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No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs
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. "
That has to be one of the BEST features ever that Microsoft could do for macintosh.
My UID is prime is yours?
I wonder how significant this is, being timed with WWDC. Maybe MS heard about all the "Hasta La Vista, Vista" jokes and now they're firing back. (Balmer thought it a better idea than Gates's "Hasta La....Apple.....APPLE!!" comeback quip)
"Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff."
- Deep Thought
Yep, hell froze over and MS decided not to continue to make a piece of software.
In other news, Paris Hilton is not having sex for a year! Oh my, I just saw a pig fly. I'm going back inside now.
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The amount of time it would take to bring Virtual PC to Intel would be roughly equivalent to creating [a Microsoft] product from scratch...
Or, in other words, 6+ years. I don't blame them!
Not important? What do you think macro viruses are written in?! :P
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Corones? I'm not sure threating to take away Apple's crappy water-beer is a really strong tactic.
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This must be some new and novel definition of "compatible" of which I was previously unaware.
MS-Office --- the office-suite that is not even compatible to the same version of itself .
Hilarious.
...will be hammered down. That's all that's happening here. Macs entered the Intel world and Microsoft is none too happy. So Microsoft is going to try and find what tiny balls Apple has and give them a repeated and hard kicking. Good luck though because I know you've all seen an ant fall many hundreds of times it's size and be unphased. I supposed having micronads like Apple's will come in handy in this case. Of course, we've also seen ants easily crushed under our boots too. Yowie!
This was quite possibly the most nonsensical comment that I've ever read on slashdot. Most impressive.
Great. Now I have to spend the next 20 minutes scraping coffee and lung material off of my keyboard and monitor.
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"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."
This sounds like a huge benefit! Maybe it'll encourage a few more people to switch, to improve the security of their Office environment. I'm not an Apple fanboy, but kudos to Microsoft for this security unhancement. Perhaps if this goes well, they'll similarly unhance the Windows version of Office.
And if there is one thing Micorsoft doesn't do, it's rewrite software from scratch.