Can someone please verify the latest version of DPX17

[MB365]

Matt writes:

Can you give us a link? That sounds great!

In a simple summary, the program is a time credit for an active update service on the future renewal of DP+. Every user is different in terms of products owned and the cost/timing of the update service so we must deal with users individually. Contact us via the chat on xara.com or in xara cloud.

[Acorn]

In a simple summary, the program is a time credit for an active update service on the future renewal of DP+. Every user is different in terms of products owned and the cost/timing of the update service so we must deal with users individually. Contact us via the chat on xara.com or in xara cloud.

Matt, I think you need to make this 100% crystal clear as many TGers are baffled by Product Names, Magix/Xara responsibilities and the updating frequency.

Something like:

• Xara is in a position to offer extant Magix Update Service (MUS) purchasers a wonderful opportunity to transition across to the Xara Cloud+/Xara Designer Pro+ combo at equitable rates that include the LIFETIME 50% discount.
• This only applies to active MUS users of Xara Designer Pro version 17 (XDPXv17) and upwards.
• It does not cover the other Xara Desktop applications but if you step up to our flagship product (Pro+), you are still getting a great deal with our LIFETIME 50% discount offer.
• The combo is a monthly/yearly subscription model.
• You still retain your existing XDPXv17 licence but if we extend your subscription by the remaining time in your MUS then you will lose the on-line services; the XDPXv17 will still work but only with your local assets.
• If you let your combo subscription lapse, you lose all access to the combo. You can resubscribe a month at a time so if your business model could be XDPXv17 development with latter resubscription when engaged with your client.
• Subscribing for the combo always delivers the latest updates. Your lapsed XDPXv17 may not be able to handle these but you always have the opportunity to test and renew your combo subscription.
• You gain use of Xara Cloud Pro+, which can be used interactively with Xara Designer Pro+ and, importantly, your clients.
• Magix are no longer involved so your Website M access will expire too.
• Xara is considering alternative hosting arrangements.
• Xara offers on-line help through Xara Cloud with industry-leading response times.
• Xara is more agile in delivering product updates to the combo so bug fixes are frequent and targeted so you do not have to wait for your MUS renewal to secure important features.

i must stress, this is the the type of communication I would like and expect to hear from Xara rather than have to collate everything I have listed through lots of time-consuming questions.

Acorn

[condor365]

Matt, I think you need to make this 100% crystal clear as many TGers are baffled by Product Names, Magix/Xara responsibilities and the updating frequency.

Something like:

• Xara is in a position to offer extant Magix Update Service (MUS) purchasers a wonderful opportunity to transition across to the Xara Cloud+/Xara Designer Pro+ combo at equitable rates that include the LIFETIME 50% discount.
• This only applies to active MUS users of Xara Designer Pro version 17 (XDPXv17) and upwards.
• It does not cover the other Xara Desktop applications but if you step up to our flagship product (Pro+), you are still getting a great deal with our LIFETIME 50% discount offer.
• The combo is a monthly/yearly subscription model.
• You still retain your existing XDPXv17 licence but if we extend your subscription by the remaining time in your MUS then you will lose the on-line services; the XDPXv17 will still work but only with your local assets.
• If you let your combo subscription lapse, you lose all access to the combo. You can resubscribe a month at a time so if your business model could be XDPXv17 development with latter resubscription when engaged with your client.
• Subscribing for the combo always delivers the latest updates. Your lapsed XDPXv17 may not be able to handle these but you always have the opportunity to test and renew your combo subscription.
• You gain use of Xara Cloud Pro+, which can be used interactively with Xara Designer Pro+ and, importantly, your clients.
• Magix are no longer involved so your Website M access will expire too.
• Xara is considering alternative hosting arrangements.
• Xara offers on-line help through Xara Cloud with industry-leading response times.
• Xara is more agile in delivering product updates to the combo so bug fixes are frequent and targeted so you do not have to wait for your MUS renewal to secure important features.

i must stress, this is the the type of communication I would like and expect to hear from Xara rather than have to collate everything I have listed through lots of time-consuming questions.

Acorn

Yes I agree entirely thank you Acorn for putting it in a nutshell (pardon the pun!!)
Why do we need to be a professor to understand an update/upgrade.

Far too complicated!! I do Hope between Xara and Magix can collaborate and
make the choices far less complicated going forward.
Condor
make this a simple transition
Condor

[behzad]

I think eventually Xara will be alone wolf and then it will rename Xara. I will check on my own comment in a few years or less.

[handrawn]

the mish-mash of product variants is a marketing ploy typical of the likes of magix not xara; no coincidence the variants started appearing shortly after xara and magix linked up...

now xara have their own 'lone-wolf' again in the '+' and cloud, maybe they will do some renaming...

matt has yet to convince me that the legacy xara products have a real future long-term - xara may still be control of the coding, but if the distribution is up to magix then the question is what priority does magix give them ?