By Hiran de Silva While waiting at University College London Hospital recently—where, incidentally, Ringo Starr once had his tonsils removed and George Orwell took his...
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The Bizarre Cloud Spreadsheet Debate: Are We Having a Real Discussion or Just Feeding the Algorithm?
Lately, I’ve been following some of the discussions unfolding in Paul Barnhurst’s threads about spreadsheets “moving to the cloud.” At first glance, the...
Recently, I posted a poll on LinkedIn asking: “Should spreadsheets in the enterprise default to being standalone or client-server, unless there’s an...
Understanding the architecture behind Excel—and why it matters more than ever. A Confused Conversation There’s a lot of confusion floating around when it comes to...
Most Excel users in today’s enterprises are unaware of a client-server architecture—not just unfamiliar with the mechanics, but completely oblivious to its existence as...
Ref: Post on LinkedIn by Giles Male on Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 There’s been some recent discussion around the quality of spreadsheet solutions in business—particularly...
A strange absurdity plays out daily on social media—especially in the Excel community. You can see it vividly in a recent thread by Paul Barnes, where the recurring...
Most Excel users today operate within a severely limited paradigm — one rooted in the outdated metaphor of a large sheet of paper. This “paper mindset” constrains how...
Another day, another confused post on LinkedIn, asking whether VBA is being replaced. It’s a superficially plausible question, one that sounds thoughtful to the...
In a recent post, Paul Barnhurst raised the question of whether modern tools like Python, Office Scripts, Power Query, and Lambdas are replacing VBA in Excel. It’s a...