No VBA in Office

[Roger Howard]

On Wed, November 22, 2006 1:35 pm, steve harley wrote:
> they whom i call Roger Howard wrote:
>> 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.
>
> by that logic Apple would have put much better/any Apple Events
> implementations into several of its applications ...

I don't follow, call me dumb. My point is that removing a major feature
just because a majority of customers in some segment may not use it is not
necessarily a good business decision. A *significant* benefit of going to
Microsoft for an office package for Mac OS has always been the
cross-platform nature of the beast; without macros and VBA it's going to
have far less cross-platform compatibility.

And don't get me started on AE/AppleScript support from Apple :)