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It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes (defector.com)
submitted 2 days ago by tux0r@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Money quote:

Excel requires some skill to use (to the point where high-level Excel is a competitive sport), and AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large.

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Microsoft Excel is testing a new AI-powered function that can automatically fill cells in your spreadsheets."

Every year, Microsoft gives me more reasons to permanently leave their products.

Unfortunately, due to compatibility with financial and other Windows-only software I still need to run Windows, but I am down to two rigs and it might go down to one in the new year.

[–] Part4@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

A virtual machine running windows, to host just those apps, might be a good step away at this point.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

apparently you should be able to run any windows app with WinApps on linux, but I think they have a bug or something right now because I haven't been able to get it to work.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago

The problem is that they are still Microsoft applications. You can’t say “I’ll leave Microsoft!” and run their software in a Windows simulator anyway. That would be … inaccurate, to say the least.