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title: "Why don’t many people use Microsoft Access?"  
description: "Why don’t many people use Microsoft Access?"  
author: "Sanjay Goenka"  
published: 2022-03-31  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96639/why-don-t-many-people-use-microsoft-access  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "ms-access"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why don’t many people use Microsoft Access?

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## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- Microsoft Office, which was **first released in November 1990,** is over 30 years old. There aren't many **software** packages that have lasted as long as this one. The Microsoft bundle, on the other hand, has changed over time. Some elements will be added, while others will be removed. Microsoft Access is one of the productivity suite's components that hasn't been removed.
- In 1992, Access made its debut. Microsoft had been working on a desktop database management system for years and had finally succeeded in purchasing one of the market leaders, FoxPro. Despite the fact that Microsoft continued to promote and develop FoxPro, it was able to use some of its new acquisition's technology and services to jump-start its own database engine project.

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