My parting gift to you is to share a link that was brought to my attention by Maria Barnes.
Microsoft is now holding ‘Research Panels’ to gather information that will help shape the direction that MS365 will take. This is where. even MVPs are being directed to provide feedback now!
So if you’re interested in joining in and having your say, then check out:
We are seeking to collect a panel of Microsoft 365 developers for a variety of customer studies around the Microsoft 365 developer program and overall development experience...
Do note, you have to complete the signup process which includes signing a virtual waiver. Be sure to read it in full before signing!
This also brings up the valid point about ‘Then what’s the purpose of the Feedback Portal?’. You draw your own conclusions.
I’d like to thank all of you who have followed me on my journey to try and share my knowledge and passion of Microsoft Access. I’ve always tried my best to share as much information as I could in an unbiased manner, a trustworthy ‘tell it as is it’ source of information rather than a Microsoft Yes man as we see a lot of today. I wish you all the best in all your future Access endeavors. Take care.
Going to miss you Daniel. If you ever find yourself in the ****** area, look me up.
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Hey Daniel, thanks for all your advice and instruction over the years.
Best wishes on your future endeavors.
-Ken
Un gros merci pour tout ce que tu as fait. C’est désolant de penser qu’on ne verra plus de nouvelles articles. À la prochaine.
“Thank you so much for everything you’ve done. It’s sad to think that we won’t see any more new articles. See you.” — translation provided by Admin (via Google translate)
Sad to see you go away. Even if it was, probably, a too much silent way of doing it, It was always a great pleasure to follow your articles and videos.
Wish you all the best in your life and may your dreams and goals be achived.
If you ever come at the north of Portugal, give me a buzz… if will be a please to share some bières avec toi (Separate glasses 😀 )
Thank you Rockas.
I still haven’t decided if I will continue to output any Access videos. So, I may. I do have plans for a series about developing proper Web Applications, probably even migrating Access data.
Take care.
Thanks for all your efforts to make Access more useful/useable for people like me. If you are thinking of it, I’ll put in my vote for some videos on migrating MS Access backends across to the web, especially to things like MySQL!
Warm regards,
Chris
Wow, this is a really sad to learn about. And I wonder if it’s an omen of sorts regarding MS Access, VBA, etc. Really sorry to hear you’re leaving Daniel. While others have known you and your work for some time, I’ve only recently discovered you so it’s sad that you’re leaving. I do hope you continue with Access videos. As long as Access is around we all need outstanding practitioners willing to share their expertise with us less able folk. But what ever you do, I wish you the best of luck!
I originally had no intention of stopping my blog, but after recently being publicly blasted, for my blog posts, by a fellow MVP in our MVP discussion group, someone who I thought was a friend, I just don’t see the point of fighting anymore. Caught me off-guard and hurt. I put in a lot of time and energies to build my content! They said my post https://www.devhut.net/new-access-product-manager/ echoed their statements on the video and I had plagiarized their work. So, because, after viewing the same video as them, I had a similar overall opinions, I plagiarized?! So no one can apparently agree with their thoughts. It’s amazing the world we now live in. Sad actually.
My stopping the blog may have been an over-reaction and I may revisit that decision. It was simply what I was feeling at the time. As another MVP told me, he doesn’t represent everyone (in this context, other MVPs) and he shouldn’t be allowed to stop you from doing what you enjoy doing.
Omen. Hmmmmm…. I don’t know anymore. There was a point in time when we saw no advancement on the Access front (around 2007 for almost 10 years!), and I truly thought Access was doomed. Recently, however, we’ve finally seen actual work, new features, Dev Team participation in meetings, answering questions. So I don’t think it is dead quite yet. Does it remain the right choice for new projects? That’s the real question and needs to be answered by reviewing the needs of every project. With more and more people wanting to run solution on any device, from anywhere, … Access looses its appeal (yes, there are workarounds), but there still is a tremendous amount of cases where Access remains the perfect solution!
VBA, that’s a different question. Seeing VBScript officially announced as being retired and the ‘New Outlook’ not supporting VBA does get me worried. I get the feeling that we might be seeing the beginning of changes to come. It won’t be an overnight thing, but over time I get the feeling we will see other applications do like Outlook, move to a unified code base (web based) and thus VBA would be replaced by JS (I’m assuming is the plan). As I always say, “but what do I know!”. It’s not like Microsoft ever share any information, everyone is in the dark.
Gads it will be a real loss if you continue to step away from posting here. One MVP dinging you like that, yeah that’s no fun, but it’s been a while now and I’m sure you’ll make the decision based on other less transient factors. Like, #1 is probably: is Access still interesting and useful?
In any case lots of us owe you.
All the best!
Keeping an eye on newcomers, stay lucid how Access is good/future proof and its weakness.. thanks for this good balanced summary of the situation Daniel !