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Gateway To Use Corel Over MS For Office Suite
djellusion writes "Dealing yet another blow to Microsoft, Gateway has announced that it will be using Corels Wordperfect office suite instead of Microsoft Office. I can only see this as a good thing because friendly competition creates drive for better(less clippy) products. Can I order my system with no office suite please?"
In another blow to Microsoft, a fourth computer maker plans to bundle Corel's WordPerfect Office with its low-end consumer machines.
Gateway is planning to include WordPerfect 10 and Quattro Pro 10 on its 300s desktops in North America.
It's not my word, although I'm not sure where it was first used. Obviously, it's a reference to the facehuggers in Alien The canonical piece of facehuggerware is, and pretty much always has been, RealPlayer.
God, I hate them so much.
Well, this is somewhat true. However, I've had many an occasion when I tried to open up a word document with OpenOffice, and it mangled all the graphics. I then had to spend a long time fixing hte document so it looks right in OO. Text always converts fine for me, but when you're involved in a research group where M$ word documents with graphics are being exchanged regularly, OpenOffice just doesn't cut it. Until they get it to where it flawlessly converts word files, I don't think it will be feasable for people in a situation like mine. This is my last hurdle to completely freeing myself of Microsoft products forever.
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As I said above, Word can show someformatting but not everything(fonts, language, line spacing etc) like reveal codes can. In WordPerfect you can also search and replace codes like fonts.
Today's vices may be tomorrow's virtues.
It is about time WP starts pushing back crappy office
Yes, since it's been nearly a decade since Word pushed out crappy WP.
I agree that MS has gotten a lot of it's influence through shady dealings (undocumented calls, blackmail via OS monopoly, etc) but you also have to go back and look at the early days of GUI Word Processors. WordPerfect was utter shit. It lost the market share because they didn't transition from DOS-based word processing to WYSIWYG GUI word processing fast enough. And when they finally did make the transition they released a crappy product that was full of bugs and missing features.
If you want a real competitor for Word, take a look at Ami Pro. The only reason I can see for it's failure is the miserable marketing out of Lotus (and later IBM). It had most of the features before Word did, it was faster, slimmer, and worked great. Those ubiquitous button bars that are in GUI apps nowadays? Came from Ami Pro. I'm sure it had some technical shortcomings, but I don't know what they were offhand.