[AccessD] Office 365 vs. Office Desktop

[Mark Simms]

My client decided to go with a $20 per month per seat licensing option by
Microsoft that permits BOTH Office 365 and Office 2016 Desktop
licenses.....with multiple installs allowed for each user (home, office,
laptop, etc).
I was surprised to see how flexible AND aggressive the Office licensing fee
has become !!!
(Of course, it changes practically EVERY YEAR)

So for $2,400 per year for 10 users, that is a pretty good deal, no ? This
is relative to the $170,000 per year fees for a comparable cloud-based
service.

My job in the upgrade is to insure that all DLL library calls are made to be
64 bit compatible.
And there are a TON of them. One of the modules supports a complex,
custom-made FTP function by which the client can download their client's
account information daily.
I am likely to build this out by checking the WIN64 compiler variable so
that it is backwards compatible with the 32bit calls. VBA7=True is now a
"given".

In addition, there are complex Ribbon libraries which must be tested in the
new release.
That scares me the most.....as I discovered the Callbacks from the Ribbon
were buggy upon initialization.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
> Of Susan Harkins
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 5:58 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Help with an Access web app -- finding records
> without matching related records
>
> I still don't understand -- but don't worry about it. :) Thanks!
>
> Susan H.
>
>
> 1) Office 365 does not support VBA.
> 2) Office 2016 will only install if all previous versions of Office are
> uninstalled.
> 3) Office 365 Excel for the 2016 edition is now programmable in
> Javascript;
> previous versions were not.
> 4) I believe MS Access 2010 run-time can be present when Office 2016 is
> installed...not completely sure though.
>