The support of Office 2004 for Mac should have ended Tuesday, October 13, 2009, but Microsoft has finally decided to give a broad period of grace to this productivity suite. The main support has been extended until January 10, 2012. An extension that will have no impact on Microsoft's policy on the matter, with other products for Mac (and future) still affected by a main support for a period of five years.
If Office 2004 for Mac has a special diet, it is because of Visual Basic for Applications that enables you to develop macros for Office applications. The implementation of the Visual Basic language has in fact been done in Office 2008 for Mac, the latest version currently marketed. But VBA is cons indeed present in Office 2004 for Mac that has prompted a number of users not migrated to version 2008.
This new deadline of January 10, 2012 has been chosen to "ensure the continuity of a cross-platform compatibility for Office 2004 customers depend on VBA to support VBA in the next version of 'Office for Mac, "he said Microsoft.
Scheduled for the end of 2010 the United States, the next version of Office for Mac would therefore sign the return of VBA. Entourage will be replaced by a version of Outlook for Mac fully developed in Cocoa, a new database for faster access will be proposed with support of backup Time Machine and Spotlight search feature. Also announced, a feature of management rights to information.
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