Conference/Cruise set for a 7-Day Jaunt from Fort Lauderdale in October The PowerXChange has announced, via its e-newsletter, a 7-day Carribean cruise/QuarkXPress 7 training conference slated for this coming October. Called “CruiseXPress”, the event is chartered through Ocean Class Cruises, a company that specializes in seaborne training conferences. The event boasts Frank Romano as keynote…

Next Gen XPress launch to be celebrated; actual release date unclear According to The Mac Observer (citing Design Tools Monthly), Quark, Inc is slated to fete XPress 7 with an invitation-only launch party in New York on 23 May 2006. Whether or not the product will actually start shipping on the 23rd is still an…

New Public Beta set to expire 1 May 2006 As promised by Quark (and reported earlier here) the QuarkXPress 7 Public Beta 2 has been posted on Quark’s public beta website as of today, the day before the time bombs in the Public Beta 1 are set to go off; Public Beta 1 will become…

Macintosh users won’t see Universal until Creative Suite 3, says Adobe According to Terri Stone, Creativepro.com editor-in-chief (reported here, including a link to Seeking Alpha’s transcript of the call), during the conference call of 22 March discussing 2006 1st Quarter Adobe earnings, Adobe executives verified that Macintosh users won’t be seeing MacTel-native Creative Suite apps…