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From: StuJol on 13 May 2010 07:17 I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few years old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....
From: Douglas J. Steele on 13 May 2010 07:42 Of course it's not the case. Office 2010 was just released, and Access is in it, with brand new functionality. -- Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP http://www.AccessMVP.com/DJSteele (no e-mails, please!) "StuJol" <StuJol(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ECF011C6-26FE-4962-87A1-13BDF8655B0C(a)microsoft.com... >I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer > supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few > years > old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....
From: Banana on 13 May 2010 07:44 On 5/13/10 4:17 AM, StuJol wrote: > I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer > supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few years > old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out.... FWIW, the death knell has been ringing for just about anything. Everyone always think there's something that's about to end. They same just about same thing regarding Apple Macintosh computers and IBM as a company and then few more. None of those, including Microsoft Access are actually dying. But that's a generalization. Here's specifics for Access: They just released a new version of Access in Office 2010. If you don't know what they have added to it, you're missing out on many features: 1) Support for table level "triggers" and "stored procedures" AKA data macros 2) In conjecture with Sharepoint, can now publish database to web and use a web browser instead of having to have Access to use the database. 3) Revamped Macro Designer. Now, for those (myself included) that didn't look like much of a feature - professional developer use VBA! However, after using it, I can see cases where using macros in some place would be beneficial especially in regards to navigation, and I would make the case that it'd be faster to use macros to drive some of those logic than to write the same VBA. This is just my opinion, though, and I'm aware others are not as big fans of the new macro designer, but that's one of new features. 4) 64-bit support. Now has both 32-bit and 64-bit version of Access. There may be more but I think those should be sufficient to show that Access definitely is not dying as many people were wondering back few years earlier when the development languished. Just one more thing. There's already a blog post asking about the _next_ version which should show you that they are also planning this so there's also long range future plans: http://blogs.msdn.com/access/archive/2009/12/03/access-15-and-sql-server.aspx HTH.
From: Jerry Whittle on 13 May 2010 08:55 I remember hearing that Access 97 was the end of the road. -- Jerry Whittle, Microsoft Access MVP Light. Strong. Cheap. Pick two. Keith Bontrager - Bicycle Builder. "StuJol" wrote: > I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer > supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few years > old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out....
From: Daniel Pineault on 13 May 2010 08:58
Every once an a while a post such as yours pops up in this forum. Based on the fact that I joined this forum back in 1999-2000, the end of MS Access was supposed to be upon us 10 years ago! The simple fact of the matter is that people either are talking about something else or they simply don't knw what they are talking about when they make statements like that. As the other posters pointed out, Access 2010 was just released! Dead I think not. It is possible that what the individual was referring to was the fact that an older version no longer is being actively supported by microsoft, but that has little to no impact on the usage of the software itself. I have clients still running Access '97 and support for that was discontinued years ago. For the time being, Access is here to stay and is a great option for a multitude of applications that other databases cannot (should not be used to) perform. -- Hope this helps, Daniel Pineault http://www.cardaconsultants.com/ For Access Tips and Examples: http://www.devhut.net Please rate this post using the vote buttons if it was helpful. "StuJol" wrote: > I keep hearing people say around my office that access is no longer > supported? is this the case now?? have read some threads but are a few years > old. I like access and will be disapointed if it is on the way out.... |