[AccessD] Tony's comments

Hi John:

Isn't that why Microsoft made Excel?...for power-users?

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W Colby
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 5:51 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Tony's comments

LOL, and yet... what power user understands normalization?  VBA?  Object
models?  ADO vs DAO? etc ad 
nasium.

John W. Colby?

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 2/21/2013 7:42 AM, Jim Dettman wrote:
>    You need to be fair here; Microsoft has never said Access is a
developers
> tool nor marketed it as such.
>
> Jim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of David McAfee
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 06:26 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Tony's comments
>
> But Access was too good of a tool. MS has been wanting to kill it for
years.
> Actually more like dumb it down, make it a power user tool rather than a
> developer tool.
>
> MS would rather have developers using Visual Studio.
>
> D
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:16 PM, James Button
> <jamesbutton at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:
>
> <<snip>>
>

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