Corel refugee here refusing to buy another upgrade license.
I have been using open and free code to do all I can.
Don't mind paying for great apps, and these guys offering almost all the operating systems I value in their universal license and at only $170?
Sweet deal, I may buy in.
That said, I find this software collection worth a donation:
Http://portableapps.com
It is possible to load a serious setup quicker than you are used to.
Very highly recommended.
It would be great to see someone like this make an alternative to Office as well. I’d be glad to pay. I know some open source options exist but they always feel behind the times to me compared to Office.
I remember using their software over 20 years ago, so it should be
I actually bought the boxed edition of PageStream with my paper boy money, even though I was just a high school student at the time. That's how much into it I was. :-)
(The skillsets picked up from this along with Assembly on the Amiga transitioned reasonably well into a career of web development and software engineering.)
Compare this to any SaaS app that disappears immediately.
So yeah, if you have any Publisher files, you're fucked.
O365 pretty much killed Office for us. We barely use it in house now. At best it's hosted email. We don't even use the calendar / contact stuff as it doesn't sync with any phones properly. Apple won there by a mile. If only they did an enterprise iCloud+ with custom domain we'd just stop paying for O365 I suspect other than for a couple of Excel die hards.
What's the point of coy language like this? This is a general pattern I've noticed of people using weasel words because they think it will protect them from liability. Stop this pretence that saying "thepiratebay" is going to get you in trouble. It won't. This is a forum for adults, so let's talk like adults without bringing euphemisms and self-censorship in here.
Unless you were doing it to seem humorous, in which case go ahead. I didn't find it humorous but humour is subjective.
Also, you might want to have a look at the open source "Scribus". I never liked it too much, but it gets a lot of jobs done.
It's quite a nice app. Works well.
Eventually I migrated to Scribus, because I could use that from my FreeBSD desktop. I'm cool like that.
> Microsoft 365 subscribers will no longer be able to open or edit Publisher files in Publisher
Ugh ... Local desktop software mostly just keeps working, even old versions (we used a pretty old Publisher version, as we had a license for that). I know there's a year and a half of lead-time, but lots of smaller publications that are already on Publisher and work fine now need to migrate. Great.
And Word and PowerPoint have a completely different workflow; IMHO it's not really a replacement. It's like deprecating Vim and telling everyone Emacs is the replacement. Like, no: yes, it can do everything Vim can, but it's completely different (even with the "Vim mode" plugin things).
Killing access to old files is an abomination of a choice.
Desktop publishing professionals don’t use Publisher - nowadays mostly they use Adobe InDesign, 20 years ago it was mainly QuarkXpress. Also Adobe FrameMaker - InDesign is more heavily used for consumer-facing output such as magazines and brochures, FrameMaker more for technical documentation
Microsoft Publisher was always a tool targeted at home users, small businesses-even if some of its users were “professionals” in other contexts it was never a professional tool
