What is future for MS Access?

[Guest]

What is the future for MS Access? Will it be replaced with another
development tool and bundled with MS Office? I have heard rumors of it be
discontinued?

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

What is the future for MS Access? Will it be replaced with another
development tool and bundled with MS Office? I have heard rumors of
it be discontinued?

The rumors are false. MS have devoted major resources to the next
version of Access, and there are lots of changes in store. Access is
already bundled with Office, in the Professional edition.

 

[Tony Toews]

What is the future for MS Access? Will it be replaced with another
development tool and bundled with MS Office? I have heard rumors of it be
discontinued?

We've been hearing such rumours for years. This is absolutely
wrong. There are more folks at Microsoft working on the upcoming
version of Access then they've had for any previous version.

See A discussion of what's new in Access 12
http://blogs.msdn.com/access/ for some discussion on a few
enhancements.

Tony
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[Larry Linson]

We've been hearing such rumours for years.

Only since Version 1.0. <CHUCKLE> I suspected back then that it was
supporters of some competing database products who were planting those
rumors. That could still be a possibility.

This is absolutely wrong.

(As the rumors have been wrong, ever since those first ones.)

The first rumors labeled Access as "the database that wouldn't make the
grade." Now it is, by far, the largest selling database product ever, and
Microsoft would have to be awfully dumb (which they definitely are not) to
drop the worlds best-selling database software!

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP