UK children's charity says goodbye to Excel
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| Cognos TM1 will house the charity's budgeting and financial planning data
| currently held on 2,000 Excel spreadsheets.
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http://www.computerbusinessreview.com/article_news.asp?guid=98CC4FA6-BE3D-487F-B5C2-CAAE1489A516
It wasn't doing the maths correctly anyway.
Additionally, Microsoft, being the greedy corporating always in need to inflate
revenue and please investors, suddenly ceased to give Office to UK charities.
That happened months ago. Their data is now locked in and Microsoft demands
big money. It's all somewhere in The Register... Microsoft 'helped'
charities... getting 'addicted' (locked in)... later it came to 'collect'
(references below).
Related:
Microsoft Excel fails math test
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| Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 spreadsheet program is going to have to relearn
| part of its multiplication table.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_excel_bug
Microsoft: Excel Bug Doesn't Add Up
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| If you've been depending on your Microsoft Excel software to do your number
| crunching for you, you might want to grab a calculator and review your
| spreadsheets before you send the document out the door. That's because the
| latest version of Excel is housing bugs that are dead set on ruining your
| reports.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070927/tc_nf/55613
[OOXML] Mathematically Incorrect
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| So when it comes to comparing MSOOXML and ODF v1.0 on the basis of the
| inclusion of "Formula Definitions", it becomes clear that the anti-ODF folk
| have not much to shout about. In fact MSOOXML's "Formula Definition" is
| deficient and inaccurate.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/07/mathematically-.html
OOXML: The Formula for Failure
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| As I've shown, in the rush to write a 6,000 page standard in less than a
| year, Ecma dropped the ball. OOXML's spreadsheet formula is worse than
| missing. It has incorrect formulas that, if implemented according to the
| standard may cause loss of life, property and capital. This standard is
| seriously messed up. And shame on all those who praised and continue to
| praise the OOXML formula specification without actually reading it.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/formula-for-failure.html
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
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