Comments on: Microsoft's Mac unit gets new boss

Eric Wilfrid will assume leadership of the group that creates Office for Mac, replacing Craig Eisler.

[Mr. Dee]

The only reason I think of for the staff growth is the engineering talent needed to help port Visual Basic scripting support for Office for Mac on Intel. The team dropped support for it in Office 2008 because they considered it to be a huge under taking that would hold back the release of the product. The Office for Mac Team announced a few months back that the next release would bring it back.

[ittesi259]

Its be nice to get Viso or Project ported to Mac....I hate having to Bootcamp back and forth.

[Galaxy5]

Craig probably committed the sin of believing that he had the support of management in making "The best office suite for Mac".

Ballmer and what's-his-face-the-Windows-guy made comments last month that the Mac version of Office was sub-par to the PC version, which is exactly the opposite of what the Mac Business Unit has been telling Mac users for several years now.

[Galaxy5]

":Its be nice to get Viso or Project ported to Mac"

Ha! Keep dreaming. Microsoft makes boatloads of money every time they sell to one of us Mac users in the Enterprise. Between extra copies of Windows for BootCamp and/or having a spare PC for Project/Acess/Visio, they are raking in the dough from Mac users.

[lantzn]

You might look into Crossover for Mac to run Visio. You don't need to install Windows to run Windows apps which is a plus.

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/
Visio compatibility
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?letter=v;

[Mr. Dee]

The only way I see Project, Visio, OneNote and Access getting ported to the Mac is through VMWare Fusion Unity or Parallels Coherence mode. Of course, Microsoft is not doing to obviously keep the relevance of Windows and Office for Windows going. I don't even think the next version of Office for Mac will feature better support for Entourage with Exchange server.