Re: MS Excel Working As Designed

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:
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Even in 1979, correctly handling dates in 1900 was not a priority.

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Then why allow them at all?
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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.