Isn’t NOvell now nothing but a front for a lawsuit happy kabal of shysters?
Word Perfect was great, but the thing was harder to use and even harder to train someone to use.
I took naturally to Word Perfect because I was trained in the era of IBM Selectric Keyboarding but for the users who never typed, MS Word was incredible. Even they could type.
In the end, Word won due to its simplicity and not because it was more capable.
Word sucked from the beginning and still sucks. I am stuck with it but I hate it (and Office 2010) with a personal passion.
WordPerfect WAS better. MUCH MUCH better.
I don’t know what that says about the merits of the case, but it is true.
Is this the same suit? So it took almost ten years after the fact to bring the suit, and another seven to get it to trial? And who says the American legal system is @*$#ed up.
It made MS Word look positively third rate.
With WordPerfect, I could do absolutely everything, not so with Word.
Even now, I look to WP even though the newer versions aren't up to earlier WP versions to do the same work that it takes Word, and two or three MS programs need.
I'd love to testify in this case. Microsoft works to punish superior competitors, like Novell and force Windows' customers into using MS' inferior products!
Talk about an old lawsuit. Windows 95 was no great shakes either... Windows 98 was a lot better.
I still use Word Perfect version 10 (2002) on my Windows 7 machine.
WordPerfect 8 can be convinced to run fairly well on Vista. I have given up trying to get it to run on Windows 7.
I like Word Pad.
The first word processing programs I saw/useed were Electric Pencil (Michael Shrayer) and Scripsit from Tandy R/S.