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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. Visual Basic is pass .... by ravee · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Agreed, visual basic is a easy to use language with drag and drop widgets and all but when compared to a language such as Delphi - (Borland's now Inprise's Object Pascal language), it reveals a lot of chinks in its armour. More over, there is no dearth in scripting language that Mac users should miss this particular feature in their MS Office.

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  2. Re:Not surprisingly... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In post-Soviet Russia, "Anyone" belongs to Vladimir!

  3. Re:QUICK!!! by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The mod system is totally broken, and we've been promised a new version for years now. I officially declare vaporware.

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