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?"

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WordPerfect

[TheRealFixer]

My HP laptop came with WordPerfect2000. Can't stand it. Akward to use, lacks in features. WordPerfect was cool back in version 5.1. Of course, it was just about the ONLY viable word processor back in 5.1.

The first thing I did was uninstall it and install OpenOffice 1.0.1.

Re:No news here

[ites]

Higher prices caused by piracy...

I have to take issue with this. Piracy does not cause high prices. Monopoly control of the market causes high prices. Microsoft has carefully seeded the globe with Windows and Office and has even accepted piracy as one of the many ways its culture gets distributed and engrained.
Like any business, Microsoft raise their prices when they think they can.
Most users are used to getting fat packets of software for very little. What is happening now is that (a) there are more choices because Microsoft has not been able to extend its products infinitely, and (b) Microsoft has started to tighten the noose around its customers.
Frankly, having learnt one WP or spreadhseet or presentation tool, anyone with modest smarts can learn another.