Microsoft announced yesterday that the next release of the Office suite will occur in 2010. News out of Redmond indicates that this release will place a heavy emphasis on web services. So far, there aren't any specific details available on what this means for Microsoft Access.
Wikipedia has an Access screenshot posted purportedly from an alpha tester that includes a few new items, including a redesigned Microsoft Office button and two new buttons (Web Service and Move Data) on the ribbon's External Data tab.
Microsoft declined my request for an interview on any of the functionality planned for Access 2010, but a spokesperson released the following information about their release schedule: "Office 2010...will enter technical preview in Q3 of 2009 and will RTM in first half of 2010."
What do you want to see in Access 2010? Share your thoughts!
Update (7/15/2009): Microsoft has announced the new and improved features in Access 2010.
Wikipedia has an Access screenshot posted purportedly from an alpha tester that includes a few new items, including a redesigned Microsoft Office button and two new buttons (Web Service and Move Data) on the ribbon's External Data tab.
Microsoft declined my request for an interview on any of the functionality planned for Access 2010, but a spokesperson released the following information about their release schedule: "Office 2010...will enter technical preview in Q3 of 2009 and will RTM in first half of 2010."
What do you want to see in Access 2010? Share your thoughts!
Update (7/15/2009): Microsoft has announced the new and improved features in Access 2010.
would you like some ‘planned obsolescence’ with that ma’am?
Requested feature #1: please add back in the ability to switch back to the Office 2003 “Classic” menus. That’s the one thing I HATE about Access 2007… the ribbon completely changes the way you work with Access, and it tosses 15+ years of experience with the Access interface out the window. I can see having it for new users, but us “old school” developers want our menus back!
Richard Rost
AccessLearningZone.com
Please put back the classic Menu same as we have in Office 2003.
Please put back the zoom in Memo Fields same as we have in Access 2.0.
Please put back the Relations Integrity Checking to be Deferred at the end of the Update Cascade same as Access 2.0.
Please make the DAO driver for VB6.
Please More than 2 GB.
I still can’t understand why we need gui in Office suite. can we just have the old plain familiar DOS screens?
2003 style of displaying objects, cleaner and fewer keystrokes, prefer old style pull down menu, takes up less screen space, floating toolbox
We need the Old Access 2003 Menu creation facility using macro’s.Pls put it back again in Access 2010.After doing 300 projects since the last 20 yrs the new Ribbon concept seems very annoying.Let the Ribbons be there but make sure our old Menu’s are back. Let us have a choice to switch to our favourite interface like how Windows Vista gives us.
Thanks.
+1 for classic menus and >2GB data mdb files.
Removal of classic menus is the only reason our commercial apps have not (and will not) be ported to Access 2007.
MAybe thats why they did it so they could get rid of Access and wouldn’t port the old apps to the new version
I second/third/whatever the return to menus, and would like to add two more things that simply must be fixed with the new version:
1. Bring back the Access 2003 database window, at least as an option. The new design just doesn’t work if you have a lot of objects.
2. Trash the new (2007) graphical sorting and grouping control for reports. The Access 2003 form was simple and elegant, and I could create/change groups to exactly the way I want them in seconds. With the 2007 monstrosity I have to use less/more buttons, and read a freaking paragraph to locate the setting I want to change. It makes me insane. PLEASE remove this time waster!
It would be nice to have more properties available for the ribbon controls – particularly the ribbon itself – e.g. the name of the ribbon in LoadRibbon event.
A GUI for ribbon design.
Change the color scheme when using the runtime.
Bugs: if you import a form from an earlier Access version, the combo boxes behave strangely. The only fix I have found is to go into layout view then use the AutoFormat Wizard tio change to the Access 2007 AutoFormat – very painful.
Bugs: split forms do some odd things – especially in synchronising the two views and if you modify control properties in VBA using the Me object.
The report sorting and grouping interface is confusing and tedious.
Apart from that, no complaints about Access 2007. Just don’t change too much! And make it backward compatible!
Yet another call for 2003 menus. 2007 was an insult to 15 years of common sense workflow. Oh well, there are ways to simulate 2003 in 2007, and perhaps a dev will make the same for 2010, given that so many people are attached to 2003. While they’re at it, bring back XP. Vista sucks.
Anyone seen the system requirements for Windows 7? And you thought the jump from XP to Vista was bad!
There are some videos of what’s new in Access 2010 on the Connect website (open only to technical preview testers).
“Yet another call for 2003 menus. 2007 was an insult to 15 years of common sense workflow.” EXACTLY. All my professional contacts HATE the dynamic ribbons. — Another point: MS should start to develop software which needs less hardware ressources / less power /less energy.
Ok Brian Powell, if Office is ALREADY obsolete, then tell us what program we SHOULD be using? What’s advanced and up to date? Or even AHEAD of it’s time? I always love how people will BASH Windows’ products but NEVER offer a better alternative. For me, the majority of their software works just fine. Obviously a bit a learning curve with any software, but when you get it, it’s all pretty easy….Please exclude Vista from consideration….that’s just not fair
Get over the old menus and learn the ribbon! It’s actually working out great for a project I’m working on. A drag and drop ribbon development tool would be nice though. The database object window is still confusing to me.
Please put back replication service for roam users to synchronise their data
Please make the Relationship for multiple fields relations to work in MATCH SIMPLE mode (This meens don’t require any matching between Fields as soon as one of the Foreign Fields is null). Very easy change to realise if done in Ms side but impossible to work around from our side. MATCH SIMPLE mode is available in powerfull databases (Oracle,…) and was also available in Access 2.0 but lost since Access 97.
Please in Table level constraint replace Table ValidationRule and ValidationText by a list off multiple couples (ValidationRule, ValidationText), in order to provide not confusing Error Messages (ValidationText) mixing the case that happends and other cases that do not happend.
I agree, after 15+ years of Access since ver 1.1 which worked with VB1? Or VB2. If Microsoft Windows is about having multiple windows and comparing them side by side on the screen then why get rid of it with TABS? I often times need to see two tables or two VBA code windows side by side when programming. Can’t do that with TAB’s. I know you can turn off the TABS but something else screws up?
Also the Option’s window had TAB’s which worked well for it but now it’s not TABS anymore it’s a list? So the Program is TABS and the Options are Not? Flip Flop?
Yes Menu’s had been perfected for YEARS? and now you throw it all away? When the visionary who started the company leaves it sometimes goes down hill.
I used to use Access and I have previewed 2010
I am being asked by clients to build web apps – Sharepoint is not a solution for many reasons including cost ($40,000 + for a sharepoint server for internet apps)
I hear great things from a number of my clients about Alpha Five v10 which can work directly for SQL databases and Access databases to build AJAX web apps fast. has anyone used it?
I hope Access 2010 will allow developers to use either the new ribbon interface or the familiar menus and toolbars. Give us the choice, don’t make the choice for us. I don’t want to have to learn another language in order to build a ribbon for my Access programs.
Confabulates 2010!
In access 2003 there is a tool to customize you own shortcut menu bar. this feature could not find in access 2007. Have this feature added in 2010.
I bought but skipped using latest office access because of ‘HORRIBLE’ ribbon. The changes added MORE work time not less.
At least give users choice of using better designed 2003 menus. It took forever just to find the ‘Save as’ Sheeezzze
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Why couldn’t you wait until 2012 before reinventing your wheel into something incomprehensible. That’s when I retire. It will be great when all our systems are unusable and I’m off getting training. Where do you get off changing a good product (2003), Microslop. Prepare to say goodbye to lots of users, from what I’m reading. I’ll be looking into Ruby on Rails.
That’s really tkhining out of the box. Thanks!