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HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect
nexex points to this Financial Times article, which says that HP has dropped Microsoft Word from the software lineup in the personal computers it sells to customers. From the article: "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." Nexex writes:"I think it should be noted, MS Works does include the full version of Word."
This has got to be the biggest oxymoron of the century!
Hahah yeah Microsoft is the only company in the world that tries to lock people in with propreitary formats!! Haha, have another bong hit!
> buy are overpriced non-OS software product...
Who are you to judge who is brilliant or not?
I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.
DAMN! So I won't be able go to my Office(r) to do some work (when I'm old enough to get a job :S)?
/me sits in his Office(r) looking out of the Windows(r).
Do they still include Notepad? Because you know that's the only reason I buy Windows PCs. Everyone used to have Notepad but then they switched to the Boston stapler, and they were married, and if they take my Notepad away again I'll... I'll... OK...
WordPerfect was MS Word's rival in DOS times.
A lot of people worked with it.
So maybe your mom or grandmother still have copy of it on floppy ;)
slashdot needs to update thier corel logo to the urinal/toilet seat one corel went with
Stole users you say comrade? What a despicable act of capitalism.
In a Communist country, everyone would just keep using Wordstar.
In a Communist country, everyone would just keep using Wordstar.
Wordstar! Bah! It was only with extreme reluctance that I recently upgraded from my IBM Seletric to Electric Pencil.