Just another puny bellyache.

After another round of research into slow multi-user access with access 97, access 2000 and access 2003 in the windows 7 network environment I just caved and had to voice my opinion of what Microsoft did. I was reading their http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172733 concerning the matter and just answered the interrogatory at the end. It's not eloquent nor it is blazing with the hard feelings that I really feel. I just feel that  they chose to support immediate profits rather than old-school developer support. I'm sure that they made the right financial decision for them. I just wished my future wasn't so tied to the cast-off debacle they left me drowning in.

My comment to Microsoft at the end of the solicitation "what can we do to improve...":
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I'm very disappointed in the Microsoft level of commitment to its developers.

I work at a company that has put in 12 years of development on an initially vb5.0 then vb6.0 product using Access 97 via jet 3.5. Using the fantastic RAD capabilities of VB5.0 The application came to life and easily migrated to VB6.0 when the time came due to superior backwards compatibility.

The problem came when there was no longer a way to get it to vb.net 2003 since the backwards compatibility enjoyed up until VB6.0 was traded for CLR compliance.

Now Access 97 no longer functions multiuser through win7, XP is nearly impossible to find and we have no further marketed operating systems that support our application. I understand that ACE 2007, & 2010 have been updated to work with win7 but JET 3.5 and 4.0 have not and will not.

I feel that you (Microsoft, it's products and policies collectively) have left us out in the cold. I hope other developers will learn something based on how you treated all of us in this same boat as they select platforms/languages on/for which to develop their future applications.

wesshawnospam@smartsbroadcastnospam.com
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