no visual basic scripting will kill any business users of macintosh. lots of businesss rely on vb to run applications. Removing support for VB scripting is just another way for MS to keep market share, without making it look like it is... if you get what i mean. they say that they we can use applescript, but hundreds of business rely on vb, so they cant use it on intel macs. the business is left with two choices. run windows, or re-create all your spreadsheets, macros, formats etc to run on a different office suite.
for average joe, Pages and Keynote are fine IMO. I only ever use TextEdit at home.
and for who-ever asked what visual basic is.. its a programming language that is included with office (well was as of 2008), which is used to perform more functions than the standard set, or to do complicated calculations.
I remember learning it in school to write programs for school work. One of the easist languages i have ever learnt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_basic