LibreOffice blasts Microsoft for putting "commercial interests" over everything(neowin.net)
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LibreOffice blasts Microsoft for putting "commercial interests" over everything
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I think it does not make sense even for general spreadsheet use; it would be better to specify the type explicitly. (I also think a "zoned spreadsheet" would be better, although sometimes compatibility might still be needed with existing spreadsheets so a zoned spreadsheet cannot be the only implementation.)
Ok, sure. Now open this .csv
Do you really think that auto converting MARCH1 to a date even helped anybody? Who is writing dates like this?
The option to turn off the auto conversion stuff, should have been shipped way before 2023.
That's not really a counter argument to what was said. Daoboy said (and he's right!) that MS hasn't done anything because the behavior impacts very few users, not because it benefits very many users.
It's also less helpful because it's not very deterministic. A year is a short time and when it rolls over it will pick the current year even when you may have wanted last year.
I do from time to time, mostly for home budgets. I'm surprised every time it works.
Yes. Microsoft is a company that is driven by its "commercial interest". That is true. Well done.
To be fair, this really is a niche issue. For all that I agree with the frustration for Microsoft's terrible behavior in so many other respects, it's hard to fault them for not being immediately responsive to something like this.