If I understand correctly, they're stripping out ALL the macros and VBScript, good or bad.

If so, how do you preserve beneficial macros?

One of the standard points made by M$ whenever someone wants to rip out Office and replace it with e.g. StarOffice, is that all that company's wonderful corporate macros will have to be re-written.

If their new official position is that macros are more trouble than they're worth, then they've shot down one of their own selling points!