Holy hell! You mean there's two of you??
I actually like WP — it's what I use to make my brochures and my [amateur] writing.
I think Corel could wipe the floor with MicroSoft if they took a little bit of a gamble and rewrote it in Ada w/ formal verification: this would make it extremely portable and ensure it free of errors. (Imagine being able to say our program cannot cause your computer to crash, and no bad input will cause the program to crash.
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