No VBA in Office

[Roger Howard]

On Wed, November 22, 2006 11:13 am, Matt Johnston wrote:
>
> On 22 Nov 2006, at 19:02, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>> Yes, no Excel macros will work in the next version of Excel (for
>> the Mac).  However, one shouldn't confuse this with Excel functions
>> (equations in cells) that will still work fine.
>>
>> The problem is there are a lot of power users of Excel that use VBA
>> to make Excel do some pretty amazing (or horrific, depends on the
>> way you look at it) things.
>
> Another classic example of our friends in the MacBU dumbing down
> products for Mac users.

And making plain that they are willing to alienate - no, screw - a
significant number of users as long as they aren't the majority, expecting
that the rest won't mind. So maybe they don't get any upgrade sales in
corporate environments - with people either moving to Windows for Office,
or sticking with 2004 under Rosetta, as I suspect I'll have to - which
will further pinch the bottom line, and further justify less investment in
the product.

And here I thought MacBU, and Office for Mac, was highly profitable.

Guess what MacBU? Most features in most complex apps aren't used by all,
or even most, users, but there's a network effect that allows these
complex suite apps (whether MS, Adobe, Macromedia, or otherwise) to appeal
to enough different users for enough different reasons that it creates a
critical mass of customers, even though each of those customers comes to
the table with very different requirements.