Alan Baker wrote:
> 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.
Why do they still have less than 4% of the market? When will they
regain their year 2000 level?
http://www.systemshootouts.org/images/mac_sales_market_share_lg.gif
Apple will have to sell 27 million Macs per year to come up to 10% of
the market. Their best year so far is almost 8 million Macs a year.
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