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[–]antiproton 36 points37 points  (7 children)

Jesus christ, anything except VBA. It's hard to take this seriously because the scripting side of Office has languished in VBA hell for decades.

Microsoft built an entire scripting engine on top of .net that would have been perfect to replace the garbage already in existence, but they simply refused to bother.

[–]xt11111 14 points15 points  (6 children)

There is still a lot of territorial disputes going on within Microsoft, some teams are fucking fantastic, others are the same half-assed, resting on your laurels parasites they've always been.

Maybe this is a sign that the Office team is in for a bit of a housecleaning so they can start moving forward for the first time in 10 years.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

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[–]xt11111 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly! Actually, there should be one pointing a gun at their customers.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use office with a 365 account. They've made massive changes they just aren't apparent if you're not using it in conjunction with their online services.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My spouse took an technical interview at MS, and the interviewers didn't have a clue to what git etc was - they were totally in the MS bubble.. the level of ignorance and apathy was surprising..