investment banking is unbelievably hard on the office software package. excel models are regularly 10MB+ with hundreds of legacy defined functions and features surviving in xls as sheets are freely plagiarized from previous work. models often have thousands of links, many of which are deprecated. i think i have 6+ plugins in excel: bloomberg, thomson reuters, capitaliq, dealmaven.. each increasing the footprint. powerpoint suffers too, with graphics-heavy presentations also pushing 10MB+. third-party plugins allow us to 'link' graphics from excel into powerpoint..
it's all rather dirty from my perspective. msoffice suxx
it's all rather dirty from my perspective. msoffice suxx
Get out while you can. :o
you would think one of MS's biggest products would be easy to deploy at an enterprise level. nope, the way they suggest doing it via a batch job. ridiculous! it works though.
Unrelated, but microsoft is issuing its first public debt this week -- usd 3.75B in 5y 10y and 30y notes. I think they at going to buy sap
I have to use Outlook 2003 at work :-(
It's almost impossible to send a proper email, or read email, or format email, or do just about anything else with email...
Outlook 2007 is even worse ...
I would rather use carrier pigeons.
It's almost impossible to send a proper email, or read email, or format email, or do just about anything else with email...
Outlook 2007 is even worse ...
I would rather use carrier pigeons.
i vote to replace Word and Excel with plain text and a database.
i think the latest msoffice (2007) deals with formats better (xml iirc)