ACCESS is so good that MS is killing it because is a big competitor of VS. ACCESS is the fastest RAD tool and you can do petty good desktop and web applications for SME or departments almost without code. Access it is simply fantastic. And of course there are millions of people using ACCESS.

.NET has overloaded . operator. (. is equal +) that way 8.1 = 9 That is why Next Windows is 10 :)

Visual Basic .NET have almost all those features