[AccessD] MS Access 2010 or MS Access 2013 ??

[Charlotte Foust]

I'm going to buck the trend here.  I like 2013 and recommend it over 2010,
but I work in both.  Yes, I've seen some corruption issues in 2013, but not
lately.  An app migrated from 97 to 2003 needs to be updated and 2010 vs
2013 doesn't really matter.  I just converted a 2003 to 2010 for a client,
and I had to do some work to make sure it would run in Win 7 and beyond.



Charlotte Foust
(916) 206-4336

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Borge Hansen <pcs.accessd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have not been frequenting the forum for a while...
> Good to see all the familiar names still here...
>
> I did a quick search here on the forum about Access 2010 vs 2013, nothing
> really came up
>
> Question: Office 2013 or 2010?
>
> The question is forced upon us with the sunsetting of MS Server 2003 and
> Office 2003
>
> I have a client with a MS Access 2003 app that have been ticking over since
> year 2000 (yes, it was A97 then).
> Last five years running on a MS 2003 Server in the cloud - RDP access.
> Now they are forced to upgrade their Server with their Cloud Services
> provider:
> MS 2012 R2 Domain Controller and file server
> MS 2012 R2 with IIS and SQL Server  (2012 Express to begin with)
> MS 2012 R2 for remote desktops - six in all with Office 2010 32 bit!!
> About US$10,000 for setting up
> About US$1,000 per month for running this
>
> I've recommended Office 2010 32 bit for their Word, Excel and Outlook
> (Exchange server hosted elsewhere) and of course the MS Access app that we
> have developed and are maintaining for them.
>
> I have checked on our local virtual Windows 7 box that the current MS2003
> Access app runs ok on MS Access 2010...  SQL Db backend and mdb for temp
> files in the frontend. Home spun security.
> I am so familiar with MSAccess 2003 - the ribbon is still something I have
> to figure out how to incorporate into the UI if we go down that road. For
> now we will stick with the old 2003 menu bespoke for the application.
>
> What do you recommend 2010 or 2013 ??
>
> /borge
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