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by hy3lxs 5845 days ago
After using them heavily for several years, I have sadly come to the conclusion that Google Docs and Spreadsheets are toys. Every time I try to get "serious" work done in them, I run into a show-stopping missing feature or performance bottleneck that leads me back to booting up a vm with Office installed.

Nobody in enterprise will take the Google office suite seriously unless there are some serious additions to performance and features.

Linking data from disparate spreadsheets sounds good in theory, until you find that trying to use any non-trivial dataset will break Google spreadsheets, your browser, or both.

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After using them heavily for several years, I have sadly come to the conclusion that Google Docs and Spreadsheets are toys

I entirely agree. There's going to have to be a lot of heavy lifting to get them ready for what I described.