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It may have a separate timeline but it does seem to hint at going out the door in similar order on Office as well. I think the Python in Excel stuff is still in

It may have a separate timeline but it does seem to hint at going out the door in similar order on Office as well. I think the Python in Excel stuff is still in beta but things like lambdas, regex or Office Scripts all actually work (even on the web versions) and start taking big bites out of why you'd want to look at VB. New Outlook dropped VB support even on the desktop and I don't think they plan on maintaining separate development platforms for the other apps forever.

Someone1234 2y ago
Python in Excel could have been amazing, except Microsoft executes it in a cloud environment and require a Cloud Service account to even open spreadsheets with it in. I'd strongly recommend people avoid Python in Excel, it is a Trojan Horse into forcing you to subscribe to access your own spreadsheets.
- pavlov 2y ago
  It’s ironic that Microsoft was founded to provide software for microcomputers where the whole idea was that you own the CPU and don’t need to pay anyone or ask permission for access. And now they’re full circle back to mandating the timeshare computing model even though the local CPU has incredible performance. Maybe they should rename to Centralsoft.
  - halfcat 2y ago
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  - pjmlp 2y ago
    That idea was long gone by the time they were selling Xenix, or years later bought Citrix's work to create RDP foundations.
- dragonwriter 2y ago
  AFAIK, Python in Excel is fine, but only if you don't use Microsoft's: https://www.xlwings.org/ https://www.xlwings.org/
albertopv 2y ago
New Outlook is just an embedded web app. I tried it for weeks, old one is still better, and least rooms calendar is updated properly.
- zamadatix 2y ago
  That's precisely what I mean, rather than maintain desktop and web apps for the Office suite Microsoft is continually moving towards a single stack of web based apps (chat and email being the first two so far). The web based tools dont have VB as a lot of the VB integrations wouldn't be possible on the web anyways.

Someone1234 2y ago

Python in Excel could have been amazing, except Microsoft executes it in a cloud environment and require a Cloud Service account to even open spreadsheets with it in. I'd strongly recommend people avoid Python in Excel, it is a Trojan Horse into forcing you to subscribe to access your own spreadsheets.

pavlov 2y ago
It’s ironic that Microsoft was founded to provide software for microcomputers where the whole idea was that you own the CPU and don’t need to pay anyone or ask permission for access. And now they’re full circle back to mandating the timeshare computing model even though the local CPU has incredible performance. Maybe they should rename to Centralsoft.
- halfcat 2y ago
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- pjmlp 2y ago
  That idea was long gone by the time they were selling Xenix, or years later bought Citrix's work to create RDP foundations.
dragonwriter 2y ago
AFAIK, Python in Excel is fine, but only if you don't use Microsoft's: https://www.xlwings.org/ https://www.xlwings.org/

albertopv 2y ago

New Outlook is just an embedded web app. I tried it for weeks, old one is still better, and least rooms calendar is updated properly.

zamadatix 2y ago
That's precisely what I mean, rather than maintain desktop and web apps for the Office suite Microsoft is continually moving towards a single stack of web based apps (chat and email being the first two so far). The web based tools dont have VB as a lot of the VB integrations wouldn't be possible on the web anyways.