[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 10:59:27 -0500, bill wrote:

> I have old versions of Office (still have a bunch of OEM ones in the
> shrinkwrap) that work just fine.  Don't need them as I moved to Open
> Source Office a long time ago.

Related to this, it is dismaying to discover how many people, even
supposed professionals, continue to use Microsoft Excel to do
statistical analysis. And suffer the bugs therefrom, often without
even noticing. This came to a head when the decision was made some
years ago, in the genetics community, to change the official names of
some genes, just to avoid Excel continually trying to interpret them
as dates.

This article
<https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008984>
looks at the situation since then, to see if researchers are behaving
any more intelligently nowadays. The answer seems to be no.