Microsoft is here, finally.

I would love to get my hands on their live application but seems all I have now is a screenshot. Well, a picture is worth a thousand words, so let’s see what we can learn from it:

These looks good:

• In-cell graphing and visualisation, as shown in “Rent” and “Nat. Light” column.
• In-cell sorting button, as shown in cell A7.
• Auto-filter! Although the screenshot doesn’t show it is using it.
• Pretty nice charts.

These looks weird:

• Selected cell content is not displayed in the formula bar.
• The cursor doesn’t have drag-and-fill feature.
• Where’s the vertical scroll bar?
• No indication of sharing, collaboration and publishing features which we think are important to online spreadsheets.

Afterall, it’s just a screenshot. The live product may be very different when it is released.

Competition is good. This is just exciting.

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