Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don’t give a fuck for life offtheline

  • bedrooms
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    22 years ago

    I can understand the cloud part. they wanted it work on the web and phones. They do know many businesses don’t want cloud, so I see a good chance they’ll ship it with embedded Python eventually.

    • AatubeOP
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      32 years ago

      Phones can also run Python and web is already a pretty separate version, I don’t see why they can’t only make the web version cloud.

      • HidingCat
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        12 years ago

        Money, what else? Office 365 is a priority and this is an attempt to hasten adoption.

      • bedrooms
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        12 years ago

        At least iPhone apps usually redirect Python tasks to their servers. That’s one reason there are projects like Tensorflow Light.

        • AatubeOP
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          12 years ago

          For instance? All the python apps I’ve downloaded so far seem to function offline.

          • conciselyverbose
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            12 years ago

            You can even get third party libraries, though it’s limited compared to less restrictive environments.

            • AatubeOP
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              12 years ago

              That’s just machine learning which is very resource consuming. It has no relation to your purported case of phones redirecting all python tasks to servers.

              • bedrooms
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                12 years ago

                Okay, I dug more to find out I’m wrong.

                But isn’t ML technology a thing Excel offers with its new Python interface?

                • AatubeOP
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                  12 years ago

                  Not really. I don’t expect them to have a cloud instance running that long.