[lbo-talk] software question

[John S Costello]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 28, 2009, at 8:13 PM, John S Costello wrote:
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>> Since I work for Microsoft and have actually had a long talk with one
>> of the Office 2007 product managers about the product, I feel
>> competent to answer some of these questions.
>
> While you're at it, could you ask why they dropped Visual Basic in the
> latest Mac version, and made it impossible to copy/paste an Excel graph into
> Illustrator?

I know the answer to the VBA question.  Microsoft's VBA for Mac
implementation was tuned for PPC and they got caught flat-footed when
the switch to Intel happened.  Rather than hold up the release until
an Intel implementation was finished, they released it without VBA.
And it was a huge mistake -- customers hated it; many, like you,
refused to upgrade.  So there will be a fully-compatible VBA engine in
the next release of Office.

I don't know about Excel and Illustrator.  I'll see if I can find
someone who knows the answer.

-- John

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