Access was more popular with a certain crowd, way back.
Then the client-server world dominated the desktop, plus we needed automated backups and source control and tests and scalability and auditing and hosting and security and other really important things that never properly made there way into Access. Presumably Microsoft didn't want to cannabilize SQL Server sales and chose not to invest in those things that would have actually made it an MVP for building home-grown apps.
Then the client-server world dominated the desktop, plus we needed automated backups and source control and tests and scalability and auditing and hosting and security and other really important things that never properly made there way into Access. Presumably Microsoft didn't want to cannabilize SQL Server sales and chose not to invest in those things that would have actually made it an MVP for building home-grown apps.