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> It took something like AirTable to wake the sleeping giants

My employer gives me Lists as part of Office 365. It's one of those things that sounds good as long as you're reading about it and not using it. It's just not a competitor to AirTable. Not that I use AT either, because I'm not going to pay that much for what I'd use it, but Lists is pretty bad. The look and feel makes me think Lists is a Perl CGI app from 2001.

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LOL. Well, Microsoft's "Lists" are Sharepoint Lists underneath. Sharepoint Lists are pretty old, so your comment about Perl/CGI.. well, you're not far off!

I have it too at my workplace, and other than a coat of paint on Sharepoint Lists, I concur, it is not amazing.

I guess I brought it up because it shows Microsoft being driven to do something, but much like Google, falling short of the target. Still, before AirTable and similar things, the giants were generally ignoring this area.

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