While I am not in the habit of defending Microsoft, I think it should be pointed out that it wasn't using "Excel" that was the biggest problem, but using "13-years obsolete format for Excel". Not that there was any reason to be using Excel for this, but it's a bit unfair to blame Microsoft for something they never claimed XLS could do, and provided a much better capacity in XLSX 13 years ago.
Again, it's hard to cry too many tears for Microsoft, but it does seem a bit off-target to blame "Excel" for this...
Again, it's hard to cry too many tears for Microsoft, but it does seem a bit off-target to blame "Excel" for this...