[AccessD] VBA abandoned in Office 2008 for Mac

(Marty)
 > Are you reading the same post. He is discussing 2007 macros and VBA ...

Yes, the same post. Just lines below your quote, a reader asks point-blank:

"However do you confirm that VBA will be supported from the next release 
of Access?"

No answer.

You can interpret that any way you care, but I don't consider that a 
positive confirmation that VBA will be natively supported in Office 14. 
A just-as-plausible interpretation is that VBA is replaced with VSTA in 
the next Office, and we get a separate conversion/backwards 
compatibility tool with read-only legacy VBA support, a-la Mac. And 
Office 2007 users still have 7 or 8 years of  legacy support for their 
VBA apps. That scenario meets the letter of Clint's rather bland 
affirmation.

Recall, all development of VB6 and VBA ceased in 1998. Microsoft has a 
10-year legacy support window. Now, in 2008, VBA is gone in the latest 
Office release. All extended support for VB6 has ceased. It would be 
extraordinary for Microsoft to continue including unsupported code in 
its upcoming Office releases.

Microsoft is putting nearly a billion dollars into the next version of 
Office. All of that code will be .NET code. That sounds like a complete 
rewrite to me.

In my view, the consequences of thinking maybe its time to look at new 
technologies are only positive, while the consequences of assuming VBA 
will always be around are neutral at best, and could potentially be bad 
for your career, if you do lose your bet.

So, I think it is incumbent on the 'VBA forever' side to come up with 
the home-run: a clear affirmation of native VBA support in Office 14 
from a credible source.

-Ken