In article <g0utq2$s2v$2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Edwin <thorne25@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Alan Baker wrote:
> > In article
> > <3a024183-96b3-4a1a-b80b-ae99ea907c0f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > Glorb <Glorb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> On May 13, 4:03 pm, Jim <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?ar...
> >>> eID=207603284
> >>>
> >>> "Microsoft on Tuesday said Office 2008 for the Mac is the hottest
> >>> selling version of the productivity suite in nearly 20 years.
> >>>
> >>> In announcing the soaring sales, the software maker also released
> >>> Service Pack 1 of Office for the Mac. SP1 in general improves the
> >>> suite's stability, security, and performance. The company also gave
a
> >>> peek of the product's roadmap by saying it would have Visual Basic
for
> >>> Applications in the next version. "
> >>>
> >>> VBA is an implementation of Microsoft's Visual Basic programming
> >>> language that's built into Office applications. By embedding the VBA
> >>> integrated development environment into software, Microsoft provides
a
> >>> familiar tool for developers customizing the suite. Microsoft
dropped
> >>> VBA from Office for the Mac after version 2004.
> >>>
> >>> Microsoft said sales of Office 2008, which launched in January, are
> >>> nearly three times what the company saw with the launch of Office
2004.
> >>> The suite is selling faster than any version in 19 years. "As we set
our
> >>> course for future versions, we are working closely with customers
and
> >>> will also expand our staff to ensure that Office for Mac remains the
> >>> most powerful and compatible productivity suite for Mac customers,"
> >>> Craig Eisler, general manager of Microsoft's Mac business unit, said
in
> >>> a statement."
> >>>
> >>> More if you care to read.
> > <snip>
> >
> >> Mac gain in worldwide market share = 0.8%
> >
> > Yet Microsoft re****ts information that they're selling more MS Office
> > for the Mac than they have in two decades and they consider it so
> > im****tant that they're reversing they're decision not to include
VBA...
>
> Yet after more than 20 years of running the race, and claiming to be the
> fastest they've ever been, Apple is still 100 laps behind the front
runner.
LOL
Sorry, Edwin, but what's past is past.
What's interesting is what's going on *today*, and today (and for the
past four years) Apple has been growing far faster than the industry.
--
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" --
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix
with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on
Mac OS X)
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' --
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)
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