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Yep, I think people tend to gloss over how smooth these transitions really were. From a creative professional perspective, they were huge short-term PITA until
by flomo 9y ago
Yep, I think people tend to gloss over how smooth these transitions really were. From a creative professional perspective, they were huge short-term PITA until Adobe etc had everything ported over. Also Excel lost VBA support for several years.
- whatok 9y agoI remember everything audio was a mess although I'd imagine a lot of it had to do with smaller developers lacking resources to port existing software.
- emodendroket 9y agoLosing VBA support stinks, but do any professional Excel users even consider Office for Mac?
- flomo 9y agoAt least for me "professional Excel users" sent out stuff that I could not open, and that is not good for the for the platform. "Spreadsheet macros" were like hot personal computing shit in 1983. Really not good if you cannot create them in 2008. , (Few complaints about the current Mac MS Office, FWIW) I'm just saying that breaking old stuff often takes year to fix.
- emodendroket 9y agoNo, I get it. I just think that, in general, people who spend a big chunk of most of their work days using Excel kind of consider anything other than Windows MS Office Excel a non-starter.
- Eric_WVGG 9y agoAdobe's transition was somewhat rough because they took the Carbon route, and then had to do it again to switch over to Cocoa. I expect that now that all their apps are built on Cocoa, the transition will be relatively breezy.