Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th May 2008 20:34 UTC
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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RE: Isn' t it interesting
by Soulbender on Wed 14th May 2008 13:17
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RE[2]: Isn' t it interesting
by kaiwai on Wed 14th May 2008 20:12
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"What is Microsoft scared of?
My wild guess is going to be "competition". "
Of course, but then again, in that post, I answered the very question with:
"an Office suite such as OpenOffice.org which spans Windows, Mac OS X and *NIX; a uniform office experience where, no matter which platform it is run, you will get the same level of support."
That is what scares Microsoft. Imagine a situation where you can have a heterogenous environment, people running operating systems which suited their particular area best; graphics department using Macs, bean counters using Windows, engineers and other boffins using *NIX - all held together with a single office suite whose features are equal on every platform supported. None of this, "well, there is Office for Mac but it is missing.....[laundry list of missing features when compared to the Windows counterpart]".
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RE[2]: Isn' t it interesting
by sbergman27 on Thu 15th May 2008 01:27
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Isn't it interesting that when OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta appears natively on Mac OS X, and contains a basic VBA support, there is Microsoft announcing VBA support to reappear in Microsoft Office after adamantly declaring that it won't appear in it because it would be too complex.
What is Microsoft scared of? an Office suite such as OpenOffice.org which spans Windows, Mac OS X and *NIX; a uniform office experience where, no matter which platform it is run, you will get the same level of support.
Compare that with Office 2008 where major chunks of Office functionality are missing when compared to their Windows counter part.