Microsoft would have to rearchitect Office for Mac to keep it going past 2011. Here are the top rationale for my Office for Mac sunset premise: By then, I think it will be, and that Apple will see that it's done in The Apple Way, which co-opts other technology to suck developers and users into the platform, then never lets them go. That is, if it's not simply taken for granted that Windows apps run on OS X. In 2011, Office's packaging, be it virtual or physical, will have an OS X (or whatever it's called then) and Windows (or whatever) logo stamped on it side by side. Do you even know who will be President in 2011? The moral of the story: Edit your blogs with vi.Īs I bring a close to my discussion of Office for Mac ramping down over the next five years, keep something in mind: I'm talking about 2011. That was in my cut buffer when I meant to paste this follow-up. I was refreshing my memory using an ancient column of mine from Windows NT Systems. The deleted post on the realities of commercial software development was an editorial blunder.
