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After a long hiatus, WordPerfect has received suite-wide compatibility enhancements to work better with Microsoft Office, and an updated assortment of features. The final product is expected to ship in April of 2004.
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I use Word Perfect and 3 other people too but...
M$ killed you ages ago and now you are making a comeback. I am thinking no. Wordperfect is a better product than M$ Orifice but....... Oh well.
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|I still use WordPerfect 8 for writing. It's excellent for doing an article or a book, footnotes, endnotes, and all the trimmings. It has good WYSIWYG. I particularly like the feature "View Code," which lets you see the underlying code (italics, bold, hanging indent, etc.) so you can be sure that you've cleaned it out in the revision process.
I have MS Office on my computers too, so I can deal with people who don't use WP.
But frankly, WP is going in the wrong direction. I want a word processor, not a web processor and computer toy. They should focus more on that, IMHO. There are other programs for working with web-related writing.
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|With OpenOffice establishing itself as the MSOffice alternative, they are going to have a hard time selling this--especially when they can't beat the price.
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|It doesn't look too good for Corel squeezed between Microsoft at the high-end and Open Office at the low-end.
Oh well, they still have the lawyers niche...
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|Corel has a sweet arrangement with the Canadian government, who buys tens of thousands of licenses to Corel office suite packages in order to "discreetly" subsidize a Canadian company. Whee! Everyone wins. Except the poor suckers who actually have to use the thing, but still need Powerpoint (and therefore obtain Office XP as well) for presentations.
So, um, why not just use Office for everything? Because Corel's shiny office building in Ottawa would have a "For sale" sign on it.
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|There are a lot of Canadian adults (and students as well) that love corel, and have become very use to it. It would be foolish to say that it's crap.. ofcourse, it's merely your opinion. Corel has always given the students great discount on their software. I remember that i could buy their office suite for only $10 from my highschool, back in 2000. This does not only gets a lot of new users, but it also makes them a life-long member of the corel user family.
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|There back! The problem is: most people don't know they were away. Maybe they can make some money on the Linux side.
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|I think what's going to kill this is the price. If they want to make a comeback... they need to do it in a way that is inviting. Say... 149.99 for full version, 99.99 for upgrade... and 49.99 for students.
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|Linux support?
Hmmmm????
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|c'mon now. just the name is an ad for microsoft's suite. Word? Perfect!
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|Corel dumped Linux support a while back - and rightfully so. Basically they found out the hard way what many another comnpany has found out over the last several years - that you generally can't make money selling Linux products. The niche is too small to support a large business. Now I'm sure all the propeller heads will descend on this comment with their beanies white hot but *I* don't dictate maket trends - I merely observe and comment on them.
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|Infortunately that statement is very true. I spent tons of money licensing all of my linux software including wordperfect office, however I can recall many people complaining about spending $20 on crossover plugin or $99 on Win4Lin. I even gave up on my donationware site, as users would constantly demand support but less than a dozen would ever throw anything your way for it. Unfortunately there is very little money in "home user" Linux outside of distribution sales. I do expect to see a sizable market in corporate desktop/server software in the near future.
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|I should learn to proofread and spellcheck..
oh well.. lol
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|To be fair WordPerfect came along first, and was quite good before Corel got their grubby hands on it. I'm still using version 6.0 for DOS on my old laptop. :)
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|Snicker.... The title of this article if funny though. Vies for a comeback? Coming back from where? I used to be a sales order manager at CompUSA (ducking for cover) and noticed our percentage of sales of Wordperfect back in the day. Lemme see.... .5 of 1%? 2%? Hell, most of our high school sales tech walking the floor thought WordPerfect was made my Microsoft.
Corel should give up and start making staplers or something. They're hopelessly outclassed. And before you reply, it's just facts. If there are any members out there who hold Corel stock, then I pray for you...
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|Wordperfect would have a shot if it was OSS'ed, but then the company would go under. So in my mind it's a no win situation unless they could pull off some sort of support contract deal on corporate sales.
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|Maybe you aren't old enough to remember...
Coming back from WP5.1 (for DOS) when WordPerfect had almost all the market share, was in every office, and Microsoft Word was a pipe dream. WP bet the farm that Windows would not succeed, and did not make a Windows version, until after the barn door was open and the horses gone.
I agree with other posters that it's too little, too late. I set up my clients with Open Office. It does everything you need for free.
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