New Edge Browser Control in Microsoft Access

glasskuter · Aug 24, 2023

I can't say I understand it all but I feel it's as we've always suspected. If we want to use native Windows apps & have full benefit of all their features, we'll soon be tied to Office 365 and Onedrive, either directly or indirectly. Therefore, we'll all be forced into subscribing to Office 365 in order to have enough onedrive space to handle all the apps and services being integrated into it. MS assumes everyone in the world has fast, reliable internet. Just think, it all started with a simple little MS account. with 5gb of free storage and a ton of gullible users.

TraderGary · Aug 24, 2023

@glasskuter You certainly do have my sympathy for your, as you say, "Internet so slow I'm too embarrassed to tell". There's no question that to use OneDrive effectively it requires a reasonably fast and reliable Internet connection.

I'm fortunate to have a fast and reliable Internet connection where I live. I suppose you can call me a "gullible user", as I love my Microsoft 365 subscription and my terabyte of cloud OneDrive. I think it's an incredible buy at $69 annually.

jimbo45 · Aug 24, 2023

glasskuter said:
I can't say I understand it all but I feel it's as we've always suspected. If we want to use native Windows apps & have full benefit of all their features, we'll soon be tied to Office 365 and Onedrive, either directly or indirectly. Therefore, we'll all be forced into subscribing to Office 365 in order to have enough onedrive space to handle all the apps and services being integrated into it. MS assumes everyone in the world has fast, reliable internet. Just think, it all started with a simple little MS account. with 5gb of free storage and a ton of gullible users.

Access is a TERRIBLE DB system - if you want a decent FREE good proper REAL multi-user database system (Access breaks if concurrent users try and update things or it's locked etc) use MariaDB or MySQL.

Even the old Internet explorer could access local files by specifying the local file instead of a web URL so nothing new there - and you could even use it as a basic FTP mechanism too - a bit fiddly but it worked.

I've given up on Teams -- since the old Free Teams classic has been stopped -- the new free one is 100% JUNK -- you can't even do a small test video / audio check on your devices before giving or attending a meeting --- You don't need to have teams installed anyway if you are invited to a meeting. There's a load of better apps for this stuff for individuals who just want to make video calls.

I'm also sticking with the "Cheapo" office 2021 LTSC that I got until it no longer works -- judging also by how Office 2010 still works - and most of the "New stuff" in later versions you can more or less achieve a similar result in Office 2010 anyway - I suspect it will be YEARS before office/365 will be the only office suite able to run on Windows. Office LTSC 2021 is bound to work till at least 2040 or beyond assuming the license still works !!.

If people actually sat down and added up their subscriptions -- its often insidious tiny amounts - e.g a few € for digital daily papers, more € for subscription TV services, yet more € for cloud storage, non Ms Software licenses -- e.g things like Adobe etc that can amount to far more than they realize. Often well over the € 150 - € 200 per month mark !!. (Replace € by your local currency). Companies have realized that since the pace of new products that are only incrementally better than the existing ones is slowing so customers can't be persuaded to upgrade or replace products so often they've decided that the subscription business model is the only way to keep generating cash streams. - Well I'm not falling for this - unless I absolutely have to -- and then I want to pay at a discount a one off yearly fee -- I dont want 100's of trivial monthly direct debits of a few €.

Cheers
jimbo

New Edge Browser Control in Microsoft Access

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