I have been using Access for nearly 30 years, and still find it incredibly useful, both personally and professionally. The thing that has most let it down for all that time is the SQL query editor, which was at best, basic, and at worst, antediluvian. As a database specialist, I prefer to write queries in SQL rather than using the designer, but it was incredibly frustrating in the old editor. I couldn't quite believe it when colours and intellisense suggestions just started appearing in my Access SQL last week! This is a MASSIVE improvement, especially the ability to change font style and size (proportional fonts in a code editor are just wrong!) I may well comment again when I've been using it for a while.