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>>>>Access? What a joke. You could pull a guy off a bus and he could do Access.
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>>>Access had some merit. The report writer was pretty good. Actually, the SSRS designer was derived from Access.
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>>>One of the biggest issues with Access was how badly people abused it.
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>>Microsoft has mainly itself to blame for that. They marketed Access as a tool power users could use to build real applications. What we saw is that there is a big difference between professional developers and power users. Power users may be better than us at identifying necessary features but when it comes to coding those features, forget it.
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>Wasn't dBASE (back in the CP/M and DOS days) originally touted as a "power user" tool?

On CP/M days there where power users and developers.

Keyboard-Chair-Interface was introduced way later.