HP drops Microsoft for rival Corel

Financial Times ^ | August 27, 2002 | Scott Morrison and Paul Abrahams

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Microsoft, the world's biggest software group, on Monday suffered a blow to its most important business, when Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest personal computer company, selected a rival software package for its consumer PCs.

The move follows a decision last week by Dell Computer, the number two PC maker, to replace Microsoft software. Both companies said they would offer WordPerfect productivity software from Corel of Canada instead of Microsoft's Works, a scaled-down version of its top-selling Office software.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

What they don't mention is the WordPerfect Office runs on Windows, Linux and UNIX. Quite well, actually.

[ShadowAce]

Posted here

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Continuation of yesterday's MS discussion?

[dyed_in_the_wool]

*doh*
AM, please pull.
Thanks.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Thought I'd try to get in a bump for the TRS-80 before the tread gets pulled...

[Conan the Librarian]

Only problem with Word-Imperfect......it sucks. Quatro pro is ok...but the wordprosessor sucks.

[Conan the Librarian]

as does my spelling....Oh for a spell checker!

[discostu]

Works is such a POS. I hate anything that puts up it's own desktop on top of my real desktop. That's why I uninstalled Star Office in less time than it took to download it in the first place.

I started walking away from WordPerfect when they relased WP6 (trying to beat MS by making a more bloated app that's slower and crashes more, brilliant plan), then they screwed up AMIPro (my favorite word processor, because it was the only one I could actually do columns in... actually I STILL can't do columns, but I don't do a newsletter anymore so it doesn't matter) with the WordPro merger and that was it (not sure if I was more pissed that the giant killer shot their own foot, or that they screwed up my favorite word processor). When this news started cruising around I was actually shocked to find out WP was still around, guess they ran off to lick their wounds in the non-Windows world.

Of course we all know the answer from MS will be to offer Office at next to nothing for bundled sale. This'll be fun, haven't seen a real fight on the application side since... well since they ruined AMIPro actually.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

>>AMIPro

Best word processor I ever worked with.
In fact, I often wonder why Lotus doesn't resurrect it and port it to Linux. It was so light and easy to use. Never seen anything like it.

[discostu]

The death of AMIPro was the worst part of the move to 32 bit. It didn't work well under Windows95 (couldn't access the online help anymore, and they actually had helpful help), and died entirely under 98. Best app of the 16 bit era though. If they'd have ported AMIPro over to Linux I'd be a dual booter just for that.