Microsoft Excel "12" - Death "Cell" for EDD Vendors

Microsoft Excel

"... Probably the most common question the Excel team gets from our customers is “when are you going to add more rows/more columns/more rows and more columns”. There are many different scenarios behind these requests. Some customers want to be able to analyze more data than Excel has rows, some customers want to track more daily information than Excel has columns, and other customers want to perform matrix math on large matrices of thousands of elements. There are plenty of other scenarios too. Well, the answer to the question is “in Excel 12.” Specifically, the Excel 12 grid will be 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns. That’s 1,500% more rows and 6,300% more columns than in Excel 2003, and for those of you that are curious, columns now end at XFD instead of IV. ..."

OMG... Excel is already the bane of any EDD vendor's existence. This is just going to make it insane.

Actually it might push the industry faster toward native file delivery... Still there are so many unanswered questions on native file delivery (redaction, etc, etc). At least we have a couple years to think about it.

(via Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise - 17 billion cells)