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VB on Mac Office 2007">Microsoft, VB on Mac Office 2007

By Nick Hodge | August 10, 2006

In a very hon­est post, Say­ing Good­bye to Visual Basic, Erik Schwiebert from the MacBU goes into detail on the deep, tech­nical reas­ons why VB is going to be left out of the next Mac ver­sion of Office.

The nuances of the pain­ful decision, based on hard tech­nical sweat, are shown in depth — and illus­trate the quite com­mon pro­cesses soft­ware com­pan­ies have to go through when their plat­form mutates.

Maybe if the CLR goes MacOS, and the lan­guages like C# make it to Mac, and there is a com­mon Win Office/Mac Office object model — the world will be in a bet­ter place?

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