[AccessD] Office 365 vs. Office Desktop

[Darryl Collins]

Yes, In Oz you can get the Home / Small bus version which has the full office suite (for desktop and online) including Outlook and Access for around $120 a year for 5 installs.  Not bad.



-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
Sent: 25 May, 2016 9:19 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office 365 vs. Office Desktop

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.
>


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