ACCESS FOREVER

Microsoft is constantly pushing the switch to New Outlook, that deprives VBA developers of Outlook automation. What's the current status?

Access 2024 was released on 1st October with new features for the perpetual version, a new support guarantee and reduced purchase options.

The annual (re)nomination round of Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) happened in early July. It took us a few days to clarify...

Microsoft has published which applications will be part of the next perpetual Office and will again receive five years of guaranteed...

If an update for Microsoft 365 contains a relevant bug, we will inform you on AFo about workarounds and the planned fix date. But...

The regular updates of Microsoft 365 contain new features and other intended changes, but sometimes they also come with problems and...

PARTY! Exactly 1 year ago, after some preparatory work, I published the first articles here. The aim was to improve the information about...

Many of you are aware of the datatype DateTimeExtended that was added to Microsoft Access a couple of years ago so that we could record...

In a recent article , I described that Microsoft is working on a New Outlook to replace all current Outlook variants, including the...

Microsoft is currently working on the so-called New Outlook that is no longer based on COM. This means that the traditional object...

The market situation of Access developers is primarily characterized by a lack of data. I don't know of any useful figures or statistic....

In July the big (re)nomination round for Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) takes place. On this occasion, I am posting here a...

On April 11, 2023, the support for Office 2013 and thus Access 2013 has expired . This means that Microsoft will no longer provide...

A frequent question is whether this or that Microsoft 365 plan/subscription includes Access. Microsoft marketing likes to hide Access in...

I promise not to resell every one of my talks here, but this one was different, i.e. programmatic and pretty comprehensive if you're...

Since the late 90's you can read or hear from someone or other that "Access is dead" because Microsoft will certainly...

As an Access developer, you may wonder whether you are mainstream or exotic with the versions you use. At my German Access developer...