Access 12 Blog's Latest Post

[David W. Fenton]

I just read the latest post on the Access 12 Blog:

Tracking Application Overview
http://blogs.msdn.com/access/archive...06/525888.aspx

and just have to say:

<Jon Stewart>
Whuh?????
</Jon Stewart>

I have no idea what any of it is talking about.

Does anyone have experience with with SharePoint services to
determine if all the non-Access jargon is coming from SharePoint?

So far as I can see, this has *nothing* to do with the Access that I
have come to know and love.

This disturbs me a great deal, since it suggests to me that Access
is being, once again, altered according to a larger Microsoft agenda
to promote some program/technology outside of Access itself, in this
case, SharePoint Services. It looks to me as though MS has failed to
sell anybody on the utility of SharePoint Services (my clients have
no need for it, and many of them don't have a server to run it on in
the first place), so they are going to *force* it on us by
integrating into Access so it *requires* SharePoint Services (sort
of the way Outlook is really of significant use (e.g., scheduling)
only if you commit to running Exchange Server).

I am dismayed.

Am I overreacting?

--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/

[pamelafluente]

Yeah me too! I think you are not.

Not yet. But waite a moment...

Try this:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...t/default.mspx
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/sharepoint/
http://www.sharepointtips.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/

and in the spare time :

http://www.spsfaq.com/installation.asp
http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/2003/04/1240.html
http://www.cashncarrion.co.uk/products/13316/534/