{"id":4199,"date":"2009-08-16T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2009-08-16T17:56:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T00:56:15","slug":"newsletter-507-preview-microsoft-continues-to-believe-changing-names-means-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2009\/08\/newsletter-507-preview-microsoft-continues-to-believe-changing-names-means-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #507 Preview: Microsoft Continues to <br \/>Believe Changing Names Means Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now consider that the email component of Office for the Mac, Entourage, is a direct descendant of the free version, Outlook Express. 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In fact, I\u2019m willing to suggest that any excuse they offer for not doing so is a load of nonsense. And, my friends, I find it difficult to believe that they couldn\u2019t graft Visual Basic for Applications onto Office 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2009\/08\/newsletter-issue-507\/#2008\">Story continued in this week&#8217;s Tech Night Owl Newsletter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now consider that the email component of Office for the Mac, Entourage, is a direct descendant of the free version, Outlook Express. Without considering the source code itself, I expect that the changes were evolutionary until Microsoft changed their app to Universal to run naive on Intel-based Macs. 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