500
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-18 23:21 +0000
            Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-01-18 18:04 +0000
        Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 00:05 +0000
          Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 13:38 -0600
            Re: MS Excel Working As Designed DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-18 16:03 -0500
              Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-19 00:52 +0000
        Re: MS Excel Working As Designed -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-17 21:57 -0500
          Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-01-18 04:34 +0000
            Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-18 06:50 +0000
              Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 10:58 +0000
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 14:01 -0600
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 21:02 +0000
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 16:05 -0600
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 16:27 -0600
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-01-19 00:19 +0000
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 18:34 -0600
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-18 21:12 -0500
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-19 04:35 +0000
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-19 05:58 -0500
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-19 11:02 -0600
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-19 12:18 -0500
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-19 19:32 +0000
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-19 14:37 -0500
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-20 01:48 +0000
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-18 23:16 +0000
                Re: MS Excel Working As Designed Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 16:33 -0500
            Re: MS Excel Working As Designed -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-18 13:57 -0500
  Re: M$ Excel Supreme Stupidity DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-17 18:31 -0500
  Re: M$ Excel Supreme Stupidity Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-18 09:39 +0000
    Re: M$ Excel Supreme Stupidity Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-18 20:00 -0600
      Re: PhysFatFuck's Supreme Delusion DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-20 16:37 -0500

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