No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs 296
Techie writes "Microsoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh. The amount of time it would take to bring Virtual PC to Intel would be roughly equivalent to creating the product from scratch, Scott Erickson, director of product management and marketing for Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit, told eWEEK. The article says Microsoft will also be discontinuing support of Visual Basic scripting in the next version of Office for Mac." From the article: "As cross-platform compatibility remains a top priority at Microsoft, Erickson says that as the company develops the next version of Office for Mac, the files will continue to be compatible across platforms, including with the 2007 Microsoft Office System for Windows. VB macros within files will not be accessible and users will not be able to view or modify them. However, the files themselves can be edited without affecting or changing the macros. "
Removal of VB macro's (Score:4, Funny)
Timing? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:VPC isn't the only virtualization solution (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, Paris Hilton is not having sex for a year! Oh my, I just saw a pig fly. I'm going back inside now.
Correction (Score:4, Funny)
Or, in other words, 6+ years. I don't blame them!
What the hell? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Now they've got Apple by the corones.. (Score:3, Funny)
Do what now? (Score:5, Funny)
newspeak (Score:5, Funny)
This must be some new and novel definition of "compatible" of which I was previously unaware.
MS-Office --- the office-suite that is not even compatible to the same version of itself .
Hilarious.
Re:The Nail That Sticks Up... (Score:2, Funny)
This was quite possibly the most nonsensical comment that I've ever read on slashdot. Most impressive.
Cross-Platform Compatibility? (Score:5, Funny)
Great. Now I have to spend the next 20 minutes scraping coffee and lung material off of my keyboard and monitor.
This is a feature, yes? (Score:5, Funny)
This sounds like a huge benefit! Maybe it'll encourage a few more people to switch, to improve the security of their Office environment. I'm not an Apple fanboy, but kudos to Microsoft for this security unhancement. Perhaps if this goes well, they'll similarly unhance the Windows version of Office.
Re-Write! (Score:3, Funny)
And if there is one thing Micorsoft doesn't do, it's rewrite software from scratch.