Beta?
Microsoft is brining "Vibe Working" to MS Office, with agentic AI features that let you perform complex tasks in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint without necessarily... knowing how to do those things. What could possibly go wrong? https://www.theverge.com/news/787076/microsoft-office-agent-mode-office-agent-anthropic-models #AI #Microsoft #Copilot #MSOffice #Excel #PowerPoint #VibeWorking
Dario Castañé 🏴☠️⁂
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A frigging spreadsheet editor in Go!
At the after conference for Fyne Conf, a member of the community wanted to show us what he "toyed" with for a few weeks/months. It seems nobody there knew him.
After passively listening to everybody chatting, he decided to show it.
And he DELIVERED. He implemented some kind of clone of Excel, with cell/column/row merging, text bleeding over next cell on the same line, etc.
INCREDIBLE WORK.
And, he asked humbly: "do you think people might find that useful?".
- "I don't know dude, you just implemented one of the hardest/most complex software on Earth. I bet people would be interested. I know I am"
It's incredible the amount of hidden talent we have that don't even think they made something crazy.
Anyway, here is a screenshot of a spreadsheet with all the quirks and stuff that Excel does. It's so IMPRESSIVE!
A frigging spreadsheet editor in Go!
At the after conference for Fyne Conf, a member of the community wanted to show us what he "toyed" with for a few weeks/months. It seems nobody there knew him.
After passively listening to everybody chatting, he decided to show it.
And he DELIVERED. He implemented some kind of clone of Excel, with cell/column/row merging, text bleeding over next cell on the same line, etc.
INCREDIBLE WORK.
And, he asked humbly: "do you think people might find that useful?".
- "I don't know dude, you just implemented one of the hardest/most complex software on Earth. I bet people would be interested. I know I am"
It's incredible the amount of hidden talent we have that don't even think they made something crazy.
Anyway, here is a screenshot of a spreadsheet with all the quirks and stuff that Excel does. It's so IMPRESSIVE!
alcinnz
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@DarvenDissek @sebsauvage The fun part is that #QDOS stood for "Quick and Dirty Operating System" and was a one-person project by somebody who built a CP/M alternative by himself.
#Microsoft bought it for small money, relabeled it as #MSDOS and made their first Millions with it.
Furthermore: #Windows was a rip-off from macOS. And #WindowsNT was a dirty hit in the back while MS was (co-)developing #OS2 for IBM.
Most people don't even know about #Excel and (partly) #Word being a 3rd-party software bought by MS.
The main contribution by MS was not as a software developing company. Their core competence was taking money for something that was for free and widely shared and improved by all sorts of people before. They invented proprietary software, software licenses and mandatory software bundles with hardware with no option not to pay for it.
Whatever software decisions were made on top, were mostly really poor decisions IMO.
@DarvenDissek @sebsauvage The fun part is that #QDOS stood for "Quick and Dirty Operating System" and was a one-person project by somebody who built a CP/M alternative by himself.
#Microsoft bought it for small money, relabeled it as #MSDOS and made their first Millions with it.
Furthermore: #Windows was a rip-off from macOS. And #WindowsNT was a dirty hit in the back while MS was (co-)developing #OS2 for IBM.
Most people don't even know about #Excel and (partly) #Word being a 3rd-party software bought by MS.
The main contribution by MS was not as a software developing company. Their core competence was taking money for something that was for free and widely shared and improved by all sorts of people before. They invented proprietary software, software licenses and mandatory software bundles with hardware with no option not to pay for it.
Whatever software decisions were made on top, were mostly really poor decisions IMO.
Aral Balkan
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Image from @moira. Best response comment I've seen: "Incredible. After a century of investment and iteration and development, we’ve finally managed to make a computer that can’t do math."
Image from @moira. Best response comment I've seen: "Incredible. After a century of investment and iteration and development, we’ve finally managed to make a computer that can’t do math."
Greg Lloyd
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Y'all, because there is no escaping the dada reality we all apparently inhabit, #Microsoft has added #LLM to #Excel, except it hallucinates and can make stuff up, so they say you shouldn't use it in cases where you need your spreadsheet to be, ya know...accurate.
