Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
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Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
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Re: Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
#2Previous discussion about this article from a year ago, though it looks like more details have been added since then (24 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39392257
Re: Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
#3I don’t think it was meaningfully updated for years. And now that web browsers grown to the point we have apps like draw.io or figma, I think it s was the right choice
Re: Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
#4If you have a Mac (or an iThing), Apple Pages offers a "Page layout" mode (distinct from "Word Processing" mode) that includes a bunch of nicely designed templates.
It's quite a nice app. Works well.
Re: Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
#5RIP. I'm very thankful that the desktop version of Publisher should be able to run in perpetuity in emulation.
Compare this to any SaaS app that disappears immediately.
Re: Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
#6I owe a debt of gratitude to Microsoft Publisher. Back in 1997 I was regularly using Microsoft Publisher for my primary school assignments. As soon as I realised that you could use it to create webpages, I was hooked! I was a bit too young at that point to understand coding things by hand, but with Publisher I could dive right in. And I haven't stopped since!
Re: Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
#7RIP. I'm very thankful that the desktop version of Publisher should be able to run in perpetuity in emulation. Compare this to any SaaS app that disappears immediately.
> Microsoft 365 subscribers will no longer be able to open or edit Publisher files in Publisher.
So yeah, if you have any Publisher files, you're fucked.
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#8I thought the point of office was to be paid tools for professionals? I last used publisher a week ago. Instead of software it seems they just want to push ads and AI slop. Shameful.
Re: Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
#9I owe a debt of gratitude to Microsoft Publisher. Back in 1997 I was regularly using Microsoft Publisher for my primary school assignments. As soon as I realised that you could use it to create webpages, I was hooked! I was a bit too young at that point to understand coding things by hand, but with Publisher I could dive right in. And I haven't stopped since!
I started with PageStream on the Amiga then later went to Publisher on the PC; I used both of them heaps, primarily for print - got myself a HP LaserJet 4P which was just glorious. Did club newsletters, school works / assignments, cafe menus, everything. Great times.
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.)
Re: Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
#10Next should be Visio, which is more than replaced by diagrams.net/draw.io