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From: MikeD on 25 Apr 2010 22:05


"Mayayana" <mayayana(a)invalid.nospam> wrote in message
news:ODMc$OO5KHA.4264(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> | Seems M$ is
> | always chasing someone else's technology so they can maintain their
> | "edge", offering us dupe technology being passed off as their own.
> | -Again, nothing new there either!
> |
>
> The me-too news this week is that MS is going
> to team up with Facebook to set up an online
> version of Office. People on Facebook will be able
> to "share docs with their friends". That's about as
> desperate as it gets.

Could this get any more off-topic? Perhaps if you want to continue this, you
should take it elsewhere so those of us wanting to read VB-related
discussions don't have to wade through this dribble?

--
Mike


From: ralph on 26 Apr 2010 00:03
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:44:25 +0200, "Helmut Meukel"
<NoSpam(a)NoProvider.de> wrote:


>
>To me this looks like M$ dropped VSTA, or do you think they will support both?
>I copied the above from:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee691831(office.14).aspx
>

M$ has not dropped support for 'VSTA' and there is a VS2010 release.

Both Office VSTA and VBA will continue to exist for some time.

Note that while there is considerable overlap in application these are
two distinct and totally unrelated technologies.

-ralph
From: Karl E. Peterson on 26 Apr 2010 16:34
Nobody wrote:
> "GS" <GS(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:e3pP4DJ5KHA.5880(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Also, VBA isn't limited to just M$O apps; ..more and more software now
>> supports built in automation by licensing VBA from M$. <BTW> I see M$ has
>> released VBA7 for the 64-bit versions of M$O. Where's VB7 for 64-bit
>> Windows????
>
> Off topic: MS stopped licensing VBA for new customers. It's basically in
> maintenance mode. New customers who want VBA have to use the .Nxt variant.

Agree and disagree. Yeah, I don't think they're letting anyone else
use it. But would an update to support 64-bit be considered
maintenance mode??? I don't think so! For your consideration:

===============================
Introducing the VBA 7 Code Base

VBA 7 is a new code base, replacing the earlier version of VBA. VBA 7
exists for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Office 2010. It
provides two conditional compilation constants: VBA7 and Win64. The
VBA7 constant helps ensure the backward compatibility of your code by
testing whether your application is using VBA 7 or the previous version
of VBA. The Win64 constant is used to test whether code is running as
32-bit or as 64-bit.
Both of these compilation constants are demonstrated later in this
article.

With certain exceptions shown elsewhere in this article, the macros in
a document (this also includes workbook and presentations) that have
worked by using the 32-bit version of that application will work when
the document is loaded in the 64-bit version of the same application.
===============================
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee691831%28office.14%29.aspx

Lots more *eye-opening* stuff on that page, too.

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From: Karl E. Peterson on 26 Apr 2010 16:35
GS wrote:
> Fact is, it won't surprise me at all if M$ switches from using VBA as their
> built-in macro language to some .Net/Silverlight spin-off! -Again, nothing
> new there either.

They'd very much like to! But they can't. The ship sinks when Office
upgrades stall.

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From: Karl E. Peterson on 26 Apr 2010 16:38
Mayayana wrote:
> The me-too news this week is that MS is going
> to team up with Facebook to set up an online
> version of Office. People on Facebook will be able
> to "share docs with their friends". That's about as
> desperate as it gets.

Docs.com: The surest sign yet of Microsoft's defeat | Betanews
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Docscom-The-surest-sign-yet-of-Microsofts-defeat/1271955562

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