How is that the fault of the software. What is it about the software, that it is too sophisticated/complex for the average user? I know I haven't even scratched the surface of the programs poterntial. But that is my fault, not the softwares. Right now it does everthing I want it do do. Is it the software that has you upset or us dinasours?
We are going in circles, I have said already why I dislike it. I can see that you like it, so there it is for you to use it. There is no point to argue about it.
Yea that must be it. Number one spreadsheet software in the world for decades. Only because ... they don't know better.
People do not look for anything else when they have something working for them, that doesn't mean that is the best option for them, they just don't bother to look for anything else when something does the job. If you get to see more options you wouldn't use Excel, you use it because you don't know anything else or didn't bother to look for an improvement.
Notice that this article is from 2017 https://www.removepaywall.com/searc...g-excel-finance-chiefs-tell-staffs-1511346601
VBA and Excel allowed me to make real-time charting software, and with a free brokerage API. Hard to beat that.
I have no MS software, I use googlesheets. Never had a problem with Sheets, it's free, on cloud, not on HDD. Formulas mostly identical to Excel.
The narrative skips over Multiplan as if it didn't exist. In 1983 I was there when a family member took shipment of a machine that shipped with Microsoft's first spreadsheet, Multiplan, on a 5.25" floppy disk, introduced in 1982 first for 8-bit computers running CP/M. Multiplan was better than Visicalc, imo, looking back. It pushed the limit of 8 bit systems. When asked if he had any regrets, Bill Gates is said to have said he regrets putting so much development into Multiplan at the tail end of the 8 bit era. This focus allowed Lotus to leapfrog over by focusing on the 16 bit bus/chips to get the most out of those. With that head start, Microsoft completely lost out on that market and decided not to compete. Instead, Gates decided to develop the next era of spreadsheets that exploited Windows and the 32 bit chips as soon as those chips came out 1985/86. It's speculated that the lesson Gates learned on the Lotus leapfrog helped him capture the spreadsheet market thereafter by leapfrogging over Lotus. Excel was, and still might be, backward compatible with Multiplan if/when you "convert" a sheet of formulas to .silk format, consumable by Multiplan. If it doesn't rely on other sheets, and if the formulas are legacy enough, it'll run. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan