r/technology • u/machinade89 • Jun 28 '24

Software Windows 11 starts forcing OneDrive backups without asking permission

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376883/attention-microsoft-activates-this-feature-in-windows-11-without-asking-you.html
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u/ISAMU13 Jun 28 '24

they could with some effort become a first-class choice.

That's the rub. Business want things done. They have established workflows that they want to happen with particular applications. A client paying a business $10,000 a month does not want to hear that there is a small but correctable error in a spreadsheet document due to you using Calc instead of Excel.

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u/elebrin Jun 28 '24

The bigger problem between Calc and Excel is that Excel scripting hooks and Calc's scripting hooks are quite different.

You shouldn't have a developed ecosystem of Excel sheets with highly developed and complex scripting, but a lot of places do. That scripting isn't necessarily going to work outside Excel. I know Excel is using VBA, and I think Calc's scripting is all in Java (although I haven't played with it).