What’s changed or removed in Access 2013

Changes in Office 2013:

• ADP fully removed - ok, I tried to use it several times, no luck. MDB with linked tables is much better approach
• Access data collection - the idea was good, but never used it. Now its much easier to made data collection on SharePoint server or ASP.NET application.
• Access 2003 Menus and toolbar - I would like to have them available…
• Replication, source control - did not use it for a long time
• Upsizing wizard - we can use one this older version, not a big deal

 

BTW, few days ago it was Access 20th Anniversary! 20 years and still in a good shape!

Access 1.0 Oct. 28, 1992

No Access 15 for ARM

Steven Sinofsky in his recent article Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture mentioned, that Access will not be ported to ARM architecture and touch experience. What is not much surprising, knowing how much Access hungry for processor power :)