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The government will still have to pay to use Excel. Too much shit will break, you can't just flip an .xlxs into another program.
Which sounds like an excellent reason to go through the pain once and replace Excel with something better standardized.
I work for an MSP. I can assure you, those who believe they need excel to do their job are willing to die on that hill, and take the whole department with them
Might be less pain in the long term to just let them die on that hill then and replace them when they are gone along with Excel.
I do not really work with excel beyond the basics. Why can't free solutions like libre office and open office replace excel?
Because MS made non standard functions to force lockin. You can't even go from desktop app to web versions of excel without breaking things
The government should just use libre office