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| message from =?Utf-8?B?Sm9zaHVh?= on 12 May 2004 |
I heard that Microsoft is "trying to discontinue" MS Access. Does any MVP know the details?
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| Albert D. Kallal replied to =?Utf-8?B?Sm9zaHVh?= on 12 May 2004 |
know the details?
No..in fact the size of the developer team is growing......
In fact, there is not even a hint of letting ms-access go away....
The people at Microsoft are working hard on the next version..and are
investing into the product.
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| Brendan Reynolds replied to =?Utf-8?B?Sm9zaHVh?= on 12 May 2004 |
That rumour has been going around for about four years now. It seems to have
started when Microsoft announced that Access 2000 would ship with a second
database engine (MSDE) in addition to Jet. This was seen as the end of Jet,
and many people seem to assumed that if Jet was being dropped, Access must
also be about to be dropped.
Ask yourself how reliable is your source? Does this information come from
someone with direct inside knowledge of Microsoft's long-term plans? If not,
it's nothing more than rumour and speculation, and not worth listening to,
much less repeating.
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| =?Utf-8?B?Sm9zaHVh?= replied to Brendan Reynolds on 12 May 2004 |
I heard the news from Microsoft people in Asia Pacific office. BTW, what does it mean by "change all of their Office products to the .NET platform".
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| Brendan Reynolds replied to =?Utf-8?B?Sm9zaHVh?= on 12 May 2004 |
That doesn't answer the question. Just because someone works for Microsoft
does not mean that they have inside knowledge of Microsoft's long-term
plans. Any Microsoft employee who does have such knowledge will have signed
a non-disclosure agreement undertaking not to discuss it, so unless you also
have signed such an agreement, the more willing they are to discuss it with
you, the less likely it is that they actually know anything about it.
I wouldn't know, as I am not the person who said that.
The bottom line is that there is absolutely no evidence that Microsoft have
any plans to drop Access, and if they do someday decide to do so, they will
undoubtedly continue to support the most recent version for a number of
years (they are only now phasing out support for Access 97). So if and when
Microsoft announce any such decision, we'll all have several years to decide
what to do about it.
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| Arvin Meyer replied to =?Utf-8?B?Sm9zaHVh?= on 12 May 2004 |
Access, with approximately 250 million users and millions of active
databases, will NOT be discontinued. It is an integral part of Office.
Microsoft is endeavoring to change all of their Office products to the .NET
platform.
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