Anyone who follows my blog – or has kept an eye on Microsoft’s Fixes or workarounds for recent issues in Access page—won’t be surprised by this update. Microsoft quietly revised that page with the following notice:

So, it only took three years for them to officially tell us… but hey, better late than never, right?

Still, I can’t help but see this as a huge missed opportunity. For years, many of us had been asking Microsoft to enhance that page with real features that would make it genuinely useful. Instead, they just abandoned the idea. Blog posts simply aren’t the same. They get buried among unrelated topics, they’re much harder to search, and the platform itself lacks the functionality we needed (and repeatedly requested). I doubt Microsoft will add those features now.

And let’s be honest: even if the “fixes” now live on the blog (for the past 3 years), they haven’t been actually publishing most of the Access bugs and workarounds there either. Not even close! The gaps are obvious.

So practically speaking, nothing has changed. The only difference is that now the old page is officially dead, and we can stop wasting time checking it, hoping the Dev Team had finally decided to use it properly.