>searched this site on this topic but am still unclear;
>I presumed that pre-Access07 the Visual/Access developer fee was
>conceptually a counterbalance (revenue-wise) for the fact that the end users
>were not needing to purchase the Access license for their desktop.
>
>Why is this changing in Access07 (am not complaining)...
It now has the Office logo and a "powered by Office Access 2007 on the
bottom. So it's marketing.
>Part 2 : for an end user to run an application w/ Access07 runtime must
>they have any Office07?....or is only XP necessary?? have searched around but
>haven't found resolution on this....
They don't need anything of Office. Just the runtime. But if you
mean the operating system it has to be Win XP or newer to run the
Access 2007 runtime.
Tony

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(david)
> searched this site on this topic but am still unclear;
> I presumed that pre-Access07 the Visual/Access developer fee was
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> but
> haven't found resolution on this....