Office 2008 for Mac press release

[poolmouse]

MS announced last year that VBA would be supported for at least 10 years
in WinOffice.

The installed base of VBA is incredibly huge, so it became an issue that
would kill upgrades.

The base using VBA in MacOffice is far smaller, so it's not worth the
$$, and especially the extra time it would take, to continue to develop
VBA in MacOffice. So we're left with three unpalatable options, IMO: 1)
Stay with Office 2004 and become more and more out of date, 2) Use
Office 2003/7 in Parallels, or 3) switch to AppleScript or other
external applications.

have a look at neooffice 2.1:

http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/earlyaccess.php

don

don montalvo, nyc
curmudgeon at large

 

[JE McGimpsey]

have a look at neooffice 2.1:

http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/earlyaccess.php

Well, I'm not going to pay $25 for a month of an "early access" version
of 2.1 when 2.0 final hasn't even been released yet. AFAIC, it's
vaporware until at least the end of March.

I've used NeoOffice 1.x and I've played with the 2.0 beta. But I think
that their own website puts it best: "NeoOffice is fully functional and
stable enough for everyday use." That's damning oneself by faint praise
at best. None of my paying clients want to hear about NeoOffice, they
don't particularly trust it (the fact that version 1 looks terrible, and
version 2.0 beta looks not a whole lot better doesn't help) and they
sure don't trust it enough to run their macros. And It's much slower on
a Power PC platform.

OTOH, I think it would be wonderful to have a good implementation of
NeoOffice that can read and write VBA. Talk to me after March 27th...