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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (72175)	8/17/2002 10:08:43 AM
From: ProDeath	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Yep, I think Excel is the best thing to ever come out of Redmond, period. However there's nothing about Excel that won't eventually be done better elsewhere, I look forward to its eventual replacement, as I was a Lotus 1-2-3 fan before MS coded Lotus out of their private universe. Change is inherent in all compounded things. This is a good thing. The MS product line is quite stagnant and the only enhancement approach they seem to have any more is to hang more knobs and lights on their products. Word is so festooned with features that I suspect that it is a productivity drain as a result, I see far too much handsomely formatted stuff that could have been handled in a plain text email. PowerPoint is the worst waster of time I know of. I think it's later in the game for MS than you might think. Consider IBM in the late 80s and I think you will have a clearer idea of what MS shall become.

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (72175)	8/17/2002 10:15:18 AM
From: ProDeath	Respond to of 74651

BTW, I think Bill is a sociopath who doesn't much care how he is remembered other than as the winner of the game. He's a good example of a bad generation of Americans. The good news is that they will all die soon. The bad news is that it won't be soon enough.

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (72175)	8/17/2002 10:28:41 AM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

Personally I dislike Excel a lot: 1) It was not as good as Quattro Pro for a very long time. 2) It has a proprietary file format and it's extremely slow to use OLE to remote control it from other programs. This makes Excel a very bad choice for office automation or R&D usage (unlike OpenOffice.org). 3) It's still basically a Multiplan-like spreadsheet, with very few innovations during the last decade. Especially I'd like to see a database table thing inside Excel so that you can do formulas on a variable number of records without leaving the Excel application. As long as they don't innovate Excel, it is doomed to be replaced by no-cost alternatives. 4) It's extremely expensive compared to what you get. Dybdahl.