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Microsoft Access System being discontinued?
Hello, I am looking for a way to create a database and all of my research is leading me to wanting to build a Microsoft Access based database. It seems as though this program would fulfill all my ne...
Hello,
I'm not sure about this rumor but if this will be discontinued, lots of my work will be affected. Thank you for bringing this up. If you have found an official press release, please share it with me. Thank you.
I'm not sure about this rumor but if this will be discontinued, lots of my work will be affected. Thank you for bringing this up. If you have found an official press release, please share it with me. Thank you.
pia92 Access is NOT going away and there is an ongoing development roadmap to strengthen its connection to the could ecosystem like connectors for Dataverse and Graph.
Access still plays a purpose in Microsoft's "Citizen Developer" universe but it isn't as likely to get the public attention from MS that Power Apps and the rest of the Power Platform get.
- Please stop spreading this rumor. It is false and all too often the result of ill intentions on the part of the originators and spreaders of the rumor. Don't be one of them.
- I'm not spreading this rumor. It just that I got an email and posted on my page. That is why I'm asking because I'm not aware of this.
- You are, in fact, spreading the rumor by posting here asking if it is valid.
Had you bothered to read the full lengthy discussion in this thread, you'd have seen quite quickly, that it is not true. Yet, you chose to prolong the discussion by appending one more "is it true" question as if you'd seen nothing. That's spreading the rumor. Let it stop now, please.
- To repeat previous comments.
There is no official press release announcing the demise of Access because it is not going to be discontinued for many years to come. See above comments from various responders as to why it remains integral to Office.
Whilst new developments in Access are limited and progress remains disappointingly slow, there is a plan for future development work that has been shared with Access MVPs. You can also find a thread on this forum by Michael Aldridge listing recent actions taken to fix bugs as they arise. This work is also ongoing
