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Microsoft is killing Office 2021 in October to push you onto Microsoft 365, how to fight back (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I'm the only person in the world that still uses Publisher, and they've announced the end of support for that, too, at the same time, I assume. I don't use it for anything online, I just use it to create documents and posters and stuff, and I never use online resources.

I don't expect anything from them, and I don't hook it up to the Internet, so it will keep working, right?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    publisher just flat-out got the axe. it's even getting taken away from '365' subscribers in a few months. i have a few users that will be affected. they are not happy campers.

    if you have it as part of your particular edition and version of (perpetual) office, yea. it should continue to function.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    For testing I installed a perpetual version of publisher 2019 in a VM (only publisher, edited the XML setup file) and activated with massgrave. It has a banner on top that says that on October it will automatically uninstall and there will be no way to open the proprietary files anymore

    I hope it's just that they didn't test the message and that it was meant only for office 365 and not all the perpetual versions

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I just want it to function like it does. I don't expect online help, or to go to their online pre-Y2K clip art library, I just want to move text boxes around.

    I've been using it for 30 years, I'm a bit of an expert. I have lots of favorite tricks I've figured out. I don't want to learn new tricks.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Have you tried Scribus? It's a good open source alternative to Publisher and if it meets your needs it could spare you having to do a lot of faff around trying to keep Publisher going into the future.

    But I get wanting to stick with something familiar. It's unlikely you'll lose access to Publisher in the short term. But I'd consider moving to something else now so you're not scrambling should Publisher stop working for whatever reason.

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