I have X6 right now, no premium subscription. Corel website is saying I can buy the premium subscription for $99 and describes the membership as enabling one to upgrade. I remember before that a premium subscription allows one to upgrade to any future versions. And it also states that on the link, from the menu item for About CorelDraw Membership.
However, all the FAQ information is for CorelDraw 7. Elsewhere, the upgrade price is listed at $199. I remember the premium subscription was always $99.
So, what are my options to upgrade from X6 to X7?
I might not understand what the premium membership is either. I know one gets new features as their are created, even though they may not be released. Corel also describes it as that you will have access to the next major upgrade as long as your membership is active. For example, if you subscribe 5 years, get upgrades, then unsubscribe, all major upgrades are reverted to your original purchase version? However, corel also states that membership "upgrades to the latest version of CorelDraw" also.
I don't know if I am confused, or if Corel is making it unnecessarily confusing now that there is a new version out.
bill said: I might not understand what the premium membership is either. I know one gets new features as their are created, even though they may not be released. Corel also describes it as that you will have access to the next major upgrade as long as your membership is active. For example, if you subscribe 5 years, get upgrades, then unsubscribe, all major upgrades are reverted to your original purchase version? However, corel also states that membership "upgrades to the latest version of CorelDraw" also.
My understanding is that users whose premium memberships expire revert to the last full release they downloaded. So, in the example you offer, once that five year premium membership expired, the user would revert to the most recent full version he/she downloaded during that five years.
In clearer terms: I started my premium membership when X6 was the latest full release. Had I cancelled my membership before the release of X7-full, I would have lost the premium features in my X6 installation and reverted to the original X6 release (though I would get all corrective patches and hot fixes). Now that I have downloaded X7-full, were I to cancel my membership before X8, I would revert to X7. So if you cancel, you don't necessarily revert to the full version you had when you began your premium membership. You revert to the last full version you downloaded, whatever that full version is.
Hope that made sense!