the company have changed course - they now major on website design and the creation of in-house documents; that is where they see their future; the graphics side of the program has reached a level of maturity that means it is not cost effective to concentrate on changes to it at the expense of the other two

to say xara has slipped into obscurity is incorrect... it may be more obscure in the field of graphic design [although I am not convinced it is any more than it ever was], but as you can see from this forum for example. the website side of the program is alive and kicking, and I understand the sara cloud is too

in a relationship things can change, you cannot make things be what you want them to be... if you are not prepared to wait, you move on