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Looking at what they're doing with Outlook I'd bet money that they intend to replace the desktop version of Excel with the web version sooner or later.

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I agree but expect that Excel will be the very last app of the suite that they make web-only. Excel heads like my wife absolutely hate the web version.

A lot of people in finance are Excel heads and hate the web version. And they have a lot of money to throw around, surely Microsoft cares about them.

I really don't see them killing the desktop version.

They are killing the deskrop version with sharepoint.

Sharepoint and web-shared files make it very difficult to link spreadsheets between each other, even one way around.

In theory it works, in practice it doesnt. (PowerQuery is an inconvenient stopgap to simple links)

I could see the prices going up to Bloomberg-terminal level, though, and everybody normal having to settle for Excel 365.

> Excel heads like my wife absolutely hate the web version.

Have her try Excel 2010 or 2007 running on Wine (whether using WSL or natively)

For people who want their spreadsheet offline, it's wonderful: fast and stable.

This is good news. I did not know this.

That's got to be the death-knell for Excel. It might be better in every conceivable way but going web-only only makes Sheets look more attractive to the people doing the buying. And you can run JS in your Sheets right now.

I dread this day greatly, but it's definitely coming.

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