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Article TLDR: Workers over ~30 love Excel. Younger workers are willing to try new webapps that are like Excel, but with squircles and in the cloud.

These tools include a number of SAAS startups whose marketing departments definitely did not pay Techcrunch any money to get plugged in this article.

Your job or career as a software engineer is not threatened, though the title was intended to make you feel that way in order to bait clicks. Assuming you don’t work on Excel, that is.



Does remind me a bit of "Breaking News: The Suit is Back!" I guess no code is back too. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html




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