Editing Microsoft Access (section)

===Project Cirrus===

After the Omega project was scrapped, some of its developers were assigned to the Cirrus project (most were assigned to the team which created Visual Basic).<ref name="Goodhew1996-11"/> Its goal was to create a competitor for applications like [[Paradox (database)|Paradox]] or dBase that would work on Windows.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Microsoft's Fox purchase stirs up the XBase market|first1=Lisa|last1=Picarille|first2=Scott|last2=Mace|newspaper=InfoWorld|date=March 30, 1992|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5j0EAAAAMBAJ|quote=Cirrus (...) will go head-to-head with Paradox and Metaphor Computer Systems' Metaphor program.}}</ref> After Microsoft acquired [[FoxPro 2|FoxPro]], there were rumors that the Microsoft project might get replaced with it,<ref>{{Cite news|title=Whatever costume Eckhard wears is likely to scare Silicon Graphics|first=Robert X.|last=Cringely|newspaper=InfoWorld|date=November 4, 1991|page=118|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xz0EAAAAMBAJ|quote=(...) rumor (...) that FoxPro might replace Redmond's long-delayed database, now code-named Cirrus.}}</ref> but the company decided to develop them in parallel. It was assumed that the project would make use of [[Extensible Storage Engine]] (Jet Blue)<ref>{{Cite news|title=Microsoft creating API to complement ODBC|first=Scott|last=Mace|newspaper=InfoWorld|date=June 29, 1992|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blEEAAAAMBAJ|quote=Open ISAM support will be in Microsoft's forthcomming Cirrus DBMS for Windows.}}</ref> but, in the end, only support for [[Jet Database Engine]] (Jet Red) was provided. The project used some of the code from both the Omega project and a pre-release version of Visual Basic.<ref name="FergusonBirth"/> In July 1992, betas of Cirrus shipped to developers<ref>{{Cite news|title=Developers get beta version of Microsoft DBMS|newspaper=InfoWorld|date=July 13, 1992|page=3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=elEEAAAAMBAJ}}</ref> and the name Access became the official name of the product.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Cirrus dubbed Access; faster beta released|newspaper=InfoWorld|first=Stuart J.|last=Johnston|date=July 20, 1998|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IlEEAAAAMBAJ}}</ref> "Access" was originally used for an older terminal emulation program from Microsoft. Years after the program was abandoned, they decided to reuse the name here.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060413-09/?p=31543|title=Where did the name for Microsoft Access come from?|publisher=Microsoft|work=The Old New Thing|date=April 13, 2006|access-date=March 13, 2016}}</ref>