Is Microsoft going to exclude MS Access from next office versions

[chrisdev3]

Hi,

Has anybody heard whether Microsoft is going to exclude MS Access from
next office versions installations ? I heard some rumors and wanted
to confirm.

Thanks a lot.

[Chris O'C via AccessMonster.com]

The rumors are false. Microsoft is hard at work on the next version of
office, including Access.

Chris
Microsoft MVP
ch*******@gmail .com wrote:

>Hi,

Has anybody heard whether Microsoft is going to exclude MS Access from
next office versions installations ? I heard some rumors and wanted
to confirm.

Thanks a lot.

--
Message posted via http://www.accessmonster.com

[Larry Linson]

The rumors weren't true in 1993, when people "heard there wasn't going to be
another release of Access" before Access 1.1 came out, they haven't been
true since, and they aren't true now.

In some cases, they are wishful thinking on the part of people who are
losing business (because they use more complex, less efficient, and more
expensive development tools) to Access which is a simple, straightforward ,
efficient, and inexpensive development tool for a very large class of
individual, workgroup, and client-server applications. They can't compete
with it, so they plant rumors in hopes somebody will believe, and hope that
it'll just go away.

But, it just keeps on keeping on, every new version of Office.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP

<ch*******@gmai l.comwrote in message
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Hi,

Has anybody heard whether Microsoft is going to exclude MS Access from
next office versions installations ? I heard some rumors and wanted
to confirm.

Thanks a lot.

[lyle fairfield]

But I think it's pretty well common knowledge that the old Access
"key" icon will be retired in favour of a likeness of Marcia Cross.

On Aug 1, 3:21*pm, "Larry Linson" <boun...@localh ost.notwrote:

The rumors weren't true in 1993, when people "heard there wasn't going tobe
another release of Access" before Access 1.1 came out, they haven't been
true since, and they aren't true now.

In some cases, they are wishful thinking on the part of people who are
losing business (because they use more complex, less efficient, and more
expensive development tools) to Access which is a simple, straightforward ,
efficient, and inexpensive development tool for a very large class of
individual, workgroup, and client-server applications. *They can't compete
with it, so they plant rumors in hopes somebody will believe, and hope that
it'll just go away.

But, it just keeps on keeping on, every new version of Office.

*Larry Linson
*Microsoft Office Access MVP

<chrisd...@gmai l.comwrote in message

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Hi,

Has anybody heard whether Microsoft is going to exclude MS Access from
next office versions installations ? I *heard some rumors and wanted
to confirm.

Thanks a lot.

[Paul Brady]

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:21:04 GMT, "Larry Linson"
<bo*****@localh ost.notwrote:

>They can't compete
with it, so they plant rumors in hopes somebody will believe, and hope that
it'll just go away.

Gee -- perhaps they'll include Fortran with the next office.

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

lyle fairfield <ly************ @gmail.comwrote :

>But I think it's pretty well common knowledge that the old Access
"key" icon will be retired in favour of a likeness of Marcia Cross.

I had no idea who she was. However, as I suspected, you do have good taste in red
heads.

Tony
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[rkc]

On Aug 1, 10:03 pm, Paul Brady <[e-mail] mwrote:

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:21:04 GMT, "Larry Linson"

<boun...@localh ost.notwrote:

They can't compete
with it, so they plant rumors in hopes somebody will believe, and hope that
it'll just go away.

Gee -- perhaps they'll include Fortran with the next office.

I'm pretty sure COBOL is being strongly considered.
It's better suited for business and financial applications.

[The Frog]

I heard that punchcards were the new way to go. Fit your application
in a filing cabinet to really show the volume of work you do :-)

The Frog

[Larry Linson]

"The Frog" <Mr************ @googlemail.com wrote

I heard that punchcards were the new way to go.
Fit your application in a filing cabinet to really
show the volume of work you do :-)

When I went to programming school long ago (1959) in a galaxy not too far
away (Santa Monica, CA), my diploma read:

Larry Linson
has completed the
A/N FSQ-7 Programming Course

followed by the image of an 80-column card, uninterpreted.

Well, we were supposed to know the code from memory, and some of us did...
when we read the "punches" on the image, it said: AND KNOWS THE HOLLERITH
CODE, IF NOTHING ELSE.

I think, somewhere, I still have it... with a little blue ink that one of my
children added.