Given that the United States Department of Justice and other US and Canadian government agencies (and the few remaining true diehard WordPerfect fans) have been helping keep Corel afloat, MS buying in is not necessarily a bad thing. Consider the facts; the former CEO has been investigated by the Toronto SEC as well as other former execs, near constant downsizing, reduced tech support for WordPerfect, negative press speculation, etc.... Some cashflow and a fresh CEO with some attitude may relight some fires in Corel's Ottawa kitchens.
Ever since Corel bought the applications suite from Novell in the early 90's - things have been hard. CorelDraw is a good product, but you need more. Corel Linux bundled with the WordPerfect suite, CorelDraw suite and some good dev tools in an affordable mega-distro would be nice. If this can't be done, bring back WP5.1 -raw, plain, quick, and efficient. Now where is that damm spell check command?
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Given that the United States Department of Justice and other US and Canadian government agencies (and the few remaining true diehard WordPerfect fans) have been helping keep Corel afloat, MS buying in is not necessarily a bad thing. Consider the facts; the former CEO has been investigated by the Toronto SEC as well as other former execs, near constant downsizing, reduced tech support for WordPerfect, negative press speculation, etc.... Some cashflow and a fresh CEO with some attitude may relight some fires in Corel's Ottawa kitchens. Ever since Corel bought the applications suite from Novell in the early 90's - things have been hard. CorelDraw is a good product, but you need more. Corel Linux bundled with the WordPerfect suite, CorelDraw suite and some good dev tools in an affordable mega-distro would be nice. If this can't be done, bring back WP5.1 -raw, plain, quick, and efficient. Now where is that damm spell check command?