AI isn't changing everything. Spreadsheet whizzes are still competitive in the current job market.

The programming language can be used to create more advanced data science workflows than those that Excel supports out of the box.

Microsoft added a bunch of useful capabilities to Excel this month, including one that was highly requested by customers.

The Traditional Role of Python Just as open-source development revolutionized SQL, it also rejuvenated programming languages that work with data.

Microsoft researchers are working on a new, future Excel feature that combines natural language and automatic programming technologies to make queries and data analysis easier.

Beyond Excel, the team also took inspiration from tools and languages like Pascal, Mathematica and Miranda, a functional programming language developed in the 1980s.