The statement is utter nonsense and completely false ...
I am a Microsoft Access MVP and can assure you there is not, nor has there ever has been any plan to drop Access.
Access 12 is being developed by the Access Team as we speak and will be more robust and full of new and exciting features.
Clint Covington is a member here at Utter Access and is the Lead Program Manager for Access at Microsoft and is "directly involved" with the the next version release of Access.
This version is slated to be released sometimes in 2006 ...
I will post more details on this new version as some as the information becomes publicly available ....
So don't give that hoax another thought .. I can assure you Access will be around for a long while ..

RDH