[PAR35]

Wasn't it Novell that single - handedly destroyed Word Perfect? I always figured them to be Microsoft pawns.

[ShadowAce]

I wasn't using WP at the time (I only know that because I wasn't paying much attention to it), so I can't honestly say what happened.

I just always assumed it lost to the market forces and Word.

[Salo]

WordDefect was already circling the drain when Novell got it. It (WP) never adapted to the Windows desktop. Novell got some great real estate out of it, but lost a lot of money in the process. Novell dumped it off on Corel and I think Corel has since dumped on someone else.

[antiRepublicrat]

Wasn't it Novell that single - handedly destroyed Word Perfect?

WP was dying before Novell because they took too long to get a Windows version out, and when they did it sucked. There is contention over whether this was just WP Corp blowing it or whether Microsoft hid critical information about programming for Windows from WP Corp so that Word could get ahead in the Windows word processing market. Novell sued Microsoft over this (although they owned WP for less than two years), but I haven't heard of a conclusion yet.