This year's Microsoft Excel World Championship was the wildest yet — so who came out on top in the annual spreadsheet super-battle?
THE SO WHAT
Competitive Excel is a reminder that the real moat in tooling is still power users and community, not features. If your product lives near spreadsheets, design AI features that amplify these experts rather than trying to replace them.
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