| 2009/05/28 The OLAP Report excerpt: Microsoft Project Gemini preview
Gemini is designed to look as much like Excel as possible, so its data will look like a set of Excel tables. Anyone familiar with Excel 2007 tables (which is still probably only a small minority of the hundreds of millions of the world’s Excel users) will immediately feel at home. However, Gemini tables are actually stored as highly compressed, column-indexed, in-memory objects, not Excel worksheets. They are viewed and manipulated in the new Gemini client window, not in the Excel worksheet itself....
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