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Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 112 points 9 months 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] 44 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Can confirm. Worked at several billion dollar corps that would collapse without vba.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm as well. It's wild

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Another Sys Admin confirming that yes, the finance department runs nearly entirely on VBA. They would be lost without it.

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