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Re:Pyspread – The Most Pythonic Spreadsheet by ptx on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @01:04PM (#40288409)
Not actually "in Excel", though. The Python code runs on Microsoft's servers (they say in the introduction) and Excel is just a client.

There's no reason they couldn't embed CPython in Excel, but maybe the intention was for the online version of Excel to have feature parity without having to compile Python to JavaScript?

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Re:Pyspread – The Most Pythonic Spreadsheet by cyanydeez on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @08:39PM (#40293175)
the intention is to lock in orgs to their cloud services. This is a value-add. They really know that Excel, Word are "feature complete" and the only way they're going to make money on it is by harvesting and locking in the users.
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