To be fair, if every install of Excel started installing a full docker container of Python, anaconda, scikit, statsmodels, pandas, Matplotlib, seaborn, and more people would complain Excel is far too bloated.
They probably could make it an optional local install, but it sounds like focused on UX first and wanted collaborators on Teams to have the same experience which would maybe be harder with mixed local installs and cloud containers.
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To be fair, if every install of Excel started installing a full docker container of Python, anaconda, scikit, statsmodels, pandas, Matplotlib, seaborn, and more people would complain Excel is far too bloated.
They probably could make it an optional local install, but it sounds like focused on UX first and wanted collaborators on Teams to have the same experience which would maybe be harder with mixed local installs and cloud containers.
Mixed hosting sounds better - Team instances run from the cloud, but can be locally installed
I deeply resent that my computer must be connected to the internet if I want to do work