This sounds interesting. But aren't there security concerns? What if someone takes a picture of an excel from a video, one that you can see but shouldn't have access too, and gets the data?
If you had a picture of someone's spreadsheet, you could type it into Excel yourself - you can't fit huge amounts of data into a single photo. Microsoft's tool would only save you a few minutes worth of typing.
For that matter, if you just get a glimpse of someone's spreadsheet, you could see something you weren't supposed to see and remember it. That's why people who work with sensitive data shouldn't be working in open-plan offices or coffee shops.
I don't normally like "there's an XKCD for that" posts, but https://xkcd.com/2116/ was posted Monday, Febuary 25th (or at least the forum thread for it was [0]), while the article says this wasn't released until Friday.
Was there some earlier indications of this, did Randall get some advanced warning, or was this just lucky timing?
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Was there some earlier indications of this, did Randall get some advanced warning, or was this just lucky timing?
[0] http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=126119