On 10/8/2011 2:27, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 07/10/2011 11:45 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 10/7/2011 7:36, Invisible wrote:
>>> I'm fairly sure Office v2 had that. I may be wrong. Certainly Office 97
>>> definitely had that. And that was, what, 14 years ago?
>>
>> Pretty sure they didn't have .NET integration,
>
> No. But how is that useful?

It's useful for people trying to script Office apps from (say) PowerShell. 
Or from any other .NET-enabled language. It's useful in the same way that 
.NET stored procedures are useful in SQL.

>> integration with SQL server,
>
> I'm fairly sure Office 97 quite happily let you connect to any database with
> an ODBC driver. (That's kind of the whole point of ODBC.)

I wasn't aware they had actually let macros get to that.

>> or cooperative shared editting.
>
> It's news to me that /any/ version of Office has that.

That's kind of my point.

>>> In fairness, I'm not aware of anything else that does what Outlook and
>>> Exchange do.
>>
>> And that is why the world still runs Microsoft. :-)
>
> Well, no, that's /one of/ the reasons...

Fair enough. But I think that's one of the *main* reasons small businesses 
without a bunch of money still use it on the desktop.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   How come I never get only one kudo?

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