Submission + - VBA Going Away, Mac's Now, PC's Soon 2
Nom du Keyboard writes: As Microsoft drops support for older Office file formats, it looks like Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is also going soon. Mac Office 2008 has dropped it in favor of enhanced support for AppleScript, and Office 2009 is scheduled to lose it in favor of Mac incompatible Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) or Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). This sounds like the Mother of All Backwards and Cross-Platform Incompatibilities — especially since there appears to be no transition period where both the old and new scripting languages will be simultaneously supported. And as past experience with Visual Studio .NET has shown, upgrade tools are far less than perfect. So is Microsoft shooting themselves in the upgrade foot here?
