Microsoft is retiring its 35-year-old desktop publishing software in October. Here’s how to save your Publisher files and what to use instead. It’s the end of a very long era: As of October 2026, ...

After reverse-engineering the Publisher file format, LibreOffice now allows users to access their unsupported Publisher files.

One of my first ever gigs was designing the menu leaflet for a restaurant using Microsoft Publisher. The first design has been the backbone of several editions printed over the years. Several people ...

Adam Anderly, founder of Texas-based Saint Systems, created PubKeep to replace Microsoft's application. PubKeep is ...

Two years after initially announcing the retirement of Microsoft Publisher, users are now starting to see in-app reminders that the software will soon stop working. For anyone who has become reliant ...

When Microsoft announced it was retiring Microsoft Publisher, developer Adam Anderly first built a converter to turn old ...

We have known for a little while that Microsoft Publisher is being killed off, and Microsoft is now starting to remind Microsoft 365 subscribers about when this is happening. In emails that are just ...

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Once you learn how to use a piece of software, it’s a challenge, at least for some of us, to adapt to something new. When I worked at the Boston Globe, for example, they updated our content management ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...