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Tom’s Hardware: Developer gets Linux running inside Microsoft Excel, ‘mostly for fun’. “Developer NSG650 has succeeded in his attempt to get “Linux running in Excel.” The GitHub-hosted and aptly named LinuxInExcel project was uploaded to the cloud-based developer platform earlier this week, and updated with input support just yesterday.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/03/toms-hardware-developer-gets-linux-running-inside-microsoft-excel-mostly-for-fun/

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c't-Workshop: Effizient Daten analysieren und interaktive Berichte erstellen

Der Workshop zeigt, wie Sie mit Power BI Datenquellen zusammenführen, Modelle erstellen und interaktive Berichte gestalten – für klar strukturierte Analysen.

heise.de/news/c-t-Workshop-Eff

Weird question about Microsoft Excel

So I have been wanting to learn more about how to use Microsoft Excel so I can teach other people about some of the more advanced programming techniques (EDIT: 1-on-1 lessons on their own computer with their own licensed copies of Excel). I want to teach myself more about Excel so I was going to install it on my own computer and do some advanced tutorials. But then I really do not want to burn up all of that disk space just to run Wine and Excel.

So I got to thinking:

  1. is there an older version of Microsoft Excel I could use instead?
  2. The “ribbon” UI/UX asside, how far back in time (in Excel software versions) would I have to go before the formula language and cell computation engine became too different from the most recent Excel that it would not be very useful for me as a learning/teaching tool?
  3. Would it take less disk space to run this in a minimal Windows NT 2000 or Windows XP instance on QEMU than it would take on Wine?

A Canadian 🇨🇦 from Toronto won the Microsoft Excel World Championship.
He says he doesn’t get to do enough fun spreadsheets at work.

cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/2024-
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Un Canadien 🇨🇦 de Toronto a gagné le championnat du monde de Microsoft Excel.
Il dit qu’il n’a pas la chance de faire assez de feuilles de calcul le fun au bureau.

// Article en anglais //

CBCThis Canadian is the new world champion of spreadsheets, and he has the belt to prove it | CBC RadioMichael Jarman, a Toronto financial modelling director, has become the undisputed world champion of managing spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel. 

Why yes, Excel *is* an art tool. (Comic by: Keith Richards)

While I’m focusing on Super/Natural, Inc a few folks in my discord have been gracious enough to make a few guest comics to appease the algorithm gods, which I’ll be sprinkling in periodically. Today’s comic comes from the absolute madlad Keith who heard the call and was like “yeah, let’s do this in Excel”. Thank you, Keith!