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WordPerfect Back From the Wilderness
Man With Broom writes "Just when you thought they were riding off into the sunset, they come back into town and start hanging around the mayor's oldest girl... WordPerfect 12 was described today on news.com, with Corel claiming compatibility for the small business user. But can they withstand the juggernaut? And what of OpenOffice?"
They wanna know where they can buy those funky plastic sheets you put over the keyboard to remind you what Ctrl_Shift_Alt_F5 means in WordPerfect.
How can recognize a drowning WP user?
He's yelling F3! F3!
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Is it me or do some of these applications seem like cheap, drunk floozies being passed around for different people to dance with at a party?
How many different owners did Painter go through? And Wordperfect? And Poser? And Bryce?
Someone needs to marry these apps and make them settle down.
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
You'd of thought they would have perfected it by now.
here
Wordperfect $35
Extra modules $15
No #@$%#$*& paperclip.... Priceless
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From the news.com article:
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"We're not in the double digits yet for upselling people to the full suite, but we are making progress," he said.
I think they've got some work to do
Oh no... it's the future.
"We're not in the double digits yet for upselling people to the full suite, but we are making progress," he said.
not in double digits? that maxes out at 9
Gotta love a company who still "implements Comparable" with a single number comparison instead of requiring 25 lines of code like other *cough* MS *cough* companies.
You're thinking of "Caldera". Don't worry, they're easy to get mixed up. They both begin with the letter C, and they both sold failed Linux distributions.
It is also possible you're thinking of Canopy, who owns Caldera and also begins with the letter C.
Just repeat after me: C is for Cookie. That is good enough for me.
WordStar
You can't cage WordPerfect, man. It's gotta be free.
Well I hope they can get a tenth person to upgrade, I'll bet they need the money...
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Answer;
1. Find someone who wants to buy WP.
2. 'Upgrade' from Openoffice to WP for $150.
3. Sell WP to the stooge in (1) for $200.
4. Profit (to the tune of $50).
This assumes that Corel sees Openoffice as a competing product. They might quibble about whether its 'competing' or whether its 'a product'.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
It's not to late for a comeback
Seriously though...there was NO Clippy
It ran a little debian if you didn't have decent hardware
Did you just use Debian as an adjective?
I suppose it's a good thing it never ran a little gentoo or we'd still be waiting for it to compile.
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What's REALLY scary is those WP 5.1 cultists who won't go away. Truely frightening.
"Word Perfect never left the confines of my heart. I love that software dearly."
I think you have emotional problems. It's SOFTWARE. Let it go man.
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You might want to look into it.
KFG
I have always said that if Word continued on its development path by 2015 or 2020 at the latest it will have the functionality that WordPerfect had in 1990.
I want my WordStar back.. :)
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Don't blaspheme. Microsoft knows what you need better than you.
The link is: news://alt.religion.adm3a
alt.RELIGION.OldComputerTerminal?
Do a lot of people post to that newsgroup? Do they worship the landfill god?
The real reason WP is better than Word can be summed up in two words No Clippy.
There's no shame in being a pariah. -Marge Simpson
Oh, it exists alright - locked in a dimension unseen in eternal combat with the Emacs template.
The world finally ends when a winner emerges. But for about ten minutes beforehand you will receive full enlightenment into the trickest workings of the winning editors avatar/template, so really it's a wash.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
My mother loved Word Perfecct and was an absolute guru at it. Then her work forced her to change to Word.
The result? Support calls to me.
Problem is, she sucks at describing problems. I get phone calls that start with "How do I do Control-Alt-P in Word?"