<story><title>Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/22/23841167/microsoft-excel-python-integration-support</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cableshaft</author><text>I wish it wasn&amp;#x27;t solely powered only by Microsoft Cloud and could support python running locally, but regardless I think this will still be huge and single-handedly modernizes Excel by a large margin.&lt;p&gt;This alone could eliminate the need for websites that just want this sort of data. I can think of a past project at a previous job I did building an analytics website used only by a handful of people internally that could have been just as well served with something like this, had it existed at the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taylodl</author><text>&amp;gt; This alone could eliminate the need for websites that just want this sort of data&lt;p&gt;I catch flak for this all the time! Our users just want to be able to use Excel to free-form analyze their data. IT, of which I&amp;#x27;m a part of, insists on building web apps to do that for them. They&amp;#x27;re &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; happy because all they wanted was Excel.&lt;p&gt;I keep explaining all we have to do is build a data mart built using SQL Server, and use our ETL tools to keep it populated with the data they need to analyze. Don&amp;#x27;t let them anywhere near the source data. They keep looking at me like I have ten heads. Instead they want to launch multi-million dollar projects to bring Tableau to our users - and they don&amp;#x27;t want it! It&amp;#x27;s asinine!</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/22/23841167/microsoft-excel-python-integration-support</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cableshaft</author><text>I wish it wasn&amp;#x27;t solely powered only by Microsoft Cloud and could support python running locally, but regardless I think this will still be huge and single-handedly modernizes Excel by a large margin.&lt;p&gt;This alone could eliminate the need for websites that just want this sort of data. I can think of a past project at a previous job I did building an analytics website used only by a handful of people internally that could have been just as well served with something like this, had it existed at the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inglor</author><text>Hi I work on Excel, can you write a summary of why that&amp;#x27;s important to you and send it to bgruenbaum@microsoft.com ? I&amp;#x27;ll get it in front of a PM.&lt;p&gt;Alternatively PMs read all the feedback sent via the feedback UI on Excel web and desktop so you can use that instead if you prefer.</text></comment>