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		ksec on Jan 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuabl... If I had to vote the most important piece of Software in history, it wouldn't be Windows, MacOS or Linux. It would be Excel. There is a whole world of tech usage outside of Tech or Silicon Valley. It is not an exaggeration to say the world runs on Excel. Most if not all Fortune 2000 relies on it.

pjmlp on Jan 9, 2024 [–]

And as I learned while doing some consulting gigs at a life sciences multinational, the entry point to VB.NET.

The more advanced users would use VBA, and when that wasn't enough, ask the IT to get Visual Studio with VB.NET configured on their system.

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