Access 97 Official Support

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Can anyone advise if Microsoft officially support Access
97. Any links would be advantageous. Thanks
 
The support links, and end of support time is listed here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-us;LifeOfficeFam

access97 thus expored jan 16, 2004.

There is nothing stopping you from writing code with ms-access version 2.0
(what 1994??). In fact we still frequently get questions here about that
version. There is noting stopping you from writing software using FoxPro
2.6. That is also a dos based "text" system, and is also about 1992.

Microsoft has the best track record in the industry in this regards. You can
still run all that old software. You can even run most of it in windows2000,
which really does not even has dos anymore.

Apple, and good many of the other vendors out there have forced numerous
upgrades upon their users. For example, all of the old applications for the
old Apple Macintosh (such as Mac-paint etc). DO NOT work on the new
platforms. In other words, just about all of the 1980' applications (and
early 90's code) for the Apple Mac do not work anymore. They WERE FORCED to
upgrade. ALL OF MY windows code from the early 1980's still runs fine on the
newest windows box. Microsoft does not have a policy of "breaking", or not
allowing the old code to run. They have the best track record in the
industry by far in this regard.

So, really, I don't see any problem here. Nothing is stopping you from using
the 1992 version of dos based Reflex is there? (I have some clients still
running that)

If you want, you can jump over to Dan Bricklins site, and download the
ORIGINAL spread sheet for the ibm pc. It still works today! Do any of you
remember VisiCalc? It is only a 27k download for a whole spread sheet!.
Simply amazing. By the way, this spreadsheet is from the original 1981
VisiCalc disk, and it still runs on Windows today! (heck, the average GIF on
a web site is larger!).

Just how old of code are trying to run here? We can't go back before 1981,
since the Pc did not exist. Hence, I can't help you with code before that.
On the other hand, there are good number of Atari, and Apple II sites with
great emulators that let you that lots of code from the 1970's.

Here is the link:
http://www.bricklin.com/visicalc.htm

But, if you want to run access 1.0, or Visual Basic 3.0...you can...
 
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