I have a working trial balance Excel spreadsheet with macros that is used by a couple of people in the office. We built it originally in Lotus and migrated it to Excel. In XP with Excel 2007 the macro still worked. In Vista with Excel 2007 it works but only sorta… and doesn’t quite do what it’s supposed to do.
My next phase of Vista rollouts which will include rolling out 64bit versions of Vista is dependent on me finding a fix for this issue as this worksheet macro program is used heavily by the person in the office next slated for an upgrade.
I’ve got pings into folks that do Excel macros but this is the sort of issues that I don’t think is well addresseed about Vista deployment issues. The little line of business cases that a typical firm doesn’t have the test equipment to ferret out and the resources to deal with it. In our case the macro is one that is long overdue to being addressed as we need to get it more functional than it is or devise a new solution. So in our case this “Vista block” is a good thing as it’s forcing us to fix something that has been broken as a process for a long time.
We expanded this year’s virtual event to give you greater access to Microsoft executives and other partners. New this year, you can participate in live webcasts to ask Microsoft executives about the issues impacting your business. And following each webcast, you can continue the dialogue with Microsoft experts and other partners on the Digital WPC blog site.
HERE’S HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED – WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
1. Visit the Digital WPC site and send us questions that you’d like to be covered during our upcoming webcasts (questions should be specific to each webcast topic). You can submit questions using the ‘Tell us what you think’ button on the Digital WPC site or you can send them directly to v-jpierc@microsoft.com .
2. Watch the on demand replay of our first event – Windows Vista and the Partner Experience – and post your comments and questions on the Digital WPC Windows Vista blog. Microsoft team members are on hand to answer questions posted to the blog.
3. Be active on all Digital WPC blog sites. Even if you can’t participate during the live event, Microsoft team members will be visiting each Digital WPC blog to answer partner questions posted to the site. Please Note: each blog will go live shortly following the webcast event. The Digital WPC Windows Vista blog is now live.
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