Office 2004 for Mac granted extended run to appease VBA fans

Well what does that mean?

I suppose that post could be interpreted to mean there will be no new Office for Mac with VBA support before 2012. Is that what we are supposed to infer?

Lack of VBA has crippled Office for me but it did created a sale for Parallels.

Why should I use MS Office?

I'm trying to find a reason to use MS Office and am having a hard time. Openoffice seems to provide all of the features that I need with support for the older versions of MS Office documents. What features do the new 2008 MS offerings have that are worth the difference in price (free vs. $$$)?

Don't get me wrong, I really like the new Windows 7 and plan to upgrade all my desktop machines to it. I just don't see any return on investment for an Office Suite upgrade or outright purchase for a couple of machines that don't have it already. The ability to run on a Mac is nice also since that's what my wife uses at school.

@Barracoder

More pointedly to this phrase

"Or did your correspondence decide, as seems much more likely, to just begin talking directly out of his arse?"

Or more so this word

"his"

Methinks Kelly is a she boss. Though I will agree with you on that one. I think this fine young lady might be getting kickbacks under the table to talk up OpenOffice :P

OO is crap in a business environment when its dominated by office. Great any other time though.

VBA

VBA is spawn of the fucking devil because it lets people with fuck-all programming ability write mission-critical systems behind the IT department's back, then they turn round and say "it's not working, can you fix it". Bastards.

Re: VBA Devil Spawn

If you think that is bad --- try VB combined with CORBA --- a nest of daemons.

I say VBA should be allowed to die!!!!!!!!!!

Microsoft Giveth and Microsoft Taketh Away

... but mostly taketh away. Then charges you for the next upgrade to get some of it back again.

Microsoft charge you to upgrade to an incomplete product, and charge you again to fill in some of the gaps.

Happened with Orifice 2007. Take away customisation of the tool bars, and give you an inadequate quick access toolbar. Then charge you for the upgrade to 2010 when you can customise the ribbons.

The only reason

to use their crap is being forced to do so by clueless decision-makers for the sake of being "compatible". The crap doesn't even remember its own fucking settings. I say nuke 'em from orbit (can we have an icon for that, please?).

Microsoft – making money from people's ignorance for more than 30 years.

OO

Excellent - crap. Also surely it's either iFanboys or Fanbois?