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Office 2008 for Mac in second half of 2007
The Microsoft BU has just announced that Office 2008 for Mac will be released in the second half of 2007. Office 2008 will be Universal (hurrah!) and include a number of Mac only features:- Publishing Layout Views - Let's you create newsletters and things by presenting the related Office tools in a new layout
- Ledger Sheets - Makes managing your finances even easier in Excel
- My Day - A new stand alone application that lets you stay on top of your activities across Office applications
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rufus McGillicudy said 6:45PM on 1-09-2007
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.
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andrew said 6:48PM on 1-09-2007
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.
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Patrick said 7:34PM on 1-09-2007
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!
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Jacques Lema said 8:13PM on 1-09-2007
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.
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Tony Ward said 8:47PM on 1-09-2007
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
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Bearxor said 10:26PM on 1-09-2007
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.
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BrianM said 10:06PM on 1-09-2007
If VBA isn't included, in my opinion they might as well not bother...
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Glen L. Harvey said 7:50PM on 1-10-2007
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...
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