RSSCorel Ships WordPerfect Office 11
By Nate Mook | Published April 16, 2003, 11:11 PM
Touting document portability, Corel announced it has shipped version 11 of its WordPerfect Office suite. The new suite, which was unveiled last month, includes new file sharing features and a conversion utility for migrating WordPerfect files to a variety of formats.
Flexibility is key in WordPerfect Office 11 says Corel, and the suite contains new document map and collaborative review functions. Corel has also returned to its roots for version 11, bringing back the blue interface found in WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS.
"Imagine seamlessly publishing documents created in the earliest versions of WordPerfect to a cell phone using XML or ZIM SMS Office, or publishing to the Web using HTML or PDF-all from the blue WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS interface that you started with 15 years ago," said Cindy Howard, group program manager for WordPerfect Office. "With such flexibility and future-proof performance, no other product offers an experience like this."
As Microsoft puts the finishing touches on Office 2003, Corel hopes businesses will take advantage of its more economical licensing. WordPerfect Office 11 will retail for $300 USD, with an upgrade version available for $150 USD. An educational edition priced at $100 USD will be available for students and teachers through academic resellers.
There is no reason to pay for this when open office is free
I have been using open office for a while now and am very happy with it. works great! great price $0.00! Use the money to upgrade hardware.
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|WordPerfect Office is a better product, and to some is worth the money. Such is also the truth for MS Office.
BTW; giving people jack for hard work is sadism. These open-source developers may not admit it, but it's true. We don't live in a utopia.
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|I'm a long-time WordPerfect user, because it's very good for the kind of writing I do. Among other things, I really like the View Code feature.
But I'm still using WordPerfect 8 (SP7). It works fine provided that you refrain from installing Netscape and rename the windows messaging file before running the installation. Then rename it back again.
I'm not sure that I want to pay for WP11. None of the recent updates of MS Office or WP have really done anything useful for writers.
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|I turn to stable second-parties, such as WP to avoid the outrageous pricing strategy inplace with MS products.
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|she's the only one i can think of who actually complains about them switching away from the blue interface, and as simple as it is im sure it wasnt much of a miracle to port the document theme to xml.
:P priced to flop, i say...
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