That's why Microsoft has been so keen to keep the inner workings of its file formats secret, so that upstarts like Corel WordPerfect or IBM's (NYSE: IBM) Lotus Office would never get the details quite right.
Upstarts? WordPerfect? Is this guy just out of high school?
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.
WordPerfect was king of the hill a long time ago, but that was a long time ago. These days WP is in the “is that still around” pile along with most of the surviving hair metal bands.
LOL Microsoft did it's share of 'free loading' software to it's computer sale. Also a trailer on spreadsheets and browsers.
Apparently so. I was sorely disappointed when Word Perfect fell to the MS miasma of Word dominance. WP was/is so technically superior (especially for writing technical documents) that it isn’t funny. I get so pi$$ed when using different portions of the MS suite when coming to find that their cross compatibility sucks in more than I’d care to mention instances. Word is really an inferior product made for the average masses.......