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Excel. There is no other software that can currently fill excel’s role in business. It’s the best at what it does and what it does is usually very important. Unfortunately.



Excel is the driver for small businesses and individual departments. SharePoint is what keeps large businesses committed to Windows.


Excel runs just fine on Macs, though, so that only explains "why not Linux?", not "why Windows?"


The situation might have changed since I last used Excel on Mac, but in 2018, the "Excel" on Mac barely resembled the Excel on Windows. Many obvious and useful features were missing.


No longer. Everything is there. Just switched work machines to Mac from Win


Not everything is there. There are still important limitations: https://spreadsheeto.com/mac-vs-windows/


My guess is that the fact you can buy about two to three cheap Dell desktop machines for the price of one Mac probably factors quite heavily into the equation.


It definitely does not run “just fine”. It’s passable at best.


Gnumeric, Libreoffice, Google Sheets, Zoho...

There are plenty of sufficient replacements for Excel if organizations are willing to work with other tools


If you’re only doing vacation travel planning, sure. But there’s a long tail of advanced functionality used across all kinds of industries (with plugins upon plugins) that are most certainly not even close to being supported by any of the options proposed.




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