No VBA in Office

[Matt Johnston]

On 22 Nov 2006, at 20:01, Roger Howard wrote
>>
>> 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.

So where to go from here?

Wait for Sheets/Tables/Cells from Apple?
OpenOffice?
Mesa?

I already have Mesa and it does the trick.

This Macros thing is going to be bad.
> And here I thought MacBU, and Office for Mac, was highly profitable.

Heck, they'll ship this product when it's ready. Not when it's  
finished or complete....

> 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.

Hey, did you know you can use Excel AS A DATABASE!!!!

M