Microsoft Long Term Stratergy Concerning MS Access

[Guest]

Could you point me to somewhere on the MS websites that detail long term
stratergy with regard to support for office products. Perticularly MS ACCESS
and VBA in MS Access. Trying to do a risk assesment with regards to some
applications built in Access, and a cost benefit analysis of converting said
applications to VB.NET and I would like to factor in MS's long term
stratergies into the equasions.

Kind Regards
Steve (Kiwi)

 

[Paul Overway]

I suspect that anyone in the know regarding the subject would be under an
NDA. Nevertheless, all indications point to there being an Access 12
(current version 11/2003). I suspect VBA will continue to be supported in
the next version. The current version will be supported until 2013 and any
future version should be supported beyond that date.

Support lifecycles may be reviewed here:

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeofficefam

 

[Rick Brandt]

People who worry about this always seem to me to be concerned with "getting
a head start" on the issue. If MS ever does anything to cut my Access feet
out from under me then I will do something different *when that happens*.
Changing now or in the near future due to concerns about what *might* happen
at some unknown point in the future just seems like a big waste of time to
me.

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

There is only one thing that can safely be said about Microsoft's long-term
strategy concerning any of their products - that it is flexible.

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

Indeed. There is no guarantee that any alternative that we might switch to
today is going to be around any longer than Access.