> But one common attack point exists. Hickey was able to exploit how Microsoft Word, available to download from the Windows app store, handles and processes macros.
No doubt. I get that MS doesn't want to break the sometimes decades old solutions people came up with for around the office by removing VBA but they should offer a version of MSO that simply does not support it.
Consumers and younger businesses with no VBA dependencies could buy it and companies that need to can continue to buy a version that supports VBA.
The only draw back I can think of is the confusion this could cause when buying. Maybe they could just rip VBA out of Office all together and sell it as an add-on to those who need it.
You make a good point. Although the purported motives for Windows 10 S are somewhat agreeable, like approved apps to stop users downloading malware, the whole concept needs to die in a dumpster fire.
You just _know_ that it'll start with not allowing obvious l33t hacker apps onto the store, and swifty end with any app that features a hex color vaguely similar to Pepe the Frog's to be banned because some wannabe buzzfeed writer said that that shade of green is a hate crime (hugely exaggerating here).
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 26.6 ms ] threadOf course that's how they did it.
Consumers and younger businesses with no VBA dependencies could buy it and companies that need to can continue to buy a version that supports VBA.
The only draw back I can think of is the confusion this could cause when buying. Maybe they could just rip VBA out of Office all together and sell it as an add-on to those who need it.
https://superuser.com/questions/1073060/disable-all-microsof...
You just _know_ that it'll start with not allowing obvious l33t hacker apps onto the store, and swifty end with any app that features a hex color vaguely similar to Pepe the Frog's to be banned because some wannabe buzzfeed writer said that that shade of green is a hate crime (hugely exaggerating here).