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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...
- 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.
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.
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.
My apology for the confusion. I was waxing nostalgic about the problem (documents with 8.3 names) and the solution I devised using Access (generating unique filenames and a searchable index) back in the Win 3.1 days.
The matrix does mention 1.0 and 1.1 and although they were not official Office apps, they were distributed with Office and that is probably how many people were introduced to the single-file database concept.
As for SharePoint... I am referring to Access Web Services for SharePoint Online (Office 365 service). On premise would be a nightmare for my clients who work mostly with virtual teams, external guest users, etc.