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Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default — the opt-out toggle is not that easy to find (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

From what I hear from my brother working in a bank, they should be using databases and data querying instead of excel. What excessive excel use leads to, at least in such cases, is awful flimsy practices, certainty and stability.

The financial data and its accumulations run through multiple excel files referencing others. Traceability requirements that they have to guarantee by law are an issue; I wonder if they'll be able to implement them with Excel at all.

Businesses running on Excel is certainly factual. But I have to wonder whether it's necessary of even a good solution for their work.

If they're deep and wide into Excel, I imagine other data tooling would be better. And if they're not, other products like LibreOffice seem viable as direct replacements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's an absolute shit solution but it's being used very widely. And it has certainly led to plenty of fuck ups.