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83 articles decelerating

Excel has appeared in 83 articles since 2015-04. Coverage peaked in 2024Q1 with 4 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Microsoft, PowerPoint, Office, Outlook.

Articles
83
mentions
Velocity
-33.3%
growth rate
Acceleration
-0.833
velocity change
Sources
32
publications

Coverage Timeline

2021-11-07
@balajis

Twitter commentary erupts after Microsoft Ignite speakers described their physical appearance and race and noted the Microsoft campus was built on native land

where literally thousands of cultures have been eliminated by the most violent forms of conquest https://twitter.com/... Joseph Kahn / @josephkahn : I am a Korean American male wearing a white shirt w...

2021-11-06
@balajis

Twitter commentary erupts after Microsoft Ignite speakers described their physical appearance and race and noted the Microsoft campus was built on native land

where literally thousands of cultures have been eliminated by the most violent forms of conquest https://twitter.com/... @nostrachavez : As @peterboghossian said, maybe @Microsoft should give all of t...

2021-10-24
Protocol

A look at productivity influencers who center their content around apps like Notion, Excel, and Asana, offering advice on how to stay organized

This is the creators' internet.  The rest of us are just living in it.  We're accustomed to the scores of comedy TikTokers … Tweets: @gavinsbaker , @protocol , @protocol , @augustbradley , @jberrebi ,...

2020-10-20
WIRED UK

A look at Excel community groups like EUSpRig, made up of accountants, auditors, and Excel power users paid to help organizations spot risky spreadsheet errors

Nicole Kobie / WIRED UK : Tweets: @arnaubayon and @hkanji Tweets: Arnau Bayn / @arnaubayon : Research suggests more than 90 per cent of spreadsheets have errors, and half of spreadsheet models used i...

2020-10-19
WIRED UK

A look at Excel community groups like EUSpRig, made up of accountants, auditors, and Excel power users paid to help organizations spot risky spreadsheet errors

Nicole Kobie / WIRED UK :

2020-10-06
Engadget 25 related

UK government blames a “technical issue” for underreporting COVID-19 cases by 15,000+; reports suggest an Excel sheet with lab results reached its maximum size

Matt Brian / Engadget :

2020-10-05
Engadget 14 related

UK government blames a “technical issue” for underreporting COVID-19 cases by 15,000+; reports suggest an Excel sheet with lab results reached its max. size

A day after the UK government announced its highest number of new coronavirus cases in England, the reason behind the drastic rise has reportedly been revealed.

2020-08-07
The Verge 2 related

Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft's Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting

Sometimes it's easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel  —  There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA …

2020-06-19
Ars Technica 1 related

Microsoft discloses a new attack by Chimborazo, a group that is distributing a malicious Excel document on a site requiring CAPTCHA to evade automated detection

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :

2019-06-28
Wired 1 related

Researchers detail a vulnerability in Excel's Power Query that can be abused to link to a webpage that contains malware; the exploit is in all versions of Excel

YOU PROBABLY THINK of Microsoft's classic spreadsheet program Excel as mostly boring.  Sure, it can wrangle data, but it's not exactly Apex Legends.

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 74 Techmeme articles mentioning Excel, dating back to April 2015. The biggest stories include Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel,... and Microsoft debuts a Family Safety mobile app and AI-powered PowerPoint and Excel features.... Frequently covered alongside Microsoft, PowerPoint, Office, Outlook, and Android. Coverage has shifted toward developer themes and away from enterprise, consumer.

Key Moments

2024Q2consumer -75pts; research +100pts; competition +100pts
2024Q3enterprise +100pts; developer +50pts; consumer +50pts
2024Q4enterprise -100pts; developer -50pts; consumer +50pts

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