Microsoft Office is about the tools too
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft's Office is a development platform, and don't you forget it. KD Hallman, a general manager in Microsoft's Visual Studio division, delivered a keynote address at the VSLive conference here extolling the benefits of Office 2007 and it components for developers.
Microsoft announced a new SDK for VSTA, a key tool in the Office repertoire. VSTA is the successor to VBA. And VBA is an embedded integration tool that has been in the market for 10 years and used by some 20 million developers, Hallman said.