Comment I had never even seen it before (Score 1) 26
The first version of office I installed was before Office95. I certainly didn't install all of them (and haven't installed one in some time now) but I don't remember seeing Publisher listed. I also don't remember ever seeing someone send out a file from it.
This might be - at least in part - due to having seen Quark XPress at my work starting in 2000. Nobody wanted to use anything else for layout there. My wife has used by Quark and Adobe InDesign for a couple decades now, and I doubt she ever heard of MS Publisher.
Unfortunately though this likely means the last users of MS Publisher are going to switch to attempting to use Word to layout documents, and we all know how atrocious that is. Honestly the world would be better if people did layout in MS Paint than in MS Word.
This might be - at least in part - due to having seen Quark XPress at my work starting in 2000. Nobody wanted to use anything else for layout there. My wife has used by Quark and Adobe InDesign for a couple decades now, and I doubt she ever heard of MS Publisher.
Unfortunately though this likely means the last users of MS Publisher are going to switch to attempting to use Word to layout documents, and we all know how atrocious that is. Honestly the world would be better if people did layout in MS Paint than in MS Word.