Why has the opening of a Pagemaker file into InDesign CC been removed?

We receive many publications that have been produced by Pagemaker. We open and convert to InDesign for our publishing input. InDesign CC has removed this feature which now means we will have to always keep InDesign 6 installed on our system.

Don't expect an official Adobe "answer" to this question. This is my opinion.
Anyone who has observed the graphic arts field the last decade or so has seen this coming. According to Wikipedia, "The last major release of PageMaker was 7.0 in 2001, after which the product was seen as "languishing on life support". Adobe ceased all development of PageMaker in 2004 and "strongly encouraged" users to migrate to InDesign, initially via special "InDesign PageMaker Edition" and "PageMaker Plug-in" versions that added PageMaker's data merge, bullet and numbering features to InDesign, and provided PageMaker-oriented help topics, complimentary Myriad Pro fonts and templates. From 2005 these features were bundled into InDesign CS2, which was offered at half-price to existing PageMaker customers."
With the arrival of InDesign CC, the entire application has to be re-written for 64 bit and, on the Mac, using a different set of system calls. The number of people who still use Pagemaker are minuscule, and it wasn't worth it to port the feature over. Since InDesign CS6 still supports importing Pagemaker files there is a route for the tiny number of people who need to feature.
I'm pretty sure that this will not change in the future so you should get used to it.

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I could re-set one workstation wtih XP2, Office XP and InDesign CS2 purely to be able to convert pmds. Again, nuisance and ties up a licence on a little-used machine.
I could bite the bullet and move everyone over to InDesign CS3 - will I definitely be able to open pmds from there?
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