Office 2008 for Mac in second half of 2007

Unfortunately the removal and it will be removed of VB Scripting capabilites for offcie 2008 will have a far reaching affect on all mac users in a windows environment. The work around is supposedly using realbasic. I am interested in find out more people are going to handle this situation. My understanding is that applescript will be the scripting language but that doesn't even begin to help with cross platform issues does it. Will there ever be a non-microsoft cross platform solution to the Office horror story ? BTW don't forget your converters you will need them...

If VBA isn't included, in my opinion they might as well not bother...

Patrick, while I completely agree with you, Entourage is not going anywhere. All I really want from Microsoft is a carbonized version of Outlook 2001. Entourage works great for home users but sucks badly for corporate users on an Exchange server.

Thank God the IT department at work is skeptical of Office 2007... personally, I'm looking forward to staving off the "ribbon" for as long as possible. =P

You have to admire the perverted minds at Microsoft that came up with the "Office Open XML" name, just to confuse anyone hearing about OpenOffice's XML based format.

In the meantime, only 10 more months of explaining to my clients why Entourage is a giant POS and bogs down once they have any significant amount of data in their mailbox/calendar despite the fact that Outlook 2001 was able to work just fine for them 5 years ago. Thanks Microsoft!

Yes! The future for Apple looks real bright! Leopard, iPhone, Universal Office 2008, AppleTV........the first 30 were really the beginning!

And anyways, i'm sick of the long time it takes for the current Office. And its ugly.

Am I correct in remembering that VBA will no longer be part of Office for Mac as of this release? They plan to cut what is, for Excel at least, the program's most important distinguishing feature.