I was looking for an official announcement of the end of life of VBScript but could not find one. Instead I stumbled across the following MSDN blog post with a vague reference: "I believe that it was [at the] IT Forum in Nov 2005 that this was announced." A colorful blog post from Ryan Stemkoski made me laugh, the comments are interesting also. The closest I could find to an official Microsoft announcement was a blog post five years ago by Eric Lippert, who admitted to being the last person to ever add a feature to VBScript, in November 2000.
Month: August 2009
Office 2003/2007 Coexistence
If you have Office 2003 you can read Office 2007 documents by installing Microsoft’s compatibility pack.
If you have Office 2007 you can make it save in Office 2003 format by default instead of having to remember each time you save, see this article by howtogeek
Granite Telecommunications
I met this week with Rob Hale, CEO of Granite Telecommunications. Granite Telecom is an enterprise wireline wholesaler specializing in providing consolidated billing and service for multi-location businesses: 3/4 million lines from Verizon, Qwest, AT&T; and others to 10,000 customers in over 100,000 locations. The company was established in 2002 and ranked in the Inc. 500 in 2007 and 2008: revenues in 2009 are expected to approach $400M. Customers include USPS, Walmart, CVS, 7-Eleven, McDonalds, Verizon, Sprint, Comcast, GE and over half the Fortune 100. Interestingly Rob’s previous business, Network Plus (NPLS), was also a telecom wholesaler, growing from its inception in 1990 to a public IPO in 1999 to 300,000 lines, 75,000 customers and $284M sales before overspending on network hardware, being forced into bankruptcy in February 2002 and having its assets sold to Broadview Networks for $16M. Granite was started four months later and is still debt free.