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minus-squarerhymepurple@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoI agree with everything you said, but (in Microsoft’s eyes) this is a feature - not a bug. Without this cloud component, how could: Microsoft make sure that the accounting team does not introduce a malicious/old Python library into the Excel file? Microsoft protect its users from writing/running inefficient, buggy, or malicious Python code? Microsoft provide a Python runtime to users who do not know how to install Python? Microsoft charge to run code that you wrote in a free, open source software programming language on a device that you own?
I agree with everything you said, but (in Microsoft’s eyes) this is a feature - not a bug.
Without this cloud component, how could: