I still have a Windows 98 VM on an old laptop. On the desktop, there’s a folder: C:\MGX\DESIGN\ .

I draw a single circle. Perfect. No handles. No cloud sync. No AI asking if I want to generate a "vector style."

Just me, a mouse, and the last Bézier curve.

I opened Designer. The file loaded instantly. I clicked the cowcatcher—a polygon I’d drawn as a single polyline. Ctrl+click. Drag. Done. The bell? I drew a half-ellipse, rotated it 18 degrees, and used .

It will open tomorrow. It will open in ten years.

"Micrografx," I said. "It doesn't think it's an artist. It thinks it's a drafting table."