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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago (40 children)

I have seen critical enterprise applications run in VBA in excel. Removing VBA would cause global economic ruin. I'm pretty sure that's the unspoken backstory for the Fallout series.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

MS: You have until (now +2 years) to phase out VBA.

Enterprise: panic noises

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah. They'll just sit on their hands for two years and then panic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And then MS will issue a limited extension.

An business still won't be ready.

Modern auth on email is still causing problems for a lot of places.

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