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cess the files from any of his devices on this home network. He has mimicked the Windows folder structure
on his NAS, and has Documents, Photos, Videos and Music folders amongst others.

Alan pointed out that, increasingly, Microsoft are trying to get users to store files in OneDrive ( Microsoft’s
cloud offering), however the amount of space provided for free may soon be exhausted.

Photo Competition 2024

Just a reminder of the topics for this years photographic competition which are listed below.

1. Weather

2. Fungi

3. People at Work

4. Selfie

5. Architecture

6. Collage

Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October

2026

With Microsoft’s and other companies efforts to get us to switch to online based software one potential prob-
lem has just become apparent to me.

In October 2026, Microsoft Publisher will reach its end of life. After that time, it will no longer be included in
Microsoft 365 and existing on-premises suites will no longer be supported. Until then, Publisher will contin-
ue and users can expect the same experience as today.
Many common Publisher scenarios including the creation of professionally branded templates, envelope and
label printing, and producing customized calendars, business cards, and programs are already available in
other Microsoft 365 apps such as Word and PowerPoint. You can find a wide array of customizable templates
at Microsoft Create.
You can continue to use Publisher with its current functionality until October 2026.

Support for the perpetual version of Publisher will end in October 2026, when Office LTSC 2021 reaches end
of support. Microsoft 365 customers will not be able to access Publisher from that date forward.

So if you have gone down the online route and have all your document templates set up you in an online pack-
age and the company takes that package away you might need to start all over again.