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No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-hard dept.

Techie writes "Microsoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh. The amount of time it would take to bring Virtual PC to Intel would be roughly equivalent to creating the product from scratch, Scott Erickson, director of product management and marketing for Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit, told eWEEK. The article says Microsoft will also be discontinuing support of Visual Basic scripting in the next version of Office for Mac." From the article: "As cross-platform compatibility remains a top priority at Microsoft, Erickson says that as the company develops the next version of Office for Mac, the files will continue to be compatible across platforms, including with the 2007 Microsoft Office System for Windows. VB macros within files will not be accessible and users will not be able to view or modify them. However, the files themselves can be edited without affecting or changing the macros. "

3 of 296 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Cross-Platform Compatibility? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck off and kill yourself, you pathetic nerd.

  2. Lies, misrepresentation, and competition by MrLint · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Geez, what a shock..

    MS buys Mac game developer, and kills the mac version for their own game console.

    MS commits to continue IE devlopment for the mac, and then kills is when faced with a better competing product (Safari)

    MS buys a long time Mac devloper, and then kills the product when faced with competition.

    How much longer before MS decides to "re-focus on its core market" and kills Office due to competition.

    The pattern is really quite obivous.

  3. Re:Less software? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    probably just one of the areas that they're going to try to shore up a sinking ship.

    Hi, um, moron. Sorry you have no clue. I'll try to explain in small words. MS shovels cash in faster than you can breathe. Their strategy is to manage and obliterate threats to their monopoly status on the desktop. When they're not throwing chairs, they can be heard shrieking, "We own the desktop!"

    As long as every PC sold has a copy of Windows on it, THERE IS NOT EVEN A SLIGHT FUCKING THREAT TO THEM FROM ANY OF THIS SHIT! The things you mention, Apple, OS X, Google, Firefox, these are NOTHING to an illegal monopoly that EXTRACTS A TAX ON ALL COMPUTER USERS!

    If there were some way I could drill into your head and place that information there, I'd be happy to.

    In the meantime, I can only hope you can understand that the MS decision making process is not "how do we shore up a sinking ship" but "should we cut off everyone's air supply because they're threatening our illegal monopoly?"