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 system (CMS) software, and even after extensive training, it took me weeks to become comfortable with the new version.
In other cases, we've worked with programs for so long that it seems unfathomable that they could go away or be replaced. I've used Microsoft Word since college in 1991, and probably started using Excel not long after.
My computer wasn't connected to the internet, because in those days the internet was just an academic repository. I didn't even have an email address, but using those two programs was essentially the same as using them now.
That made it hard to work for a company that uses Google Docs and Google Sheets instead of Microsoft Word and Excel. Except that, while my company does not pay for them, I can still use the Microsoft Office products and move documents to Google as needed.
That's not the case for the Office product, Publisher, which will begin a two-stage shutdown on Oct. 1.
Microsoft is killing Publisher
When Microsoft launched Publisher in 1991, it ...