Most of the collections omit the Paradox database manager. The primary applications are WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Presentations. The suite is available in five editions: Standard, Professional, Legal, Home & Student, and Academic. While WordPerfect had more than 50% of the worldwide word-processing market in 1995, by 2000 Word had up to 95% it was so dominant that WordPerfect executives admitted that their software needed to be compatible with Word documents to survive." Word also benefited from being included in an integrated office suite package much sooner than WordPerfect. A Windows version of WordPerfect was not introduced until nearly two years after Windows 3.0, and was met with poor reviews. Wikipedia describes it this way: "While WordPerfect dominated the DOS market, Microsoft shifted its attention toward a Windows version of Word after Windows 3.0 was introduced, Word's market share began to grow at an extraordinary rate. That's all ancient history now, but it's worth considering how we got to where we are. The advent of Windows 3 in 1990 ended Microsof's participation with IBM in developing OS/2 and WordPerfect had only DOS and OS/2 versions.īy the time the company fielded a workable Windows version, Microsoft had largely captured the word processor market with Word. Misdirection (a polite word for "lies") by Microsoft led WordPerfect developers in the wrong direction. WordPerfect was far superior to anything on the market back then and remained so until the mid 1990s. I had looked at WordStar and other word processors for DOS and found them all to be horrid when compared to Word-11, so I didn't expect much from WordPerfect. "You do it." So we had some Zenith (IBM compatible) computers and a man stopped at the office one day with an application he wanted to show me: WordPerfect 2.2, a word processor that he said was better than WordStar. I had convinced the owner of the business that we should take a look at desktop computers. When WordPerfect first came to market in 1982, I had been using a word processor called Word-11 via a terminal on a DEC PDP-11 computer running RSTS/E. The WordPerfect Office Suite was assembled by Borland and acquired by Corel in 1996. WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Paradox were once all standalone applications. For the past 23 years, Corel has been improving the the WordPerfect Office suite and the current version is X9, the 19th release.
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