[dba-Tech] google sheets vs excel

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi All:

My SiL uses Apple consistently. They wear out as all computer products do. His actual work is with Linux, he just uses the Apple terminal emulator so when he says he works on an Apple, technically he is correct but practical he is not. ;-)

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 7:41:41 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] google sheets vs excel

hardly... Apple marketing is "It just Werks" and the fact is... it does ;)
lol
-Francisco <http://twitter.com/seecoolguy>




On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 3:31 PM John Bartow via dba-Tech <
dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:

> For personal use. Does that make it better? What I see is continually
> incompetent Microsoft marketing and much more competent Google marketing.
> FI - There was a recent security info article concerning Gmail and
> O365mail being targeted for attacks against their IMAP protocols. There was
> reportedly a 44% success rate.
>
> I never once heard the article repeated with Gmail involved, it was always
> mentioning O365. And while Gmail users had to use IMAP in the past,
> honestly WTF do you have IMAP turned on with O365?! Every device in the
> last decade supports Exchange protocol. MS Marketing = crap. Google fanboy
> marketing = Mac fanboy marketing of old.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of
> fhtapia at gmail.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2019 3:50 PM
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> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] google sheets vs excel
>
> Change is hard for lots of people and the one glaring thing that google
> sheets has over Microsoft is the offer of free use.  I think you still need
> a license last time I checked to use excel 365 online. There was a free
> trial but that’s hardly the same thing as google’s Free offering.
>
> Still I rather use what’s available and I’m still and excel guy because
> work pays for 365. For all my personal stuff I use apple’s numbers app or
> Google’s sheets.
>
> Simple enough everywhere.
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:21 PM Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On 5/8/2019 0:24, John Bartow via dba-Tech wrote:
> > > Office 365 works on every device I've ever tried it on even a
> > Chromebook. So it has little to do with Windows anymore. :-D
> > >
> > > I use both. I'm not an Excel fanboy but I think the statement is
> > > just
> > more fanboy marketing.
> >
> > So preferring googlesheets indicates fanboyism, preferring excel
> > doesn't, odd.
> >
> > PB
> >
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> > > From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of
> > Peter Brawley
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2019 6:51 PM
> > > To: John Bartow via dba-Tech <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] google sheets vs excel
> > >
> > > On 5/7/2019 13:49, John Bartow via dba-Tech wrote:
> > >> Googleheads
> > > WindowsHeads
> > >
> > > PB
> > >
> > > -----
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of
> > Peter Brawley
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2019 1:25 PM
> > >> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <
> > dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > >> Subject: [dba-Tech] google sheets vs excel
> > >>
> > >>
> > https://qz.com/1611622/google-sheets-is-now-better-than-microsoft-exce
> > l-for-common-tasks/
> > >>
> > >> PB
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