What happened to Pivot Table view in Access 2013?

Some of what I've said is clearly opinion. But what I've said about the focus of the Access product is mostly from team members past and present. So is fact.

And I have never denied that Access has always had features that cater to developers. That's why such an extensive developer community has grown up around it. But this has happened not because of any specific design on Microsoft's part but in spite of it.

Thanks for decoding the TLA.

Primary focus maybe not but its a moot point when so many developers like me jumped on board. It had significant features for developers comparable with the xBase competition. 

Yeah, Microsoft acquired FoxPro and look what they did to that.

Your "facts" are just second hand opinions, ones you have no doubt filtered through you own beliefs. 

The salient facts here are that Microsoft designed the database product with a significant number of features that could only have been aimed at developers. Why deny it?

No I'm not disputing that, what I am saying is that the primary focus of Access has always been the end user or small workgroup. That the primary focus has never been developers. Most of the developer features have arisen to give knowledge workers the ability to create apps that a workgroup can use. It was never the intention to create a dbase/Foxpro platform. MS already had FoxPro for that level.

This is a fact that I have learned from being involved in the Access community for many years and having many discussion with people from Microsoft who were involved in the growth and development of Access. So anyone who believes that Access was ever designed as a tool for developers is ignorant of these facts. 

ULS is User Level Security. It's the security model you refer to. It was deprecated from the 2007 and later file format, but its still there if you want to use the mdb format.

Hi Scott. I'm glad you're not looking for a fight. Me neither. 

I think the point of contention is what constitutes an "inaccuracy". You have your opinion and I have mine. The fact remains that Microsoft designed a number of features into Access (e.g. runtime, security model, ADP, upsizing wizard, pivot table etc) that are pretty obviously aimed at developers and not end users. 

I am not sure why anyone would have an agenda to try to dispute that but you seem to be such a person.

Please tell me more about ULS.