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Microsoft Says VBA Is Here To Stay

Posted by kdawson on from the thought-we'd-seen-the-back-of-it dept.

Angostura writes "Microsoft's team blog for Microsoft Excel and Excel Services has responded with a denial to the earlier report that Visual Basic for Applications will disappear from Windows Office in 2009. The Slashdot discussion on the report on Tuesday got pretty animated."

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  1. that was a close one. by kellyb9 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh thank god... don't know what I'd do without that!

  2. Re:ISOfication of OOXML vs VBA by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Agreed. VBA obviously can't be part of the ISO-ificated OOXML. VBA is probably going to be considered a 'legacy' feature, with recommendations that customers do new development on VSTA/VSTO.

    If history is any judge, many VBA apps will one day not work in future versions of Office anyhow. MSFT does plenty to break compatibility between releases. In fact, some VBA apps developed for Office 97 won't work on Office 2000 or later.

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