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Microsoft alternative: Nextcloud and Ionos develop open-source ‘Euro-Office’ (www.heise.de)
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Nextcloud, Ionos and other partners are developing an open-source office suite under the project name „Euro-Office“ as an alternative to the market-dominant Microsoft Office.

The two partners are not starting from scratch, but have forked the components of OnlyOffice available as open-source code and want to build on them. In the summer, the software is then intended to replace the previous office component Collabora in Nextcloud and the Ionos Nextcloud Workspace. A ‘technical preview’ is already available on GitHub.

While this is a good news, I think they should move from github, you know microslop copilot..

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[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The fact that you can't make real tables renders the software completely unusable. Tables are used in pretty much every spreadsheet.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think you might be thinking of databases… Access (barf), not Excel.

I do think databases and tables are a useful thing but most database systems require over-specifying fields via esoteric “column types” while spreadsheets underspecify them via formatting (and extremely limited formatting at that)

Some happy medium must exist out there, but I haven’t seen it. Notion and Google Docs (Format /Convert to Table) approach this but don’t quite get there.

[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

No, definitely thinking specifically of data tables in excel.