Just how desperate is MS, that they've resorted to *advertising* Excel?
I know this is hilarious, and a desperate move for MS. MS is just ridiculous for advertising a free feature of the Surface that people are buying for $100. Apple on the other hand did it right with the way they advertised a iWork as a free feature of Mavericks and iOS because ...
It's silly to speculate that MS is advertising Excel. They are just trying to say that the Surface can do actual useful work instead of just reading email and surfing the web.
There shouldn't be any speculating about this. MS did advertise the Surface and Excel. The fact that this article exists with it's title and supposed story is a little silly.
Microsoft obviously sucks at marketing. Their surface ads suck, and they've done a terrible job at marketing the Xbox One (they're pretty much giving a majority market share to Sony).
Excel can obviously add up the numbers correctly, the error is due to human error. I personally prefer other spreadsheets (Gnumeric is better for actual number crunching), but this entire article is silly.
[SIZE=4]I can explain whyt [B]the sum is CORRECT[/B] and the calculation IS NOT ABSOLUTELY WRONG. You can see very well that the FOCUS is on the cell 500, and [B][U]in EDIT MODE[/U][/B], so has not yet hit enter or move the cursor... so [B]it has NOT CONSOLIDATED THE CHANGE AND THE RESULT,[/B] as it happens, the result is in fact 500 less!!! :-)))[/SIZE]
I can explain whyt the sum is CORRECT and the calculation IS NOT ABSOLUTELY WRONG.
You can see very well that the FOCUS is on the cell 500, and in EDIT MODE, so has not yet hit enter or move the cursor... so it has NOT CONSOLIDATED THE CHANGE AND THE RESULT, as it happens, the result is in fact 500 less!!!
:-)))
As much as I'd love to jump on this bandwagon because I despise Excel, I have to admit the ad does not depict an error. To conclude that it was an error would mean you have to assume the Total cell was a formula cell that would automatically calculate a new total for the added $500 item. Nothing in the screenshot indicates that it is a formula, and as a matterof fact the interface indicates that the user just finished added the $500 item and we might manually re-calculate their Total.
Now of course an ad designer should have avoided this chance for mockery, but I'm guess they were working on a Mac and really saw no need to offer Microsoft a helping hand:)
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Just how desperate is MS, that they've resorted to *advertising* Excel?
I know this is hilarious, and a desperate move for MS. MS is just ridiculous for advertising a free feature of the Surface that people are buying for $100. Apple on the other hand did it right with the way they advertised a iWork as a free feature of Mavericks and iOS because ...
There shouldn't be any speculating about this. MS did advertise the Surface and Excel. The fact that this article exists with it's title and supposed story is a little silly.
Microsoft obviously sucks at marketing. Their surface ads suck, and they've done a terrible job at marketing the Xbox One (they're pretty much giving a majority market share to Sony).
Excel can obviously add up the numbers correctly, the error is due to human error. I personally prefer other spreadsheets (Gnumeric is better for actual number crunching), but this entire article is silly.
You can see very well that the FOCUS is on the cell 500, and [B][U]in EDIT MODE[/U][/B], so has not yet hit enter or move the cursor... so [B]it has NOT CONSOLIDATED THE CHANGE AND THE RESULT,[/B] as it happens, the result is in fact 500 less!!!
:-)))[/SIZE]
Would you mind reading the thread first?
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Now of course an ad designer should have avoided this chance for mockery, but I'm guess they were working on a Mac and really saw no need to offer Microsoft a helping hand:)
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