That's all ancient history now, but it's worth considering how we got to where we are. The advent of Windows 3 in 1990 ended Microsof's participation with IBM in developing OS/2 and WordPerfect had only DOS and OS/2 versions.īy the time the company fielded a workable Windows version, Microsoft had largely captured the word processor market with Word. Misdirection (a polite word for 'lies') by Microsoft led WordPerfect developers in the wrong direction. WordPerfect was far superior to anything on the market back then and remained so until the mid 1990s. I had looked at WordStar and other word processors for DOS and found them all to be horrid when compared to Word-11, so I didn't expect much from WordPerfect.

'You do it.' So we had some Zenith (IBM compatible) computers and a man stopped at the office one day with an application he wanted to show me: WordPerfect 2.2, a word processor that he said was better than WordStar. I had convinced the owner of the business that we should take a look at desktop computers.

When WordPerfect first came to market in 1982, I had been using a word processor called Word-11 via a terminal on a DEC PDP-11 computer running RSTS/E. The WordPerfect Office Suite was assembled by Borland and acquired by Corel in 1996. WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Paradox were once all standalone applications. For the past 23 years, Corel has been improving the the WordPerfect Office suite and the current version is X9, the 19th release.

Quattro pro x9