Bill Gates talks about Access

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http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2008/02/12/the-bill-gates-interview.aspx

Access, of course, has been phenomenally successful, but you think of it as just client forms and client data. Now [with Access] 2007, they did a great job where you could replicate from SharePoint down to Access lists back and forth, but that still didn't let you run your logic up on the server. So the next step is to take that base of Access users and literally let them write things that connect directly up to SharePoint and so it's server-based. So it's a logical step for Access. There's a lot of smart people working on that, so in no sense are we leaving the Access people behind. The same way we moved Excel up to the server, now we're moving Access up there as well.

Sorry—I won’t be able to comment more about our plans but it is always fun to have Bill talk about your work.