Microsoft Access developers have been complaining forever that the Access Runtime should be free to distribute. Microsoft has finally heard the pleas! When the Access Developer Extensions 2007 are released (scheduled for March 2007), they'll be free to download and redistribute.
That's a cost savings of US$549 (upgrade version) or US$799 (full version) for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO). Most editions of VSTO included the Access Developer Extentions (ADE), which includes the unlimited Access Runtime redistribution license.
In case you don't know what the Access Runtime is, the Runtime is a slightly cut-down version of Access installed on computers that don't have the retail version of Access, so that Access developers can distribute their database applications without the customer having to purchase a retail license for Access for every computer that the database application runs on. What is "slightly cut-down"? It's missing the design capabilities of the retail product, built-in menus, and graphics filters, but is otherwise fully functional for tables, queries, forms, reports, modules, and macros.
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