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Community Question - How have you been using the new Stocks and Geography Data Types?
I am a longtime MSFT office user on Windows and about ten years ago switched to the Apple Mac platform. I use Bloomberg professionally but wanted to have a portable copy of my portfolio that I could use away from my Bloomberg terminal. I was very excited to hear that real-time global securities pricing was added to Excel. But then I was shocked to discover that this functionality was only available on the Windows version of excel not the MAC version. There is absolutely no technical reason why this should be so, so I must assume that the reason is political - to deprive functionality to MAC users in order to drive them toward adopting Windows instead. Is any of this true and is there a work-round to getting real-time securities pricing in excel on the MAC or do I need to drop excel all together? Thanks in advance for responding if you can...
IMHO, the only politics these days is to push users to use cloud infrastructure. Doesn't matter which on which client they are - Excel Windows Desktop, MacOS, Android or browser. In particular, new data types are available for Mac if you are Office365 subscriber
By the way, same for Windows.
