[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

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In article <fe0aknFuc11U1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>On 02/06/2018 09:46 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 2/6/2018 2:11 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>> That said, Excel got it wrong.  The spreadsheets I write out display
>>>> properly with Numbers, LibreOffice, Gnumeric and even an app called
>>>> Shheets on my Android tablet.  So, please tell me again. why should I
>>>> use WEENDOZE?
>>>
>>> In general it is a very good thing to test on the same platform
>>> as production.
>>>
>>> If your customers access it via Windows and MS Office, then you should
>>> test with those.
>>>
>>> Not with something that is supposed to do approximately the same.
>>>
>>> Arne
>>>
>> 
>> It's clear, to me, that Brian stated that it's not known what 
>> spreaadsheet product will be used with the files.  Some may use Excel, 
>> others may use another product.  I believe he also stated that the only 
>> people with a problem were Excel users.
>> 
>> Perhaps a tactical suggestion for Brian.  "Know your enemy"
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>> 
>
>In this day and age, why would you assume anything other than
>Excel in the real business world?

Amazon, eBay, and myriad other W3 businesses would surely lose a significant
amount of business assuming such.  The handheld is the way folks shop in the
second decade of the 21st century.  They're even processing plastic payments
( credit and debit cards) with handheld devices in the second decade of the 
21st century.   The last time I surveyed that landscape it was dominated by
Android and Apple.  To paraphase a popular credit card company's ad slogan,
"What's in your hand?"

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