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Python in Excel – Available Now (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I agree with everything you said, but (in Microsoft's eyes) this is a feature - not a bug.

Without this cloud component, how could:

  • Microsoft make sure that the accounting team does not introduce a malicious/old Python library into the Excel file?
  • Microsoft protect its users from writing/running inefficient, buggy, or malicious Python code?
  • Microsoft provide a Python runtime to users who do not know how to install Python?
  • Microsoft charge to run code that you wrote in a free, open source software programming language on a device that you own?