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  • chrisdev3@gmail.com

    Is Microsoft going to exclude MS Access from next office versions

    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

    #2
    Re: Is Microsoft going to exclude MS Access from next office versions

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

    Chris
    Microsoft MVP


    chrisdev3@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

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    • Larry Linson

      #3
      Re: Is Microsoft going to exclude MS Access from next office versions

      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

      <chrisdev3@gmai l.comwrote in message
      news:e7fbf1c3-c1b0-432e-ba8c-499b294ce684@w7 g2000hsa.google groups.com...
      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.

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      • lyle fairfield

        #4
        Re: Is Microsoft going to exclude MS Access from next office versions

        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
        >
        news:e7fbf1c3-c1b0-432e-ba8c-499b294ce684@w7 g2000hsa.google groups.com...
        >
        >
        >
        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.

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        • Paul Brady

          #5
          Re: Is Microsoft going to exclude MS Access from next office versions

          On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:21:04 GMT, "Larry Linson"
          <bouncer@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.

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          • Tony Toews [MVP]

            #6
            Re: Is Microsoft going to exclude MS Access from next office versions

            lyle fairfield <lyle.fairfield @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

              #7
              Re: Is Microsoft going to exclude MS Access from next office versions

              On Aug 1, 10:03 pm, Paul Brady <ptbr...@aol.co 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.

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              • The Frog

                #8
                Re: Is Microsoft going to exclude MS Access from next office versions

                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

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                • Larry Linson

                  #9
                  Re: Is Microsoft going to exclude MS Access from next office versions

                  "The Frog" <Mr.Frog.to.you @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.



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