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From: Philip Herlihy <PhillipHerlihy@SlashDevNull.invalid>
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Subject: Re: MS Access (was: Re: Linux at scale)
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 13:38:23 +0100
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In article <lhas1sFire7U2@mid.individual.net>, vallor wrote...
> 
> On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 22:30:47 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <v8ovem$8t63$7@dont-email.me>:
> 
> > On 4 Aug 2024 17:54:40 GMT, vallor wrote:
> > 
> >> When I think of the average computer user, I think of my folks. (Dad
> >> just turned 84.)  I'd love to get them on Linux, but they have a good
> >> chunk of their personal organizing locked up in MS Access databases.
> > 
> > How about converting to SQLite and using LibreOffice Base as a frontend?
> > That gets you away from the limitations of Microsoft Access.
> 
> That would mean throwing away umpteen databases and reports, developed
> over the span of decades.  I don't think that's practicable.
> 
> As I said, I'd like to try Access on Linux using WINE or proton.
> 
> Went to buy a copy at Amazon, and MS Access 2010 seems to be
> the latest version.  That can't be the latest version,
> can it?  Is Microsoft abandoning Access?

It seems very unlikely that MS would abandon Access - there are just too many 
databases out there.  I use Access as part of Microsoft 365.
Version: Microsoft® Access® for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2406 Build 
16.0.17726.20078) 32-bit 

There may be a perpetual license version available directly from Microsoft.

-- 

Phil, London