[pcwalton]

If Microsoft had adopted this attitude, then by now Excel's market share would probably be 0% and Google Sheets' would be 100%. Microsoft doesn't add features because they like bloated software; they add features because the market demands them, and the market demanded support for more than 65,535 rows.

[codr7]

I've thankfully never had to deal with anything close to that size, what kind of super computers are they running?