I guess it’s true what they say, miracles do happen!
Microsoft has finally, after YEARS of MVPs begging them, started to promote some of the improvement they make to product so people actually can see that the product is being actively developed and isn’t on life support!
Why am I mentioning this? Well, for years now, we have seen little public official posts regarding Access development. The Access Roadmap is simply not maintained and goes months or years with no updates, the Access blog only seems to get posts about bug fixes and very few improvements or new features ever get a post made by Microsoft leading many to believe the product has been on life support for many years now. Several MVPs have done our best to make posts regarding new aspects, but of course this does not hold the same weight as an official Microsoft post and we scrape together the information we can, but can make omissions and mistakes as we don’t always have all the information.
What this means is we finally have an updated and official resource we can point fellow developers and most importantly clients which clearly highlights that Microsoft Access is alive and still evolving, in active development. So no more hearsay, no more take our word for it, we get the information straight from the horses mouth.
I’m expecting, okay let’s be realistic – praying, to see more resources promoting what they release in the future (now that we’ve seen this occur), but in less than 24hrs they updated their “What’s new in Access for Microsoft 365” page to include many of the recently added features and/or product improvements that had not visibility up until now.
