Star Microsoft Makes a Basic Mistake with Office 2007
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Dec 2006 18:33 UTC, submitted by alcibiades
Microsoft "Microsoft Office isn't among the apps that will run natively on Intel-based Macs - and it won't be until the latter half of 2007, according to media reports. But when it does ship, Office will apparently be missing a feature so vital to cross-platform compatibility that I believe it will be the beginning of the end for the Mac version of the productivity suite."
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Cross-Platform Compatibility
by llanitedave on Mon 11th Dec 2006 02:34 UTC
llanitedave
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2005-07-24

This story just shows the idiocy of relying on proprietary applications between competitors. Open Office is looking better and better.

I'm just wondering why all these office suites can't use some open scripting language like javascript or Python for their macros?

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RE: Cross-Platform Compatibility
by hal2k1 on Mon 11th Dec 2006 02:59 in reply to "Cross-Platform Compatibility"
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2005-11-11

//I'm just wondering why all these office suites can't use some open scripting language like javascript or Python for their macros?//

http://framework.openoffice.org/scripting/
"The Scripting Framework allows OpenOffice.org users to write and run macros in multiple languages including OpenOffice.org Basic, Python, Java, BeanShell and JavaScript. "

There you go. Happy to be of service.

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llanitedave Member since:
2005-07-24

I feel better already!

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