By editorial@silicon.com, 28 August 1998 16:41
NEWS US reports claim Microsoft has admitted that a bug in its Access database software affects all versions of the product. According to the reports, the company, which had earlier stated that the bug only affects Access 97, said those claims were "premature". Further testing has revealed that versions 2.0 and 95 are also vulnerable, the company said. The bug, which corrupts data without the user realising it, occurs after a record on a form is deleted. If, without closing the form, the user then searches for another record and changes it using the popular combo box tool, the changed data is saved to the wrong record. Microsoft has posted an advisory article on its technical support Web site, and is working on a free software patch for the bug. The company was unavailable to comment on when the patch will be available for download, or whether it will cater for older versions of Access.
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