{"id":31543,"date":"2006-04-13T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/04\/13\/where-did-the-name-for-microsoft-access-come-from\/"},"modified":"2020-09-11T14:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T21:56:45","slug":"where-did-the-name-for-microsoft-access-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060413-09\/?p=31543","title":{"rendered":"Where did the name for Microsoft Access come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Why is the Microsoft Protection Service called \" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060412-09\/?p=31563\"> We&#8217;ve seen<\/a> how <a title=\"What was Dr. Watson's original name?\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051114-00\/?p=33353\"> the names for some Microsoft products<\/a> had to be changed due to a name conflict. I&#8217;m told that the people who had to come up with the name for the database product avoided this pitfall in a clever way: Instead of trying to avoid a name that was already taken, they intentionally used a name that <i>was<\/i> already taken: By Microsoft itself.<\/p>\n<p>They discovered that Microsoft had a long-forgotten terminal emulator product called Microsoft Access. &#8220;Access&#8221; sounded like an appropriate name for a database product, so they blew the dust off it and gave the name a new life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was already taken, but that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-31543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It was already taken, but that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}