Yeah we're on a bit of a purge right now to remove a lot of MS Office automation. We're just reading data from files - nothing fancy - but it's all over the pla

Yeah we're on a bit of a purge right now to remove a lot of MS Office automation. We're just reading data from files - nothing fancy - but it's all over the place and apparently technically outside of licensed usage so compliance is cracking down on us. COM is an interesting concept. If it were never invented I have a feeling native apps would be spinning up a simple REST API server instead, since that's what we all do now apparently.