QuickOffice Will Be Discontinued
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Not that I’m too fussed; I never edit documents on mobile anyway. I use styles often, and neither Quickoffice nor Docs on Android support styles (e.g. header styles).
It's really appalling how backwards Microsoft's approach to security is, a real nightmare.
Alternative scenario: 1)Log in->2)fail->3)asks for number->4) click on other options->5)support page->6)ask to contact support->back to 1)->2)fail->and on an on
It's an infinite loop, there's no solution. They fucked this up pretty badly, I really wouldn't risk having a business account with Microsoft. Imagine you work on a spreadsheet for days and then this happens.
I'd bet you could find a huge market for something with an interface like Excel but easily able to consistently parse/transform/create new tables.
Need to build a massive batch script to delete a load of specific files? You can use Excel and "concatenate" to build your batch file.
Need to make a contacts list for your grandma, with clickable hyperlinks for Skype? Excel has you covered.
Need to work out the expected electricity bill from the meter reading and the tariff listed on the website, then work out how much each person in the household should contribute? Excel will do just fine.
Stock list? Piece of piss.
You can even make a pie chart that looks like Pacman.
While it's often not the best tool for the job, it's often the most flexible tool that's easy to use that will get the job done. I've just taught an 86-year-old lady how to use spreadsheets, covering basic formulas, advanced filtering and searching etc. It's intuitive and provides a good return for the learning curve.
However, I also use LaTeX when seriously trying to write documents, so I'm probably an outlier.
Context: I've spent the last 4 years or so in law school or as a lawyer. It's a field where people are usually picky about formatting, citations, and cross-references, but aren't willing to learn something like LaTeX.
There is also: SoftMaker Office, Kingsoft Office, Docs To Go, Polaris Office, and Microsoft Office.
All of those, IIRC, are non-cloud-based.
So in the mobile/Android space, at least, it would appear that there is indeed a lot of interest still.
I'm not sure what that means exactly and the numbers certainly encompass more than companies using Drive as a replacement of Office, but I found them suprisingly high. He also mentions a bit before that Drive now has 190 millions 30-day active users.
It only takes one person doing something on a compromised internet connection (Captive portals that replace certificates, etc, etc) for your "confidential" information to be leaked.
(Note: if said cloud storage does encryption on top of HTTPS and/or proper certificate pinning (although this can cause other issues), this may not be the case. But that is not true too often, for example with web interfaces.)
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