[AccessD] VBA going away (Not for 10 more years - at least)

The slashdot article seemed largely a rant against Microsoft, Visual
Studio, Windows, and companies that change things without ASKING ME
FIRST!!

Even if it were all true, I couldn't get very upset by it.  Too many
others already foaming at the mouth!

Charlotte Foust 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Dan Waters
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:37 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] VBA going away (Not for 10 more years - at least)

Per MS's support web site, they have stopped issuing new licenses to
other software companies who wanted to use VBA in their applications.  

The latest app to include VBA is Office 2007.  MS will provide support
for VBA for 10 years after that.  The first 5 is mainstream support, the
next 5 is extended support, and then 'Self-Help' support after that
(reading their existing website pages related to VBA).  MS does not
'guarantee' that VBA will work on one of their OS's after 2017, be I
would guess that it will for quite some time after that.

I don't have the MS web site, but it wasn't hard to find.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Joe Rojas
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:07 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] VBA going away

Saw this list on my Google Sidebar news feed.
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/01/15/197257.shtml


Joe Rojas
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Symmetry Medical TNCO
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