MicrosoftGods I am sick of this. I saw something in my newsfeed this morning saying "Macro settings update to disable Excel 4.0 macros by default." Apparently the "announcement" was back in October of last year. On some random guy's twitter thread I can see a screenshot of.... I don't know what with a Microsoft logo and a reference MC289724 announcing this. I see other references to "an e-mail from Microsoft".
Really. TO WHO?
Regardless of whether I search in Google or Bing, THIS, a random blog apparently from a Microsoft employee, is the closest I can come to finding ANYTHING that is an official announcement by Microsoft to E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y. There was a time, back in the days of the knowledgebase, when announcements were made so that ALL users could see what was happening in Microsoft products. NOW, there seems to be just some leakage of facts to select bloggers who then go on to tweet about it with NOTHING that can be traced back to an official Microsoft announcement in a place where ALL users can find it and track what is happening in the products that they use. You go to "What's New" in Excel and are told about XLookup which is over 2 years old. That's it, that's all that's "new" in Excel if you believe the "what's new" button. The option described in this blog post? That's not "new", apparently. The disabling of Excel 4 macros by default? Not "new". Microsoft mushrooms its users and tells them NOTHING about what is changing in the products that they use on a daily basis.
