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# Craig Alexander Morrison said on September 1, 2008 4:29 AM:

With each release of Office and Windows you hobble the performance by adding useless frivolities that cannot be suppressed (and a plethora of bugs).

The frivolities are so you can have a list of new "features" to market the "upgrade" the bugs are because they have not been fully ironed out before you sell the upgrade.

That is part of why people are sticking with earlier versions of your software. It is why I have waited for at least 12 months after release of everything you have produced since 1995 before using it in a production environment.

Indeed Access 97 is still in use with some of our clients because nothing you have done in the last 12 years has made this version redundant. We still get the occasional (development) crash in Access 2003 but in 12 years I am hard pressed to remember when we had a problem with Access 97.

And as to performance Access 97 just flies on Windows 2000 and XP/2003.

To improve performance allow users to strip out things that they consider wasteful of resources (cpu - memory and screen). With the size of Disk Drives we can leave disk out so that you can dynamically install anything you left out.

The version of Windows and Office that can be configured to use just the resources that the user requires might be worth considering.

Imagine if Office and Windows could dump things you don't use much and if you did need them it would start the service after asking you if you want to use it once or if you will be using it regularly. And when you stop using it regularly it would shut it down either silently or by prompt.

# Architecture & Stuff said on September 1, 2008 1:48 PM:

I don't ordinarily just copy stuff that someone else sends me into my blog, but this is an exception. 

# Vladimir Cvajniga said on September 2, 2008 6:04 AM:

Could you also speed-up the "System is preparing installation" procedure when switching between various versions of Access (Word, etc.?) Or, eventually, fix this bug... which would be the BEST, of course.

# Oli-S said on September 2, 2008 2:32 PM:

Interesting enough Slashdot is reporting on IE8 Beta 2 eating up plenty of RAM and threads to boost its performance. That might work on latest high end multi core processors but will it run as fast on single core machines?

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/02/1418252.shtml

# Vladimir Cvajniga said on September 2, 2008 7:34 PM:

Off-topic (?): Help needed!

Access 2007 CZ SP1 randomly crashes after right mouse click in a form. Same form works OK in A2002. When I double right-click I have crash in almost 100% of attempts. There's a pop-up menu on a right-click. The menu was created in A2007 and came into A2007 through A2002. My project is MDB.

I think the crashes happen due to very slow graphic performace of A2007 but I may be wrong.

Is there any fix for this bug, please?

# Vladimir Cvajniga said on September 2, 2008 7:37 PM:

Oops:

"The menu was created in A2007..." stays for "The menu was created in A97..."

Sorry, guys & gals. :-/

# Vladimir Cvajniga said on September 3, 2008 6:29 AM:

Off-topic: Desperately need help on Access crashes after right mouse click, see http://www.utteraccess.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=83&Number=1707673&Zf=&Zw=&Zg=0&Zl=a&Main=1707673&Search=true&where=&Zu=122546&Zd=l&Zn=&Zt=34&Zs=&Zy=#Post1707673&Zp=.

Thank you very much in advance.

# D said on September 4, 2008 3:36 PM:

Off-Topic:

Does the team worry that the Access EULA does not exclude it from being used for voting machines? Don't you think this is overstepping the intent of use, when Access is relatively easy to subvert compared to SQL Server Express?

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