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toyg on April 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Finding an Easter Egg in Microsoft Bob

Access is not just a database, it allows for custom VBA code and controls. I can see why supporting old versions would be a burden (are you really going to ship all VBA engines ever shipped for 20 years, with all the inevitable security holes they likely still have...?)

detritus on April 28, 2021 [–]

Good point, I hadn't considered that. But the example here seems to be literally a spreadsheet's worth of content, in a database format.

At least ignore the code and allow importation of the content?

Anyway, I don't much care and am being downvoted to heck (!) - I just thought it an odd restriction.

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