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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RE: Isn' t it interesting
by Soulbender on Wed 14th May 2008 13:17 UTC in reply to "Isn' t it interesting"
Soulbender
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2005-08-18

What is Microsoft scared of?


My wild guess is going to be "competition".

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RE[2]: Isn' t it interesting
by kaiwai on Wed 14th May 2008 20:12 in reply to "RE: Isn' t it interesting"
kaiwai Member since:
2005-07-06

"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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