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In an effort to eliminate MS Access from the current software landscape, the IT department where I work continues to espouse the fact that Microsoft has announced the End of Life for Access, not just a particular version but rather eliminating Access altogether. Is there any truth to this?
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None whatsoever. This rumor has been going around for decades and has never been true. In fact, the Access development team has announced a new dedication to improving the desktop (see my blog). Ask your IT department to provide any statement from Microsoft to support their contention. Feel free to show them this response.
IT departments generally hate MS Access because users start creating their own reports and databases. There is some justification to this in that some users doing this shouldn't be and they create bad reports. Then IT departments are challenged from higher-ups to show the company's report is right and the user's is wrong.
But any too misused can do the same. Access can just do it a million records at a time.
No.
Such statements never get old and have been going on for 20+ years and Access is still going strong.
The Access Dev Team is still working on Access, adding new features as we speak.
Ask whomever made such a statement to provide a reference to a specific Microsoft webpage, new release, ... they will not be able to do so. It's a shame that such people cannot simply state "I don't like Access", "I don't understand Access" ,... instead of hiding behind such unfounded statements.
Good luck to you, because if this is the level of support you are getting from your IT dept. you have an uphill battle ahead of you!
How come Access 2016 is not part of the Office 365 Business Plans? The standalone version apparently will not work with those plans. Perhaps Microsoft don't want us to use it?
You have to get Pro Plus or E3 or E5 in order to get Access.