Yeah, it's VBA. Of course, we have been crippled by VBA on the Mac side for years. This just makes it official.

On Ars Technica, the discussion has brought up a point I made - perhaps cross-platform 3rd party programming is the way to go. Perl and Python are natively shipped with OS X, and now it has just been announced that Ruby will ship on all Macs. I dabbled in Python a couple of years ago, so don't know, but that might at least keep some semblance of cross-platform capability.

My thinking is that Apple will now expand/enhance iWork (Pages and Keynote) to incorporate some spreadsheet along with Mail and iCal to provide some Office Suite. Keynote is far ahead of Powerpoint in several ways. Pages offers a very good writing environment (doesn't get in the way like Word tries to do), but it has nowhere near the Word capabilities. I personally use Mellel because it handles Hebrew and Greek so well (it is designed/developed in Israel).