macworld.com — 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 Office
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nofxjunkeeDec 11, 2006
People shouldn't have to upgrade their OS to open a word document, especially existing Office:mac customers. But since many Mac users do upgrade I guess that's a pretty good point. If the documents are Excel spreadsheets or complex documents then that point is moot again though. In a business environment they often are complex.
Closed AccountDec 11, 2006
10 for i = 1 to 100 {20 echo "BASIC pwns u!"30 }40 exit
loudernetDec 11, 2006
Ubuntu+Windows+MacI own and love them all! Ha Ha and I'm a DESIGNER.
smashinpumkinsDec 11, 2006
I guess you f**k macheads will never realize that without windows half of the computer users will be wiped out !! MAC is only made for people who love the BIG MAC at McDonalds not for guys who go to KFC for Chicken Popcorns.
tinyclangerDec 11, 2006
The article's talking about Visual Basic for Applications — the macro language in Office — not full-on Visual Basic, which would certainly be a sod to port to Mac :)
gsneddersDec 11, 2006
The Office: Mac team has around 70 people (Windows Office has over 700 people working on it).
guigouzDec 11, 2006
Office for mac always sucked. Rosetta makes it even worse.Move to <a class="user" href="http://www.neooffice.org">http://www.neooffice.org</a>
ducksofanaheimDec 11, 2006
pages...snicker snicker .MAC bwahahahahah
giloronDec 11, 2006
Maybe they are trying to kill off the mac version. As the article said, a mac user can get the windows version and run it. What if Microsoft predicted or even expected that reaction? It could save them a lot of money not having to maintain 2 different versions.
deemaddenDec 11, 2006
I've only skimmed over the comments, so I don't know if anybody's said this yet, but personally, I'm not too worried about this shortcoming. Shortcomings like this spell huge opportunity for 3rd party developers. There are already a couple of Visual Basic IDEs out there - RealBasic and KBasic - RealBasic is already Universal and a pretty mature product. Seems like a pretty short leap to me for one of them to figure out how to snap their compiler into Word or Excel for use as a Macro Generator. It's Microsoft Office, folks. Somebody will come up with a solution to this problem, it just won't be Microsoft.
krishna88Jan 2, 2009
Now its time for Microsoft Office 14-the 2009 release.Check out this link <a class="user" href="http://weblogzz.blogspot.com/2009/01/microsoft-office-14-broken-secret.html">http://weblogzz.blogspot.com/2009/01/microsoft-off ...</a>