$300 dollars MORE for this upgrade!

This has to be the greediest company in the entire software universe.

You may recall that despite thousands of pleas from their (at the time loyal) customer base, Quark refused to support Mac OSX for almost 2 years after Apple launched X.

Opps. Slight corporate blunder there I'd say.

Then when they finally caught on, and figured out that "Classic", OS9 was becoming a part of the past and they had missed the boat, the best they could do was to slap together a shabby port of the lousy old app, complete with all the same bugs and missing features, and the same clunky old classic-looking and classic-feeling interface. I mean, you couldn't even drag and drop text around properly in their "flagship" page layout program! (probably still can't).

Then to add insult to injury they ask users to pay large fees for each upgrade, more than the price of two new complete Mac OSX operating systems. And these Quark upgrades, at least so far have been astonishingly underwhelming.

And then, just as an added perk, they make the entire upgrade process as counter-intuitive, arcane and unpleasant as can possibly be.

So here they are again with yet another expensive upgrade, most likely with the habitual longer-than-your-arm security codes, which you have to enter manually, character by character, by hand (no copy and paste) as if you were trying to gain access to Fort Knox or something. Infuriating.

Do I begin to sound a touch bitter?

This is the most user-hostile, cheap and greedy company in all of software publishing today. To say Quark treats their customers without the proper sense of respect or appreciation would be a gynormous understatement. Quark treats us all with utter contempt. Just try calling them for support, if you want to see what sort of company you are dealing with here.

Those of us who still have old projects in QXP that we have to use from time to time may have to put up with this nonsense until the weight of Quark's mismanagement finally pulls them under for good. But that will be a happy day.

Thank goodness Adobe has a superior competing product.