1. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft 365 Publisher Retires Oct. 1: Convert .pub Files

    Microsoft 365 customers have 56 days left to open, convert, and verify Microsoft Publisher files before the app disappears from their subscription installs on October 1, 2026. The immediate risk is not that .pub files will be deleted from Windows, OneDrive, SharePoint, backups, or external...
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    Microsoft Publisher Ends October 1, 2026: Best Replacement Options

    Microsoft Publisher is approaching a hard transition point, and Windows users who have relied on it for flyers, church bulletins, club newsletters, business cards, brochures, calendars, and simple marketing collateral should start planning now. Microsoft 365 subscribers lose access to Publisher...
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    Microsoft Publisher Retirement: Migrate .pub Files Before October 2026

    Microsoft Publisher’s October 2026 retirement calls for a file-by-file migration plan: export completed records to PDF, move text-first material into Word, rebuild slide-like items in PowerPoint, and redesign layout-critical publications in a specialist workflow after testing the result with the...
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    Microsoft Publisher End of Life (Oct 2026): Best Alternatives & Migration Guide

    Microsoft Publisher will reach end of life in October 2026, ending Microsoft’s long-running Windows desktop publishing app after roughly 35 years and forcing schools, churches, small businesses, nonprofits, and enterprise teams to move their brochures, newsletters, flyers, and .pub archives...
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    Windows 11 SE and Microsoft Publisher End Support in Oct 2026: What to Do

    Microsoft is ending support in October 2026 for Windows 11 SE, its locked-down education edition for low-cost school PCs, and Microsoft Publisher, the desktop publishing app that has survived inside Office for more than three decades. The dates are not merely housekeeping entries on a lifecycle...