With the release of Office 2008 for the Mac, Microsoft has dropped all support for PowerBid's underlying macro language, visual basic for applications. As a result of this PowerBid in not compatible with Office 2008. Mac users wishing to use PowerBid will have to do so using Office 2004. Due to the massive protest from users and developers, Microsoft has announced they will reinstate VBA support in the next major release of Office for the Mac. No release date has been announced.