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Bad news: Not this month, sorry.
Good news: The longer it takes the more new features, improvements, and fixes will be included. Exciting times ahead.

Would be curious to see what their actual promise was in the past as generally companies do not say anything rock solid for this very reason.
There is a big difference between sketching and page layout. The first thing again is the size of the screen, being able to work 1:1 is huge. I am sure they can make it work on an iPad, I just question why. I get photo editing and even vector creation, those are generally artistic applications. Publisher is page layout, not as glamorous as the other 2 but equally important and probably needs more focus on what you are doing with text and images. All of these would be small with a lot of zooming in and out for corrections. I would be happy to be proved wrong, but as one who works with Indesign day in and day out I would not want to work on a screen smaller then the 27" 5K screen I have now. 

Firetruck art from Finland. Most of this is Designer and vector tools but some brushes are pixel.

Yeah, we’re very interested in hearing feedback on the reg / content streaming stuff.
  A few comments:   Signing in is purely to give the ability to stream content from the store directly into your apps. If you decide not to sign in it will have no other impact at all - you will be able to use the apps as usual. All store content will continue to be available to download and install in the old way if you would prefer for whatever reason not to sign in to get it. Once you are signed and install your content that will be available to you in future whether or not you are connected to the internet. The only thing is if you physically decide to sign out of the app you will then lose access to that store content. You can get it back at anytime by signing in again (or alternatively installing the old way as per point 2.)  This will not be the case in the next beta - if you sign out you will be able to choose to keep your store content installed. We are absolutely not collecting any usage data or anything else while you are signed in.   The issue with allowing your store content to still be available if you sign out of the app is that it could be open to abuse (i.e. credentials for an account which has purchased all content could be passed around for 1,000s of people to sign in, install and then immediately sign out of). Of course this concern isn’t directed at you guys, but something we need to think about   But yes we are very interested in your feedback on all of this and are definitely listening.

I have got hyphenation working in Publisher in Finnish. But Spellcheck is problem..

There still some bugs in masking in Windows Publisher photo persona. Not same problem it is release version. I try mask my friend in photo and background off but it is not working perfect and some pixels from background are still in photo. And this is 422 version of beta.