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$16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet. It hasn’t gone well
It's just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP
Software10 Mar 2025 | 83
Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year
More senior than Windows itself, and still runs the world
Applications22 Oct 2024 | 108
Python in Excel goes live – but only for certain Windows users
Mac and Android loyals: you can look, but no calculation for now
Applications18 Sep 2024 | 23
Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed in 48 hours
On Call I'm a Mac. I'm a PC. You're both annoying me
Software09 Aug 2024 | 114
Anaconda's Python-for-Excel escapes Azure Cloud, heads for your PC
Badger, badger, badger your CIO to let you use this, perhaps
Applications05 Aug 2024 | 6
You know what spreadsheets need? LLMs, says Microsoft
Excel-lent, Smithers, have we fired accounting yet?
Software16 Jul 2024 | 40
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Building a 16-bit CPU in a spreadsheet is Excel-lent engineering
But can it run Doom?
Bootnotes02 Feb 2024 | 23
User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work
On Call When is a spreadsheet not a spreadsheet?
Software24 Nov 2023 | 140
Home of the world's longest pleasure pier joins public sector leak club
Southend-on-Sea Council unwittingly exposed sensitive records of more than 2,000 staff for five months
Public Sector06 Nov 2023 | 26
Cybercrooks amp up attacks via macro-enabled XLL files
Neither Excel nor PowerPoint safe as baddies continue to find ways around protections
Research01 Nov 2023 | 6
It is 2023 and Excel's reign of date terror might finally be at an end
Data scientists to rejoice as spreadsheet's 'helpfulness' can be curbed
Software23 Oct 2023 | 56
Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle
Mangled spreadsheets mean government was asleep on the job and should be held to account
Personal Tech20 Oct 2023 | 40
Excel Hell II: If the sickness can't be fixed, it must be contained
Opinion Microsoft's Steve Ballmer once called open source a cancer. Today's diagnosis points to a different cause
Software16 Oct 2023 | 123
Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'
Exclusive Mangled mismatch of formats, macros, and VLOOKUP practice hits wannabe anesthetists
Software12 Oct 2023 | 189
Building Excel-like UI for Uber's China ops exposed Microsoft calculation quirks
Updated Developer recounts rideshare outfitattempts to crack the Middle Kingdom market
Applications19 Sep 2023 | 28
Microsoft teases Python scripting in Excel
Snakes on a dataframe
Applications22 Aug 2023 | 64
Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy
Next time you mess up a spreadsheet, take heart that you didn't destroy someone's political hopes and dreams
Offbeat06 Jun 2023 | 30
Some Windows users say these 32-bit apps have forgotten how to save
Microsoft seems to have fixed update glitch for all OS versions but latest W11
OSes25 May 2023 | 6
Microsoft's Garage band offers album of experimental Excel jazz
For those who think spreadsheet app isn't wild enough, try some of these potential future widgets
Applications12 Apr 2023 | 11
Microsoft boffins contemplate equipping Excel with AI
Go on, bring on the FLAMEs
AI + ML04 Feb 2023 | 49
Microsoft closes another door to attackers by blocking Excel XLL files from the internet
More of them used by baddies since Redmond blocked VBA macros
Research25 Jan 2023 | 6
Microsoft took its macros and went home, so miscreants turned to Windows LNK files
Adapt or die
Research23 Jan 2023 | 6
Cisco’s Talos security bods predict new wave of Excel Hell
Criminals have noticed that spreadsheet's XLL files add custom functionality - including malware
Security21 Dec 2022 | 16
Excel's comedy of errors needs a new script, not new scripting
Opinion Microsoft reanimates the wrong corpse
Applications20 Sep 2022 | 110
Automating Excel tasks to come to Windows and Mac
Not just for the web anymore: Microsoft Office Scripts coming for the macro-managers among us
Applications13 Sep 2022 | 42
Excel @ mentions approach general availability on the desktop
@CEO, that macro looks sus, amirite?
Applications17 Aug 2022 | 41
There can be only one... Microsoft Excel Champion
Welcome to the world of extreme modeling, techie style. How's your day going?
Offbeat11 Aug 2022 | 32
'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government
Exclusive Influencing billions in spending, the Cabinet Office will keep tabs on Whitehall with… a spreadsheet?!?
Software21 Jan 2022 | 124
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