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Word won due to its simplicity and not because it was more capable.

The easiest to use were word processing software by Lotus.
AmiPro to start and then Word Pro.In both they ware so easy to use. Truly the most intuitive. Word was a poorly written copy of AmiPro. In AmiPro, most tasks could happen with right click menu's, and well designed main menu's. Word Pro extended those functionalities.

MS Word was made part of Office and MS more or less bribed or forced computer builders to include it in new computers.

It is a shame Word Pro and AmiPro before it lost the give away battle. The were FAR superior products. Everything was more natural when creating or formatting a document.

18 posted on 11/21/2011 9:41:07 PM PST by JSteff ((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))

I used them too, even used gold star, didn’t like any of them because they weren’t working with many of the printers.

HP and Word Perfect really took off with the introduction of early laser printers, killed all others because WP supported pcl natively.

Word blew AmiPro out of the water when it came to printing envelopes. That’s where Word won me over.

21 posted on 11/21/2011 10:52:30 PM PST by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)