Star Office 2008 SP1 Released, VBA Support To Return
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th May 2008 20:34 UTC
Features, Office Microsoft has released the first service pack to Microsoft Office:Mac 2008. The company also said that sales of Office:Mac 2008 have "soared", and that it is "selling faster than any previous version of Office for Mac in the past 19 years". Microsoft also had a surprise announcement about Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support.
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Probably has been selling well
by bousozoku on Tue 13th May 2008 22:00 UTC
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If you consider that MS Office 2004 for Mac was bloated and didn't perform all that well on PowerPC machines for which it was developed, you can imagine how it ran through on-the-fly emulation.

Of course, MS Office 2008 has been selling well.

I wonder if the performance enhancements are truly good or about equal with the so-so job Adobe did. Are PowerPC users seeing increased performance as well? Do the applications actually go to 0.0 % CPU on idle?

Interesting to see that they're reviving VBA on one side. Does this mean that VBA for Windows will be re-written also?

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