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Changes to Our Public Roadmap and How We Communicate Access Feature Priorities

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Michael_Aldridge
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May 31, 2022
Today we are announcing a new approach to how we will communicate our new feature development priorities vs the Microsoft Public Roadmap.   Beginning this month the Access team are transitioning ...
Updated May 31, 2022
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isladogs
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Jun 05, 2022

I agree with the previous responses.

 

Whilst it has been very frustrating watching roadmap dates slipping & being missed repeatedly, it is still far better than the new approach which gives a strong indication that development work is non-existent ... indeed it will encourage the endless rumours that Access is no longer being developed & will be killed off by MS.

 

I urge you to reconsider this decision & fall back in line with the previous roadmap approach still in use by other Office apps such as Word / Excel.

 

I also ask that you update both the Whats New section in Access Help and the What's new in Access for Microsoft 365 link available by clicking Office Updates....View Updates 

The last entry in that article is almost 2 years out of date and states: There is nothing new in Version 2009 (Build 13231.20200), the September release. 

 

Whilst the rate of development work is frustratingly slow (with little to show apart from Dataverse ... and the monthly bugs!), there have been changes/improvements & your team should be publicising these