[FatherofFive]

You'll be able to preview almost all new Windows features ahead of time... ;-)

But for business, Excel still rules.

I help companies design powerful and sophisticated solutions using Excel with VBA. VBA is just not available on Apple OS.

You could spend millions on a solution with SAP, but we could give you better functionality for $100,000.

[PreciousLiberty]

“But for business, Excel still rules.”

To some extent, yes. Excel is of course available on Mac, though without ActiveX (it supports VBA IIRC).

“I help companies design powerful and sophisticated solutions using Excel with VBA. VBA is just not available on Apple OS.”

Well, that is one approach. A more modern and more powerful approach might be to develop Web applications using the full power of a backend like Java. That way you can easily support mobile devices, for one thing. Plus, you get to use a full-fledged computer language rather than scripting. ;-)

“You could spend millions on a solution with SAP, but we could give you better functionality for $100,000.”

That’s great. It should also be pointed out, though, that you can easily run a full Windows environment under MacOS using a VM - inside a sandbox to contain viruses and other Windows malware. The best of both worlds! :-)

[PreciousLiberty]

By the way, you might want to check out PC Magazine's review of the Retina MacBook Pro. It was selected as an "Editor's Choice". Pretty wild coming from a Windows-centric magazine...

This "next-generation" MacBook Pro hasn't just caught up to the thin and powerful Windows laptops and ultrabooks on the market; it has surpassed them to become the high-end choice for media professionals, enthusiasts, and general Mac fans alike. As such, the MacBook Pro is our new Editors' Choice for high-end desktop replacement laptop PCs.

[jacquej]

Did you know that Excel was originally written for the Mac?

All the PC people poo-pooed it at the time. That was way back when Gates worked with Jobs, and before Gates decided to go to the dark side.

I know, because I used Excel on my Mac back then, and had to tolerate the sneers of my “professional” friends who refused to even try Excel.

[MarkL]

I help companies design powerful and sophisticated solutions using Excel with VBA. VBA is just not available on Apple OS.

No, but Virtual Box (free) or VMware Fusion (inexpensive) allows one to run any Windows app on a Mac.

Mark

[antiRepublicrat]

I help companies design powerful and sophisticated solutions using Excel with VBA.

Again, please quit using that abomination VB, and please tell me you don't actually use Excel to store the data, only to represent it for users.