Access is one of those programs that was a game changer in its day. Desktop databases became popular in the 80’s for orgs that either couldn’t afford or didn’t need a mainframe.
All the other competing desktop database systems were slow to transition from MS-DOS to Windows and Access offered quite a few features that the others didn’t have. Microsoft included Access with Office 95 and every office version thereafter. That pretty much wiped out the rest of the competition.
Access has just outlived it’s usefulness. Better solutions exist now. Microsoft seems aware of that since they’ve done basically nothing to it since 2016. They’re probably just keeping it around for the enterprise customers who are too stubborn to migrate off it yet.
Access is one of those programs that was a game changer in its day. Desktop databases became popular in the 80’s for orgs that either couldn’t afford or didn’t need a mainframe.
All the other competing desktop database systems were slow to transition from MS-DOS to Windows and Access offered quite a few features that the others didn’t have. Microsoft included Access with Office 95 and every office version thereafter. That pretty much wiped out the rest of the competition.
Access has just outlived it’s usefulness. Better solutions exist now. Microsoft seems aware of that since they’ve done basically nothing to it since 2016. They’re probably just keeping it around for the enterprise customers who are too stubborn to migrate off it yet.