WordPerfect Back From the Wilderness

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WordPerfect Back From the Wilderness

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 1, 2004 @12:57PM from the but-it's-a-whole-new-wilderness dept.

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?"

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70s called by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-01 12:58 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
1. Re:70s called by Rick+Zeman · 2004-03-01 13:07 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  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.
  
  Hey, at least it came with a keyboard template. I'm still looking for my vi template!
2. Re:70s called by Endive4Ever · 2004-03-01 13:09 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That would be the 80's calling.
  
  In the 70's the choice was Electric Pencil, loaded off a cassette tape, or the Selectric.
  
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Old WP joke by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-01 12:59 · Score: 5, Funny

How can recognize a drowning WP user?

He's yelling F3! F3!
In other news by HappyCitizen · 2004-03-01 13:00 · Score: 5, Funny

New Commodore 64 comes out, with 4.8 Ghz proccesser.

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1. Re:In other news by El_Ge_Ex · 2004-03-01 14:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  sssshhhh..... you'll wake up the Amiga people.
Drunk Floozies by ScottGant · 2004-03-01 13:00 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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WordPerfect 12? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-01 13:01 · Score: 5, Funny

You'd of thought they would have perfected it by now.
Marketing by lewko · 2004-03-01 13:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Wordperfect $35
Extra modules $15
No #@$%#$*& paperclip.... Priceless

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Real slow sales by Tx · 2004-03-01 13:06 · Score: 5, Funny

From the news.com article:

"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 ...

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Re:Compete head to head in Windows? by Speed+Racer · 2004-03-01 13:19 · Score: 5, Funny

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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Re:Why? 'Cause it ain't! by Waffle+Iron · 2004-03-01 14:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Since that post probably took 5 minutes to write, it has a value of $29.17. It was very generous to donate it to this discussion. Thanks.