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Luke Chung's avatar
Mar 07, 2018

Microsoft Access Version Comparison Matrix

  Microsoft Access debuted in 1992 and recently celebrated its 25th Anniversary! Over the decades, Microsoft Access evolved with a large number of enhancements, database formats, and discont...
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    LukeChung
    Jun 09, 2018
    Hi Colleen,

    Let's address this piece by piece. Access wasn't part of Office until Access 95. Please see this Wikipedia page for details on the history of Microsoft Office. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Office

    I undrstand the issue of file names in 8.3 format with dBase and Paradox, but what does that have to do with Access? It's reports are inside the Access mdb file and not subject to 8.3 limitations. You can name a report with much more flexibility.

    For "Access Services", do you mean Access Web Services? The latter is deprecated on Office365, but remains supported in on premise SharePoint for the current and next release. Those Apps were never comparable to Windows based versions of Access solutions.

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