The announcements says the discontinuation is because of “the integration of Quickoffice into the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps”. But I don’t see any sign of this integration. With the latest Docs app, I can’t open a .docx file from my Google Drive; only Document Viewer and Quickoffice can open it.
Not that I’m too fussed; I never edit documents on mobile anyway. I use styles often, and neither Quickoffice nor Docs on Android support styles (e.g. header styles).
I believe they announced this integration at Google I/O. When you get an office document as an attachment, you no longer have to download it or import it into Docs. You would be able to open, edit, and save it in the same office format right from Docs/Sheets/Slides.
Not really too surprised seeing that Google Drive/Docs/etc. now allows MS Office file editing. Glad to see that I will gain a free spot in my app drawer now that the Drive apps for editing are all separate.
I'm not sure what that means exactly and the numbers certainly encompass more than companies using Drive as a replacement of Office, but I found them suprisingly high. He also mentions a bit before that Drive now has 190 millions 30-day active users.
30-day active users is somewhat problematic for a service like Drive. I am accessing(reviewing) on weekly basis some docs that other people have uploaded to Drive and shared with me. So I'm considered "active" user while I don't actively using it.
I'v heard that businesses, the primary users of document/spreedsheet/presetation editor software are totally okay to put their confidential information in cloud storage format.
It only takes one person doing something on a compromised internet connection (Captive portals that replace certificates, etc, etc) for your "confidential" information to be leaked.
(Note: if said cloud storage does encryption on top of HTTPS and/or proper certificate pinning (although this can cause other issues), this may not be the case. But that is not true too often, for example with web interfaces.)
BASF, probably one of the largest targets for corporate espionage in Germany, is migrating all employees to Office 365. I suppose their data will be completely safe in Microsoft's hands, because the contract says so ;-)
Considering how successful Google, Microsoft, and others have been getting been in getting enterprises to buy into cloud-hosted solutions, for email and other functions that handle key business information, that's clearly a lot more true than your sarcasm suggests.
I hear there's a company out in Redmond that's making a lot of ever increasing money every quarter in the space as reflected in their financial earnings. It's interesting to hear that Google has now won that space though.
I know this isn't the be avenue for this, but I haven't been able to find help online anywhere. I've been locked for months out of my outlook email address. Every time I try to log in, it says it's been blocked and they need to send me a verification code on my phone number. Now, I don't trust Microsoft with my phone number but there doesn't seem to be another way to get this verification code. Someone knows how can I solve this, or even why they locked me out for no reason and now want my number at all costs?
Google works the same way for password recovery and blocking. There's basically zero support for any free product. And barely any (if any) support for their paid products.
The general scheme is surely the same, but here we're talking about an implementation problem, and Microsoft has an history of them. Here's basically what happens:
1)Log in->2)fail->3)asks for number->4)insert number->back to 2)
Alternative scenario:
1)Log in->2)fail->3)asks for number->4) click on other options->5)support page->6)ask to contact support->back to 1)->2)fail->and on an on
It's an infinite loop, there's no solution. They fucked this up pretty badly, I really wouldn't risk having a business account with Microsoft. Imagine you work on a spreadsheet for days and then this happens.
When your account is blocked for some reason (spamming report, automatic detection of nude pictures, invalid report of some abuse, etc), you have no recourse with either Microsoft or Google. A few people (connected journalists) have been able to make contact within Google and regain access within 7-14 days, though. For everyone else, consider all your stuff gone and your account no longer available.
I'm a software dev so I don't really have a need for Excel, but from what I've seen/heard from my friends in business and accounting, Excel is unparalleled in the spreadsheet game. Especially when it comes to advanced features like macros and forumlas.
As much as I hate the rest of Office, I have to agree that Excel is way ahead of any other spreadsheet software I've ever used. That's not to say it couldn't be dislodged by something better - there's definitely a niche without a decent solution somewhere between an Excel sheet loaded with convoluted VLOOKUPs and a writing something custom with an SQL interface to a database.
I'd bet you could find a huge market for something with an interface like Excel but easily able to consistently parse/transform/create new tables.
Excel gives non-programmers a Swiss Army Knife for dealing with numbers and/or lists. It's not as math as Mathmatica or Mathcad, it's not as databasey as SQL but for most people it's more than enough. It's enough for most people most of the time.
Need to build a massive batch script to delete a load of specific files? You can use Excel and "concatenate" to build your batch file.
Need to make a contacts list for your grandma, with clickable hyperlinks for Skype? Excel has you covered.
Need to work out the expected electricity bill from the meter reading and the tariff listed on the website, then work out how much each person in the household should contribute? Excel will do just fine.
Stock list? Piece of piss.
You can even make a pie chart that looks like Pacman.
While it's often not the best tool for the job, it's often the most flexible tool that's easy to use that will get the job done. I've just taught an 86-year-old lady how to use spreadsheets, covering basic formulas, advanced filtering and searching etc. It's intuitive and provides a good return for the learning curve.
gnumeric is excellent. ive seen far to many people trying to use a spreadsheet like a general document processor. just use a spreadsheet for what it's good at doing: operating on columns (or rows) of numbers!
Hey there. 20 year old. Office is pretty good for writing stuff, and I prefer the power I get with it over something like Google Docs. Additionally, most people I know prefer Office over Google Docs.
However, I also use LaTeX when seriously trying to write documents, so I'm probably an outlier.
Under 30. The latest Office is actually pretty good. I prefer Google Docs for quick collaborative brainstorming, but for pretty much everything else, Office beats the pants off of Google Docs, QuickOffice, and Open/LibreOffice.
Context: I've spent the last 4 years or so in law school or as a lawyer. It's a field where people are usually picky about formatting, citations, and cross-references, but aren't willing to learn something like LaTeX.
Love using Excel and will switch to a PC whenever I'm building a more complicated model. The Mac version is still much slower and Google Sheets is painful to use for anything other than simple tables.
Not that I’m too fussed; I never edit documents on mobile anyway. I use styles often, and neither Quickoffice nor Docs on Android support styles (e.g. header styles).