FROM AN EMAIL BY MSFT
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Beginning 10/1/2026, Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported as part of Microsoft 365. Many common Publisher scenarios are available in other Microsoft 365 apps, including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
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Microsoft is killing Microsoft Publisher just like it did with its ChromeOS competitor. Off to the “Microsoft Mothball Vault”.
Of course there’s no reduction in price. Argh! Call it what it is “shrinkflation”. They give it the FU treatment and “deprecate” it. Or whatever you want to call it — “sunsetting”!
Unlike when Google SHERLOCKED (i.e., copy a successful product and give it away for free) like BITLY, they “deprecated” it like so many other GOOGLE “products and services”.
So to recap, we have seen: the #Google Graveyard, #AT&T_ashcan; IoT products to their own graveyard; #DROPBOX dustbin; Amazon has “sunset”; and … … … …
… … … … the worst of all Google introduced “End of Life” to Chromebooks when I thought that Google had created the computer that was closest to an appliance like a toaster. But they threw in the EOL as planned obsolesce!
At least a toaster just sits there are works, unlike all this other <synonym for excrement>!
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Reinke Faces Life 