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[KingSparta]

To Valued Jasc Customers,

We are very pleased to share some exciting news with you that will deliver immediate benefits to valued Jasc customers. Corel Corporation, one of the industry's top ten packaged software vendors, today acquired Jasc Software, Inc.

This acquisition will yield real benefits to all Paint Shop customers. We intend to put the powerful R&D resources of the newly-combined companies behind the popular Paint Shop family, ensuring that next-generation Paint Shop products will continue to flourish. Finally, we will continue to provide service and support to all Paint Shop customers. Our primary goal is to ensure that your critical needs are effectively met.

Corel is best known for our graphics, office and personal productivity solutions, including CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect Office Suite and the Corel Painter Natural-Media® painting and illustration software. With the addition of the Paint Shop family, we can now provide you a complete migration path from the most basic photo editing, organizing and sharing, to image improvement and retouching, all the way to advanced image editing and graphics creation.

An Expanded Product Portfolio At Very Competitive Price Points
Corel can offer you greater access to the most innovative, reliable and affordable packaged software portfolio in the industry. Our products rival other brands in quality, performance and reliability - but at a much lower cost to you.

Product Type Competitive Product Corel Product
Office Productivity Microsoft Office Standard: $399 WordPerfect Office Suite: $299
Graphics Suites Adobe Creative Suite Standard: $999 CorelDRAW Graphics Suite $399
Advanced Digital Photo Editing Adobe Photoshop: $649 Paint Shop Pro: $129
Digital Photo Management/Editing Adobe Photoshop Elements & Album: $149.98 Paint Shop Pro Studio: $79

We are thrilled to add the Paint Shop family to our growing portfolio of packaged software products and we look forward to meeting your business and personal software needs with this expanded range of affordable products. Also, you can rest assured that the combined development resources of Corel and Jasc will drive significant product innovation well into the future. For more information, please review the press release and FAQ.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jasc or visit www.corel.com.

Sincerely,
Amish Mehta, CEO
Corel Corporation

[Stupid User]

Maybe I am simply paranoid, but acquisitions always make me nervous.  Typically, if I work for an acquired company, I get laid off.  If I'm just a customer of an acquired company, I see the product given new graphics, an 80% update fee tacked on for the benefit of a reworked "About" box, and support dropped for the version I have.

[KingSparta]

an 80% update fee tacked on for the benefit of a reworked "About" box

Funny

Advanced tools for advanced imaginations
 
Thank you for your interest in upgrading!
 
If you own a previous versions of Paint Shop Pro you qualify for special upgrade pricing! You can upgrade to Paint Shop Pro 9 for only:

$55 (Download) / $59 (Boxed)

Customers in the US and Canada, can find out if they are eligible for special upgrade pricing. Just enter the e-mail address you used when you registered your software and click submit.
 

 

[verucktwolf]

I purchased MC 9 some time ago and liked it very much, so much so that I have  recommended it to quite a few people who have in turn purchased MC 10. My PC was stolen around 9 months ago and I have just recently replaced it. The fact that it took me almost a month to find a copy of 9.1 (it is not available on your website) was bad enough but to no longer have my old email address in your database so that I can't renew my licence now is about to much. Is it a j river practice to sell a product and then not support it beyond a certain time limit? I would greatly appreciate it if some one from your company would help me with this. I would like to continue using and promoting your products but it's kind of hard to promote something that isn't fully supported by the company that released it.

[KingSparta]

The fact that it took me almost a month to find a copy of 9.1 (it is not available on your website)

Yes it Is, It Is Also Aval On My Own Website

it's kind of hard to promote something that isn't fully supported by the company that released it.

It Is 2 Versions Old, They Are Currently On MC11, Most companys need to drop support for old versions.

you are in luck however, J river has allowed MJ8 and MC9 users a Upgrade path to the latest version, you should take advantage of it before it is too late.

That also has nothing to do with this thread

[JimH]

You can find a link to it in our FAQ near the top of this thread.

[verucktwolf]

I think allowing the upgrade is a great move and thank you for that. I am still in the same position however, your database doesn't recognize my old email address and therefore doesn't allow me to renew my license. I have succesfully changed my email and re-aquired my license a couple of times in the past due to system crashes etc and I don't recall needing a password to do it. If you would be kind enough, let's just assume I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed (not a big leap believe me) and walk me through the steps I need to take to get up and running with the MC 11 upgrade (I have MC 11 downloaded but not installed) without spending more money. I do know all of the email addresses that I used in the past and more to the point the address to which you last sent me a registration code (mblangbehn@hotmail.com). As I said before I don't recall ever needing a password to get a new reg code but I do recall pretty much every one I would have used since orriginally purchasing MC 9 if that will help. My appologies for using the wrong thread but this is what I got when I did a search in the interact forum for customer service so I just went with it. As far as finding a copy of MC 9 goes, you do have a link to it on your website but it comes up with a site not found message when I link to it, this is also the case with cnet, bestdownload.com and several other software websites. I had to use a p2p network to find it and even that was no small task. Thanks for the help.