Comment by dismalaf
21 hours ago
> What will Excel users miss by switching?
The ability to use legacy spreadsheets and macros.
Let's be real, Excel self perpetuates by at once being awful but also the thing everyone used to use thus must still use.
Lots of spreadsheet apps better than Excel have come and gone over the years...
MS Office Macros are too easy for untrained users (that think of themselves as power users) to create, and once they grow big enough, it's very hard to port them to other applications. They're the monkey paw of spreadsheets.
VBA and the ability to use Office files with embedded VBA are disabled in many corporations… Some malware in the past used VBA for their attacks and Microsoft never added a proper sandbox.