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Worm’s life
The battle between WordPerfect and MS Word is set out (from an MS-insider's point of view) in
'Let's talk about Word'. Fascinating.
I was one of those old PC magazine reviewers mentioned in this piece and was a master user of WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. In the early days of Windows 3.0/3.1, Ami Pro (especially v.3.0) was a much better product that Word. But Lotus bought Ami Pro and rewrote it from scratch into a slow dog called WordPro (I think). WordPerfect still couldn't do a decent WYSIWYG interface by v.6.0, and was even buggier than Word.
No wonder Word prevailed.
'Let's talk about Word'. Fascinating.
I was one of those old PC magazine reviewers mentioned in this piece and was a master user of WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. In the early days of Windows 3.0/3.1, Ami Pro (especially v.3.0) was a much better product that Word. But Lotus bought Ami Pro and rewrote it from scratch into a slow dog called WordPro (I think). WordPerfect still couldn't do a decent WYSIWYG interface by v.6.0, and was even buggier than Word.
No wonder Word prevailed.
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