I was very excited until I read this line
Python calculations run in the Microsoft Cloud, with the results returned into an Excel worksheet.That’s an instant non starter for me.
Not to mention this integration seems very much focused around the graphing libraries of python and not using it for data processing. It’s not the ‘excel powered by python’ I dreamed of.
Any way they can find to shove even more azure in our faces, right? And later on “bundling is not monopoly abuse”
Edit: but we should love new Microsoft, because open source or something
LibreOffice already has Python support along with some other choices.
Python calculations run in the Microsoft Cloud, with the results returned into an Excel worksheet.
Weird choice, so it has to be due to wanting to Paywall it (they mention that at the bottom of the article). Otherwise I’d rather have the option to install python locally and speed up my queries when working on large data sets
They probably also don’t want to deal with all the security vulnerabilities that came with VBA macros again.
But who wants to deal with excel then. Running python in the cloud and have it put data into an excel file is something I can already do, and as a bonus I can do it locally too.
They brought typescript to excel too. Unfortunately it only runs via the cloud (through SharePoint). It’s just another way to capture people within their walled garden of subscription based office products
It’s the same with Python support.
