Say that Microsoft retired its Whiteboard app, because 16 October has passed

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     <h2>Beside Microsoft Whiteboard</h2>
-    <p>Microsoft <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps">retires its Whiteboard app on 16 October 2026</a>. SQLBI Whiteboard is built for the same setting, a projector and a pen, and keeps each board in a local file. It opens the <a href="export-microsoft-whiteboard.html"><code>.zip</code> that Microsoft Whiteboard exports</a>, with the board's ink, pictures, notes, shapes, and text.</p>
+    <p>Microsoft <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps">retired its Whiteboard app on 16 October 2026</a>. SQLBI Whiteboard is built for the same setting, a projector and a pen, and keeps each board in a local file. It opens the <a href="export-microsoft-whiteboard.html"><code>.zip</code> that Microsoft Whiteboard exports</a>, with the board's ink, pictures, notes, shapes, and text.</p>
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     <h1>Export your boards from Microsoft Whiteboard</h1>
-    <p class="lede">Microsoft <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps">retires its Whiteboard app on 16 October 2026</a>. Export each board as a ZIP before then, and open the ZIP in SQLBI Whiteboard to keep the board as a file on your PC.</p>
+    <p class="lede">Microsoft <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps">retired its Whiteboard app on 16 October 2026</a>. A board exported as a ZIP before then opens in SQLBI Whiteboard as a file on your PC.</p>
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-    <h2>What changes on 16 October</h2>
-    <p>The standalone Microsoft Whiteboard apps for Windows, iOS, and Android retire on 16 October 2026.</p>
+    <h2>What changed on 16 October</h2>
+    <p>The standalone Microsoft Whiteboard apps for Windows, iOS, and Android retired on 16 October 2026.</p>
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-      <li>With a personal Microsoft account, the app has shown this notice since 25 September: “you will no longer be able to create or edit whiteboards. Please export any whiteboards you’d like to keep before October 16, 2026, after which they will be permanently deleted.” Installed apps then display “a retirement experience instead of opening the Whiteboard gallery or whiteboard content”, <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps">according to Microsoft</a>. Export your boards before 16 October.</li>
-      <li>With a work or school account, boards stored in OneDrive stay available in Whiteboard in Teams and on the web. Boards still stored in Azure are deleted on 16 October.</li>
+      <li>With a personal Microsoft account, the app showed this notice from 25 September: “you will no longer be able to create or edit whiteboards. Please export any whiteboards you’d like to keep before October 16, 2026, after which they will be permanently deleted.” Installed apps now display “a retirement experience instead of opening the Whiteboard gallery or whiteboard content”, <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps">according to Microsoft</a>.</li>
+      <li>With a work or school account, boards stored in OneDrive stay available in Whiteboard in Teams and on the web. Boards still stored in Azure were deleted on 16 October.</li>
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     <h2 id="export">Export a board as a ZIP</h2>
-    <p>Open the board in the Microsoft Whiteboard app for Windows, then:</p>
+    <p>Until 16 October 2026 the Windows app exported a board this way. Open the board in the app, then:</p>
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-    <p>Repeat the steps for each board, because each ZIP holds one board. <span class="ui">Image</span> and <span class="ui">PDF</span> save a picture of the board, without the separate strokes, notes, and text. The ZIP opens in SQLBI Whiteboard at any time, including after 16 October, so you can export your boards now and bring them across later.</p>
+    <p>Repeat the steps for each board, because each ZIP holds one board. <span class="ui">Image</span> and <span class="ui">PDF</span> save a picture of the board, without the separate strokes, notes, and text. The ZIP opens in SQLBI Whiteboard at any time.</p>
 
     <h2 id="open">Open it in SQLBI Whiteboard</h2>
     <p><a href="index.html#get">Install SQLBI Whiteboard</a>, or run <code>winget install SQLBI.Whiteboard</code>. Use <span class="ui">File → Open</span> on the ZIP to create a new board from it, and <span class="ui">Save</span> to keep it as a <code>.wboard</code> file. <span class="ui">File → Import</span>, or dropping the ZIP on a board, adds it below the current content.</p>

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-      <p class="notice"><strong>Leaving Microsoft Whiteboard?</strong> Export each board as a ZIP before 16 October 2026 and open it here, with its ink, notes, shapes, and text. <a href="export-microsoft-whiteboard.html">How to export a board</a></p>
+      <p class="notice"><strong>Exported a board from Microsoft Whiteboard?</strong> Open the ZIP here, with its ink, notes, shapes, and text. <a href="export-microsoft-whiteboard.html">How to open an exported board</a></p>
 
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-      <figcaption class="launch-caption">Microsoft <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps">retires its Whiteboard app on 16 October 2026</a>.<br>This is what we drew instead.</figcaption>
+           alt="Microsoft retired its Whiteboard app on 16 October 2026. SQLBI Whiteboard, shown in its real window: a captured Power BI matrix with highlighter marks, a DAX measure, and red pen annotations.">
+      <figcaption class="launch-caption">Microsoft <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps">retired its Whiteboard app on 16 October 2026</a>.<br>This is what we drew instead.</figcaption>
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-          <span class="desc">Export each board as a ZIP before 16 October 2026 and open it as a board here.</span>
+          <span class="desc">Open a board exported from Microsoft Whiteboard as a ZIP, with its ink, notes, shapes, and text.</span>
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