Google is NOT the new Microsoft

There are several places on the web that are stating Google is the new Microsoft.  Sure Google has become quite a large company.  Yes, Microsoft has improved their OS some and finally seen some benefit in open source software.  However, Google has quite a long way to go before it is able to fill the shoes Microsoft wears.  Those over sized, holed, heavy, uncomfortable shoes don't quite fit Google yet.

I digress, my intention is not another OS or search engine flame war.  My rants are usually based on something more substantial than preference of software licensing, or which CEO is better, or who has become too "corporate", or who is suing who.  So what inspired a new post after a few years of hiatus from I.T.?  An Excel spreadsheet.  A simple matter, but it hit the wrong buttons.  I simply wanted to keep an online copy of a timesheet made in Excel to have proof of the hours I worked.  Since it was in Excel I went ahead and used an old Microsoft account I had and put the spreadsheet on OneDrive.  Then I attempted to open that document in Excel Online.  Good thing I know from years of experience to test these things rather than wait until it's needed.  This was the result.

Well, that doesn't serve my purpose.  I decided to try Google Sheets and ...

Why on earth does Google Sheets handle an Excel workbook better than Excel Online!!!!!?????  And it's even an "unsupported" version of Chrome as can be seen by the info box in the pic.  There is one thing that was wrong in Google Sheets, and that is that this document is actually in landscape mode, but Google opened it in portrait mode.  Not a big deal.  I don't believe in extremes.  I don't hate everything Microsoft does because it has the Microsoft name on it.  And I don't love everything open source just because of it's openness.  I still use Microsoft Flight Simulator and it's Natural Ergonomic Keyboard ( I owned two of those at one point).  This is embarrassing though.  Shame on Microsoft and kudos to Google.

In the end it's one's own hardware and that means run the applications YOU prefer on whatever OS YOU think is best.  Issues like these sometimes don't leave much of a choice in the matter though.