Sadly agree with latest comments but think (hope?) there's still much (some?) we don't know. Certainly M know their installed base and have modeled our (customers) reaction to the upgrade plan/price list. I don't see why they would want to create a two tier customer base, effectively segmenting the many old product users from the very few newest of customers.JimK

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