Diverting resources to do so, he said, would have required delaying Office’s 2008 release even longer, or significantly cutting back on the product’s features. Schmucker explained that VBA on the Mac was “uniquely designed for PPC architecture” and thus difficult to carry over to the Intel-native Office 2008. VBA was part of Office 2004, but Microsoft announced in August 2006 that Office 2008 would not have VBA support.
