[kgwgk]

Microsoft would also like to see that change, that’s why they tried to kill VBA. The reason for not following through (in killing VBA, because they definitely support and prefer other extension mechanisms) was pushback from users.

[grep_name]

Wait, really? I've been working in a thoroughly MS ecosystem for the first time this year, and I can't seem to find any evidence that they've tried to kill VBA based on how often I run into situations where VBA (or worse, VBscript) is the ONLY option, especially when working with excel's developer functions or writing expressions in SSRS utilities. Did the users push back because the options they were presented with were use VBA or have no scripting capabilities?

[kgwgk]

To be fair, they denied that VBA was at risk: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/architectsrule/2008/01/23/v...

But the fact is that it was missing from macos Excel for a while and they wanted people to migrate to VSTO: https://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/tip/On-migrating...