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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 now on sale, downloadable for upgraders

by Michael Rose (Oct 26th, 2010)

It's been percolating for ages, maturing like a fine wine and fermenting like a premium cheese: the latest edition of Microsoft Office for the Mac, Office 2011 (or Office 14, if you're counting version numbers) has finally made it to market. Enterprise and education customers have had access to the ...

Office 2004 mainstream support extended to January '12

by Dave Caolo (Oct 13th, 2009)

As you probably recall, Microsoft dropped Visual Basic from Office for the Mac with Office 2008. At the time, I was working for a company that had a huge investment in systems that relied on Visual Basic, and that change was a real blow. In fact, we didn't upgrade past Office 2004 just to avoid ...

MacTech re-releases VBA to AppleScript Transition Guide

by Dave Caolo (Mar 28th, 2008)

As someone who spent months hand-crafting Visual Basic scripts in Microsoft Office, only to have Microsoft pull the rug out from under me with the release of Office 2008 (they abandoned VB support for the Mac. Grrr.), I'm very grateful to MacTech magazine and longtime AppleScript guru Paul ...

No Visual Basic in Office 2008? No thanks.

by Dave Caolo (Feb 21st, 2007)

MacWindows.com recently polled readers on their willingness to upgrade to Office 2008 for Mac, which will not include Visual Basic for macros and automation (as noted on this MacBU developer blog). Several readers said they won't upgrade to 2008 because they depend on VB cross-platform support. ...

Mono Allows .NET and VB Apps on the Mac

by Mat Lu (Feb 20th, 2007)

Mono is an interesting Open Source Project, sponsored by Novell, that "provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix." The most recent version, 1.2.3, adds support for a Visual Basic 8.0 compiler meaning that ...