Or as they put it: “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT “can give incorrect responses.”
In the name of Ada Lovelace, I curse this idiocy to return the techbro's cranium from which this sprang with the force of Clippy asking to help.
Article about (LLM calling itself) #AI in Excel:
https://www.theverge.com/news/761338/microsoft-excel-ai-copilot-spreadsheet-cell-filling
From @TechDesk : MS Support Docs on how to disable Copilot
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-copilot-in-microsoft-365-apps-bc7e530b-152d-4123-8e78-edc06f8b85f1
h/t to Flipboard for finding the Verge article first too.
Y'all, because there is no escaping the dada reality we all apparently inhabit, #Microsoft has added #LLM to #Excel, except it hallucinates and can make stuff up, so they say you shouldn't use it in cases where you need your spreadsheet to be, ya know...accurate.
Or as they put it: “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT “can give incorrect responses.”
In the name of Ada Lovelace, I curse this idiocy to return the techbro's cranium from which this sprang with the force of Clippy asking to help.
Article about (LLM calling itself) #AI in Excel:
https://www.theverge.com/news/761338/microsoft-excel-ai-copilot-spreadsheet-cell-filling
From @TechDesk : MS Support Docs on how to disable Copilot
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-copilot-in-microsoft-365-apps-bc7e530b-152d-4123-8e78-edc06f8b85f1
h/t to Flipboard for finding the Verge article first too.
100 years ago I created a Crosstitch project using photos of baby Rugrats using Excel! https://mstdn.social/@oetgrunnen/114959737577446834
I just remembered I have a photograph of it. it was originally a pillow but I recently had it framed for my daughter/grandkids.
GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT!!!! The next version of Excel will have auto-updating pivot tables!!!
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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]
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Tonight, I'm just sorting through my latest retro downloads... mostly stuff I found on the Internet Archive.
And... "Holy cow!" This must be the earliest version of "Microsoft Office" I've ever seen! "WIN OFFICE 1.00". Everything's on 5.25inch disks and it doesn't even have a combined SETUP.EXE yet. You just pick what you want and then you're being thrown into a full-screen DOS session to go through the setup process. It features "Word 1.1", "Excel 2.0d" and "PowerPoint 2.00". This is fun!.. albeit in a strange way.
Source:
https://archive.org/details/microsoft-office-1.0-for-windows-1.0-1990-09-english-5.25-1.2-mb
#RetroComputing#Microsoft#Office#Word#Excel#PowerPoint#Retro #90s#Win3x
Microsoft Office Setup v1.00 for Windows 3.x after installing Word
Microsoft WORD SETUP v1.1
Microsoft Office Setup v1.00 for Windows 3.x
Microsoft Office for Windows v1.00 - Box Scan
Tonight, I'm just sorting through my latest retro downloads... mostly stuff I found on the Internet Archive.
And... "Holy cow!" This must be the earliest version of "Microsoft Office" I've ever seen! "WIN OFFICE 1.00". Everything's on 5.25inch disks and it doesn't even have a combined SETUP.EXE yet. You just pick what you want and then you're being thrown into a full-screen DOS session to go through the setup process. It features "Word 1.1", "Excel 2.0d" and "PowerPoint 2.00". This is fun!.. albeit in a strange way.
Source:
https://archive.org/details/microsoft-office-1.0-for-windows-1.0-1990-09-english-5.25-1.2-mb
#RetroComputing#Microsoft#Office#Word#Excel#PowerPoint#Retro #90s#Win3x
Microsoft Office Setup v1.00 for Windows 3.x after installing Word
Microsoft WORD SETUP v1.1
Microsoft Office Setup v1.00 for Windows 3.x
Microsoft Office for Windows v1.00 - Box Scan
The oldest Excel version I ever installed. Excel 2.0 from 14 x 5.25" 360K floppy disks. From 1987. Running on Windows/386 2.11. Yes, it's a slow monday at the office.
