Microsoft Office 2003 compatibility - Specifically - Access 2003!

We had to purchase a new computer due to lightning hitting our office. The
only one we could find that met our requirements has the Vista OS. We are
using a peer to peer network via a hub system and the boss won't let us get a
server. We use a custom designed database in Access 2003 with the back end
of the database on my computer and front end on each computer. I need to
know how compatible Vista is with Access 2003- everything I've found has
referred to Word and Excell. Any suggestions/recommendations? We can't
update the rest of our computers until next year (unless we get hit by
lightning again). I did find a good link on how to set up the peer to peer
between her Vista and our XP systems thanks to Tek-Tips Forums (insert
Recommendation for them here - they are great!).

On Apr 19, 10:30 pm, GinaStar <GinaS...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> We had to purchase a new computer due to lightning hitting our office. The
> only one we could find that met our requirements has the Vista OS. We are
> using a peer to peer network via a hub system and the boss won't let us get a
> server. We use a custom designed database in Access 2003 with the back end
> of the database on my computer and front end on each computer. I need to
> know how compatible Vista is with Access 2003- everything I've found has
> referred to Word and Excell. Any suggestions/recommendations? We can't
> update the rest of our computers until next year (unless we get hit by
> lightning again). I did find a good link on how to set up the peer to peer
> between her Vista and our XP systems thanks to Tek-Tips Forums (insert
> Recommendation for them here - they are great!).

My experience with Vista has been horrible. I had to re-write a few of
my Access Modules (2003) because of subtle quirks which weren't always
obvious. My issues were not only limited to Office and Vista but
generally between other applications and systems. It took a week just
to get my Vista box working between issues with my router and SBS 2003
server. My recommendation is spend a few extra dollars and buy a copy
of XP for the new computer. If Vista will run on it so will XP. Hold
onto your license of Vista and after a year or two when MS and other
vendors have work out all of their issues with older apps, upgrade the
computer.

Thanks for the quick Reply!! We are planning to upgrade all of the comps to
Vista eventually along with office 2007..and I will be completely
reprogramming/upgrading the databases at that time (the databases need to be
upgraded anyway - I've been planning on doing some revamping to their layout
- I usually do about once every other year just to clean up any coding
problems that have gotten into them while in use!). heh..the databases were
originally designed in Access 2.0..so that tells you how long I've been
"smoothing out the kinks" in them. I end up "writing on the fly" a lot of
stuff as we need it, so every two years I try to go in and merge code from
behind forms/reports into general modules and generally try to just clean it
up..Doesn't really make much difference if I just upgrade to a new version at
the same time..I just get me a new reference book to look up how to handle
the things I don't know how to do..and refer to the web for hints and tips...
I love sites like this..and Tek Tips...

I will take your advice into account...We will most likely wait as long as
we can..
"Ed" wrote:

> On Apr 19, 10:30 pm, GinaStar <GinaS...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> My experience with Vista has been horrible. I had to re-write a few of
> my Access Modules (2003) because of subtle quirks which weren't always
> obvious. My issues were not only limited to Office and Vista but
> generally between other applications and systems. It took a week just
> to get my Vista box working between issues with my router and SBS 2003
> server. My recommendation is spend a few extra dollars and buy a copy
> of XP for the new computer. If Vista will run on it so will XP. Hold
> onto your license of Vista and after a year or two when MS and other
> vendors have work out all of their issues with older apps, upgrade the
> computer.
>
>

"GinaStar" <GinaStar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> We had to purchase a new computer due to lightning hitting our office.
> The
> only one we could find that met our requirements has the Vista OS. We are
> using a peer to peer network via a hub system and the boss won't let us
> get a
> server. We use a custom designed database in Access 2003 with the back
> end
> of the database on my computer and front end on each computer. I need to
> know how compatible Vista is with Access 2003- everything I've found has
> referred to Word and Excell. Any suggestions/recommendations? We can't
> update the rest of our computers until next year (unless we get hit by
> lightning again). I did find a good link on how to set up the peer to peer
> between her Vista and our XP systems thanks to Tek-Tips Forums (insert
> Recommendation for them here - they are great!).

Best to post to an Access newsgroup. Look under microsoft.public.access

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]