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Microsoft drops VBA in Mac Office 2007

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the seems-more-secure-that-way dept.

slashdotwriter writes "Macworld features an article stating that the next version of Office for the Mac will not include Visual Basic scripting. From the article: 'Microsoft Office isn't among the apps that will run natively on Intel-based Macs — and it won't be until the latter half of 2007, according to media reports. But when it does ship, Office will apparently be missing a feature so vital to cross-platform compatibility that I believe it will be the beginning of the end for the Mac version of the productivity suite...'"

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  1. Re:QUICK!!! by schabot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, when using NeoOffice, it is more like:

    "Double-Clickey-Wait-Wait-Wait-Wait-Typey-Typey-Wa it-Wait-Wait-Typey-Typey"

  2. Re:QUICK!!! by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    So *thats* where the developers from Real defected to.

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  3. Re:bah! by Meatloaf+Surprise · · Score: 4, Funny
    that sucks - i dont know if anyone else has had to put together a very larger power point on a mac book pro, but it is freaking slow. When the file hits 70megs it starts to hit a crawl. its a pain in my ass

    I don't know what's worse: being the one making a 70MB+ powerpoint presentation or the one forced to sit through it!

  4. but with no VBA by syrinx · · Score: 2, Funny

    If there's no VBA, how are we supposed to write our worms?

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  5. I see two products making money in my Xtal ball by cyfer2000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    One is to translate VBA in Office to Applescript and the second one is to translate Applescript to VBA.

    Damn, I don't know either of them and I am so busy reading /. that I don't have time to learn, otherwise, I am going to be rich.

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  6. Re:Typical Microsoft Tactics at work by moranar · · Score: 4, Funny
    Personally, I could care less

    No, you couldn't.

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  7. Oh, no! Word Macro viruses won't run! by dpbsmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is terrible!

    The only time I use VBA automation is when a PC user sends me a Word attachment with a macro virus and I open it.

    We must have cross-platform virus compatibility! If we don't have Word macro viruses, what will be left for antivirus programs to protect Mac users from? The Mac antivirus market will collapse!

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  8. Re:Can Microsoft even *do* this? by 644bd346996 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you remember the MacWorld where Bungie demoed Halo? Look how well that turned out for Apple.

  9. Re:QUICK!!! by kalleguld · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, the irony...

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  10. No VBA?! by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, how in the world are people going to write viruses for Office?

    Oh, wait, I forget, OSX doesn't suffer from viruses.

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