I know that 2003 has been out for a while, but my clients are a little slow,
and are still on 2002 SP2. (Well, so am I.) Any reason not to go to SP3?
Any reason to? Any reason to push for 2003? Everything I've heard about
2003 simply touts the html connection, which they don't need right now or
anytime soon.

Thanks,

Kevin

Some think the help content is better in Access 2003; most agree that the
revised Help user interface is worse and point out that good content isn't
useful unless you can find it. Other than that... there was little
Access-specific change between 2002 and 2003. Most of the changes were
cross-Office and most were enhancements only for enterprise level
collaboration.

I am expecting more significant changes in Access' next version.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP



"Kevin Witty" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:r0Pxc.5528$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I know that 2003 has been out for a while, but my clients are a little
slow,
> and are still on 2002 SP2. (Well, so am I.) Any reason not to go to SP3?
> Any reason to? Any reason to push for 2003? Everything I've heard about
> 2003 simply touts the html connection, which they don't need right now or
> anytime soon.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>

Yes...go to SP3 for ACCESS 2002! Can't tell you all that it fixes, but it
does fix some bugs and security issues. Here is more info about what it
does.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=offxp


There is not a lot of difference between ACCESS 2002 and 2003. 2003 is
better at handling XML; it's Help files are improved for finding things, but
the most current Help and most complete Help is available only via online;
it has a default library setting for DAO library; it still uses 2002/2000
table format. 2003 (as does 2002) has some GUI bugs related to Windows XP
when XP theme is turned on.

If all is well with 2002, likely you'll not find a compelling reason (yet)
to upgrade to 2003. I am sticking with 2002 for the moment; others have gone
to 2003 and liked it.
--

Ken Snell
<MS ACCESS MVP>


"Kevin Witty" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:r0Pxc.5528$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I know that 2003 has been out for a while, but my clients are a little
slow,
> and are still on 2002 SP2. (Well, so am I.) Any reason not to go to SP3?
> Any reason to? Any reason to push for 2003? Everything I've heard about
> 2003 simply touts the html connection, which they don't need right now or
> anytime soon.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>

Thanks, Larry and Ken.

I've been in this business for 30-odd years, and am frankly appalled by what
MS considers a "released product". Help is a joke (Google does better on
searches), the whole References thing is a disaster, "Microsoft Office has
encountered a problem.." defines itself when it occurs 3 times a day during
development for no apparent reason.

A friend of mine ran the IBM MVS development project for some years, and
does not speak favorably about the percentage of bugs vs. lines of code in
MVS vs. Windows.

I really appreciate your honesty, but isn't it time we started saying, "I'm
mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more!"

Sorry, just letting off steam, and I guess I will go to Office 2002, SR3 in
2004. What progress!

Somebody in Redmond ain't doin' something right.

Kevin