I design some powerful applications using Excel and VBA. Having Excel on a tablet will be amazing.
There’s some other cool stuff in there too. I’m looking forward to Powershell running as a web service, for remote system administation.
We used to have a saying around the office, “Excel is not a programming language”. It came about because a few folks in the office, that were pretty good with Excel, would compare their Excel abilities to the work of the software developers that created the software for the equipment we sold or proprietary software used internally for inventory control, warranty tracking and other purposes. Then one day the IT guy sent around an Excel workbook that was actually the game Pac Man recreated using VBA in Excel. Even though Excel isnt a programming language, it took all the fun out of saying it