From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2026/1/9 11:23:55, Jim the Geordie wrote:   
   > In article <6znfywltn2sm$.dlg@v.nguard.lh>, V@nguard.LH says...   
   >>   
   >> Jim the Geordie  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I have used Microsoft Publisher 'for ever' to produce items like posters   
   >>> with images.   
   >>> M$ tell me that Publisher will no longer work after sometime later this   
   >>> year (2026).   
      
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   > In fact, when I opened Publisher, for the first time in months a red   
   > box, with white text, appeared at the top right of the screen. The gist   
   > was that I *would not be able to use* Publisher (no version mentioned)   
   > after October 2026. There was no reason given and the message   
   > disappeared and did not appear again, either during that use of   
   > Publisher or when opened later. I am pretty sure that it said 'Will be   
      
   That sounds very odd! Particularly it not appearing again.   
      
   > unable to use' rather than 'Will no longer be supported', because as a   
   > user if Windows 10, that later phrase would not have bothered me and I   
   > would not have asked the question.   
      
   Agreed. (Though I _think_ I have seen the scaremongering "not be able to   
   use" phrase used to _mean_ the "will no longer be supported" one, by   
   some - not sure whether that includes Microsoft.)   
      
   Anyone else recognise the red box with white text?   
      
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   >> Office 2021   
   >> Home & Student:    Core applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and   
   >>                    OneNote.   
   >> Home & Business:   Core applications and Outlook.   
   >> Professional:      Core applications, and Outlook, Publisher, and   
   >>                    Access.   
   >> Professional Plus: Core applications, and Outlook, Publisher, Access,   
   >>                    and Teams.   
   >>   
   > It would seem I have the Professional version. I would not have   
   > downloaded it without Publisher. I don't recollect having Teams.   
   >   
   >   
   Assuming it's the same thing (which is probably an invalid assumption -   
   MS are infamous for using the same names for different things, and   
   multiple names for the same thing): I had Skype (free). A few months   
   ago, it told me it was ceasing to exist, and downloaded something to   
   replace itself - and I'm pretty sure that was called Teams. (I haven't   
   used it since, though when it opened, it showed the last conversation   
   I'd been having in Skype.) [I'd probably use - or have my interlocutor   
   use, if I'm honest! - Zoom these days, if I wanted that sort of tool.]   
      
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