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Another Day, Another Deleted Feedback Portal Suggestion!

Microsoft Feedback

A little over a year ago I wrote an article regarding retrieving a database object’s created and modified date/times:

Microsoft Access - Object - Created and Modified Dates
Microsoft Access - Get Object Created Or Modified Date/Time
Getting the Creation Date/Time So have you ever tried to retrieve the Created Date/Time. Pretty easy right as there are a couple ways to attack this! You can simply query the MSysObjects table: Or perhaps use DAO Containers and Documents:   Getting the Last Modified Date/Time But what about the Modified Date/Time? So you would think that we could simply modify the above query of the MSysObjects table to: Or the DAO Containers and Documents to: But those are not reliable and don’t always work properly! (especially for Forms and Reports). Instead, they seem to return the Created Date/Time again.…

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In it, I detailed that the Last Modified properties was in fact unreliable and hence there was a bug.

So, at the end of the article, I included a link to a Feedback Portal suggestion I created about the issue in the hopes Microsoft would decided to fix this issue for us all.

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Cost of Running Windows 10 Past October 2025 Announced

If you weren’t already aware, Microsoft Windows 10 EOF (End of life) is October 14th, 2025.  That means at that point in time, Microsoft will cease to release security updates…. well for free at least! They will become only available to those that pay for Extended Support.

Microsoft has recently announced the pricing of getting extended support and it will add up quickly.  You can read all the details in the following article:

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How to Expand All the Microsoft Roadmap Items

Roadmap with markers

If you’ve ever seen any of my posts about the Microsoft Roadmaps, I typically provided a screenshot showing all the items expanded. For instance, in my post:

Roadmap with markers
Microsoft Access Roadmap Update
Did you notice that the Microsoft Access Roadmap was updated today?  If you haven’t seen the road use the following link:   So what has changed and where do we stand today?!

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Roadmap with markers
Microsoft Access Roadmap Updated, Again
In my previous post a week or two ago I highlighted the evolution of the Microsoft Access Roadmap and talked about some oddities with the current roadmap with ETA contradicting written statements leading to confusion… (read the article for all the details). Well, I recently revisited the roadmap and it changed again! So this is the current roadmap as of June 6th, 2022 (I think it was actually implemented around June 2nd, 2022 but could be mistaken).

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Bye Bye UserVoice!

Frog Leaving

I reported it for several years now that UserVoice was a complete waste of time!!!

Let me be more specific, the general idea was a great one, but rather it was the implementation, administration and follow through with the core principle of such a site that made the it a complete waste.

You can check out my findings by looking over:

Microsoft’s UserVoice Announcement

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Microsoft PowerApps, Get Ready To Open Your Wallet

Fellow MVP Alum Anders Ebro shared with the MVP group an article We need citizen devs, cries Microsoft – but pricey new licensing plans for PowerApps might put paid to that which elaborates on the fact that PowerApps will soon begin to cost developers. It would seem that Microsoft plans to monetize PowerApps above and beyond your Office365 subscription.

People are also complaining about how complex the pricing plans (different routes, differnt plans, …) are to understand and figure out actual costs vs. needs.

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