Access 2003 OS System Specs?

[Just Me]

I looked at Microsoft's site for the OS system specs on
Access 2003. Am I reading that right?! Access 2003 ONLY
works on Windows 2000 or XP systems??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's IT?!!!

Can someone confirm that? I assume then the runtime files
as well will only work on 2000 and XP. True/False?

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Yup, http://www.microsoft.com/office/access/prodinfo/sysreq.mspx states that
you need either Win2000 or WinXP for Access 2003, and since the runtime is
the same executable, that would doubtlessly apply there as well.

According to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle.mspx NT 4.0
Workstation has been officially unsupported since June 30th of this year,
and Win98 and 98SE will be unsupported as of Jan 16th of next year, so I
guess they didn't feel it was worth worrying about all the additional
testing that would have been required to ensure it worked with those OS.

 

[Just Me]

Well that totally bites!!!!
And that's about as nice as I can say it.
They just lost the possibility of me upgrading to Access
2003. I guess I'll keep my money to myself.

-----Original Message-----
Yup,

http://www.microsoft.com/office/access/prodinfo/sysreq.mspx
states that

you need either Win2000 or WinXP for Access 2003, and since the runtime is
the same executable, that would doubtlessly apply there as well.

According to

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle.mspx NT 4.0