That made me LOL as well.
I was using WordPerfect in 1987 and WordStar before that. I never used Microsoft Word until I was 'gifted' a copy with my first home PC in 1981.
We used Lotus Symphony at work until Windows came along. Then WordPerfect became the accepted editor. Lotus 123 was the spreadsheet application and Paradox was the database application. I remember a lot of bemoaning the absence of an ‘integrated’ suite at the time. These applicatons lost their supremacy because of Microsoft integration.
Heh...I remember using a Wang word processor before I started using WordStar. At some point I'm sure I used MS Word at work, but at home, I used a copy of Word 97 that I bought on Ebay for a couple of years, before tossing it in favor of OpenOffice a few years ago.