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Office 2008 SP1 and VBA!

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It's Release Tuesday here at Microsoft, and we've got a couple of things coming out of MacBU today:

I'm not versed enough in the dirty details to talk about VBA at any length, so I'll instead point you over to Schwieb's blog: Saying hello (again) to Visual Basic. He's got more details, and he's also asking questions of you, dear VBA users, about what parts of the VBA experience are the most important. Have your voice heard and tell us what's useful (and while you're responding to him, don't forget my post a couple of weeks ago about features vs scenarios -- give lots of details as to what would impact you the most).

Office 2008 has been treating us very well so far. Since our launch in January, we've sold nearly three times as many copies as we sold of Office 2004 after its launch. We've had a lot of incoming data about Office 2008 through the Office forums, the feedback submitted through the apps, the Customer Experience Improvement Program, and the Microsoft Error Reporting Protocol (MERP - because we loves us some acronyms). Through all of this feedback, we identified the highest-impact issues to fix, which include:

  • compatibility fixes across the suite
  • printing issues across the suite
  • Excel's custom error bars get their formatting options back
  • several Exchange improvements in Entourage
  • improved AppleScript support in Entourage and PowerPoint (fixed by the guy in the office next to mine -- I heard his cheers)

Not to just point to Schwieb again, but he wrote a great post about Office 2008 SP1 too.

In our press release, our fearless leader notes that we're expanding our staff. We've got several positions open right now, and more coming in the next few months. If you think you might be interested in joining our team, you can check out the Microsoft Careers website. All of our positions are listed under "Mac Office". I just searched and saw that there were 10, across development, test, and program management. We're going to have some more user experience positions open (both research and design); drop me an email if you're interested in learning more.

(Edited at 11:10am PDT to add a couple of links and to fix a formatting issue.)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2008
    Hey, they finally capitalize "Mac" correctly!

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2008
    We actually got that one fixed awhile ago (six months or more now).  It was a huge hassle to get it fixed, but fixed it is.

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2008
    Nadyne, thanks for the SP1 update. Word 2008 does, indeed, seem to be more stable. Serious question though: Why does it take Word 2008 so long to launch? I'm running an Intel MacBook and it takes over 20 seconds. However, I can launch Word 2007 in Parallels and it launches in less than 5 seconds. Why is this?