Workers can import data into Excel for analysis using a set of built-in connections. Alternatively, they may use Microsoft’s Power Query tool for the task.

Gone are the days of exporting data, firing up a separate Python environment, writing scripts, and then figuring out how to bring the results back into your spreadsheet.

It will be interesting to see how Python’s integration into Excel works out. It’s a very specialized, cloud-hosted, and seemingly containerized and secured code offering.