“Excel is the backbone of data analysis in business; with Python in Excel,” said Benoit Barabe, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Excel. “We’re extending what is possible for our community and ...

The company is using the Anaconda Python distribution — running in Azure — to bring the most popular Python libraries to Excel, including the likes of Matplotlib and seaborn for data ...

According to the company, Insight Partners led the investment with participation from Mubadala Capital. Bloomberg reported ...

Python in Excel runs on Microsoft’s cloud servers, and the company is touting the security that should offer. Python runs in isolated containers, with no access to devices, your network, or user ...

Enhanced Data Visualization: Use Python libraries like Matplotlib and Seaborn to create highly customizable charts and graphs, surpassing Excel’s built-in visualization tools.

To provide Python in Excel locally, Anaconda used Microsoft’s existing Excel plugin capabilities combined with their own technologies. They used PyScript, a Python-on-WebAssembly (WASM) technology, to ...

Microsoft treats Python in Excel like other embedded scripting languages, automatically blocking them if a document contains a Mark of The Web (MoTW). Windows automatically adds MoTW flags to all ...