[AccessD] Converting Customers to VB.Net

Dan,

 >I think the reason we get upset with them is that they are the only choice we have, so we believe 
that we are entitled to have a say

And I think the reason we are upset is that they CLAIM to be listening and then they polish their 
toolbars.

Just come out and tell the developer community "We don't give a rat's ass about what you think is 
important and we aren't going to support you.  MOVE TO .NET" and I think the response to them would 
be entirely different.

Nobody likes to be jerked around year after year, promises made and broken year after year.

I think the developer community is jaded, we know that WE are of zero importance to Microsoft (in 
the Access / Office universe).  And yet they (and their MVPs) consistently CLAIM otherwise.

There are a whole ton of people on this list who do some pretty powerful development work in Access 
and yet to my knowledge nobody here has ever been asked for an opinion (other than perhaps a certain 
MVP? who loooooooves the new product...) , nor have our opinions ever made one iota of positive 
difference in the product.

Too busy polishing the friggin toolbars AFAICT.

When I develop an application for my client, THEY drive what I do for them.  WE don't drive what 
Microsoft does for Access, ergo WE are not the client.  Now if they would just quit TELLING us we 
are the (or even A) client...  We clearly are not.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Dan Waters wrote:
> Hi Shamil - 
> 
> I agree with you on MS business model.  I think they've realized that to
> plan for many years ahead to maintain two separate, but not that different
> (VB.Net vs. VBA), programming methodologies isn't in their long-term
> business interest.  Everyone should remember that MS has discontinued
> issuing new licenses for VBA.
> 
> MS is a profit-seeking company, so they will change as needed to get the
> most they can.  I think the reason we get upset with them is that they are
> the only choice we have, so we believe that we are entitled to have a say,
> like we do with the government.  If MS was a smaller company, we'd just say,
> "That's business!"
> 
> Dan