Re: VBA to return in the next version of Office Mac !?

Phillip Jones wrote:


Corentin Cras-Méneur wrote:
Daiya Mitchell <daiyaNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Note that "next version" means next purchased upgrade, *not* an update
to Office 2008.

Which means 2010, 2011......

Corentin

or 2013... 2014.... ;-)

Hi Phil,

Microsoft has targeted 2 year cycles for Office and Windows for many years. But the future is always a moving target. By those standards Vista was more than 4 years late.

I think the most realistic way to phrase it is that a timetable will be developed internally based on guesstimates as to how long it will take to build a new VBA compiler.

Combine that with any new features that might be being planned for the next version and however long those will take and hopefully you'll realize that coming up with any sort of a firm date is nearly impossible.

Plan, build, test, deploy. Each of those steps takes an indeterminate amount of time. Deciding when software is "done" is akin to deciding when a cake is done. When it smells good and tastes good it's ready.

-Jim

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