[AccessD] VBA abandoned in Office 2008 for Mac

There are a lot of reasons for dropping VBA
One being Mac's are now Intel based.

An Intel chip based  Mac can run a virtual version of XP and Office.
Office 2007 can run in  Parallel Coherence mode.
You can convert VBA to Apple Script

Here is the technical reason from MS MacBusinessUnit for dropping VBA

http://www.schwieb.com/blog/2006/08/08/saying-goodbye-to-visual-basic/

You have no idea just how ancient VBA really is...

 The "mummy's curse" that killed Lord Carnarvon during the excavation
 of King Tut's tomb was actually a VBA script.

Ken Ismert wrote:

>The first shoe has dropped: Microsoft has abandoned VBA in its latest 
>Office suite for the Macintosh:
>
>Mac Users Face Hurdles with New Office Versions
>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2138349,00.asp?kc=EWKNLINF053007STR4
>
>Although there is a converter tool for older Office documents, with 
>promises for VBA support in the future, Mac developers are encouraged to 
>use Applescript instead.
>
>Access developers have to at least consider the possibility that Office 
>2007 will be the last version of Office that will natively run VBA.
>
>-Ken
>  
>

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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada