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Whither Novell?
Blog What's depressing is that I seem to have been making the same or similar comments every few years about Novell, ever since the company went bonkers buying Unix, WordPerfect and a whole host of other bits and pieces as it looked to replace its...
[December 15, 2009, 11:49]
At Last: Maintenance Free Computing Easy, Consistent, Stable
White Papers An operating system, or "OS", is the software that enables applications (eg: Photoshop, WordPerfect, Opera, Bloomberg Terminal, e-mail programs, etc.to run. A software option now available on many new computers eliminates the hassles and obstacles...
[December 11, 2009, 23:00]
Linux useless for home PC
Talkback Unix failed for the same reason & of course £5000 for WordPerfect etc Until there is 'click & load' ordinary people wont us it. M$ has it right, if you want to upgrade or install a new program it's just one click.
[November 30, 2009, 8:31]
WordPerfect market failure
Talkback I don't think Corel owned WordPerfect when the MS GUI was introduced and Word became the number 1 word processor. Every other word processor was effectively killed off by Word's early start in Windows.
[November 26, 2009, 16:51]
Ten failures that went down in IT history
Comment In fact, what I should actually cite here is Corel, the maker of WordPerfect, rather than the software itself. WordPerfect WordPerfect was an outstanding word processing tool. Corel, however, was not outstanding in its ability to market and sell...
[November 20, 2009, 11:42]
WordPerfect Spotlight & QuickLook Plug-ins
Downloads WP Spotlight & QuickLook Plug-ins 3.0 for Mac OS X from version 10.6 Snow Leopard enables Spotlight search and QuickLook thumbnails and previews for files created by WordPerfect on any platform from version 1 to version 11.
[October 11, 2009, 4:02]
Nuance PDF Converter Professional 6 review
Reviews It can convert or create PDF files to or from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and XPS or Corel WordPerfect. Installation & interface Installation was smooth on our Windows Vista test system, although we did have to shut down Office 2007.
[August 27, 2009, 15:06]
That ain't roses ya'll smelling!
Talkback WordPerfect for instance has a $900 package used by lawyers all across the country that is essentially thousands of boilerplate templates for legal documents. I read the patent. Not only is the judge in the case an idiot, the patent office examiner...
[August 18, 2009, 9:33]
RepliGo Professional for BlackBerry Storm/Tour (3 Months)
Downloads With RepliGoProfessional, email attachments such as PDF, Microsoft Office, WordPerfect,OpenOffice, faxes and photos can be viewed with a quality that rivalsa desktop computer. RepliGo Professional 3.0 for BlackBerryTurn your BlackBerry into a...
[July 14, 2009, 8:00]
RepliGo Professional for BlackBerry Storm/Tour (1 Year)
Downloads With RepliGoProfessional, email attachments such as PDF, Microsoft Office, WordPerfect,OpenOffice, faxes and photos can be viewed with a quality that rivalsa desktop computer. RepliGo Professional 3.0 for BlackBerryTurn your BlackBerry into a...
[July 14, 2009, 8:00]
Word 2007 - kindergarden edition
Member Review If you are familiar with earlier versions of Word, WordPro, WordPerfect etc.forget everything you have learnt over the last 20 years. The UI on Word 2007 looks like something designed for kindergarden children.
[June 1, 2009, 17:59]
Wiki-Wage!
Blog This particular wiki has a “feature” that is supposed to mimic an rtf editor like Wordpad or WordPerfect 11 (and countless other programs) in compatibility mode. I have been enraged by a piece of software that should have never been released and it...
[February 25, 2009, 2:35]
To Err, Is Human
Blog Comment WordPerfect and Wordstar both were riddled with idiotic command strings to do simple to arcane things. Getting MSDN free for 2 years is a pretty good inducement to get you to be happy about Microsoft.
[January 2, 2009, 7:50]
To Err, Is Human
Blog Comment I was never a WordPerfect guy, I always found the command structure really baffling, like Alt-Shift-4 would embolded a word, but that if it was selected and it was a Sunday morning. Roger, The reason I mentioned keeping an old XP rig around, is...
[December 31, 2008, 11:12]
To Err, Is Human
Blog Comment I point to the very beginning, when Microsoft banished WordPerfect as the dominate word processor. You could put Word into a mode that allowed the dot commands learned in WordPerfect to operate in Word.
[December 31, 2008, 7:30]
User Visasters
Blog I haven't used MS Office since 2000 and I've been very happy with WordPerfect, OpenOffice or gedit since then. This blog entry admittedly has little direct relationship to home servers but it does have a relationship to the “user experience” as the...
[December 14, 2008, 13:57]
EZ Backup WordPerfect Basic
Downloads EZ Backup WordPerfect Basic makes it easy to backup your WordPerfect, Quattro Pro and Presentation files to any local, network or removable drive. The application creates a self-restoring backup archive which includes a wizard interface that will...
[October 31, 2008, 12:10]
Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog Comment Years back Microsoft almost totally hijacked the word processing market away from Word Perfect by offering within Word a mode that emulated the look and feel of WordPerfect. This emulation was expanded to the extent that most of the emulated "dot...
[October 22, 2008, 8:44]
Diff Doc Professional
Downloads Use it to compare Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint, RTF, PDF, and Wordperfect. Diff Doc is a document comparison utility. Regardless of the editor you are using, simply load the original and modified files, press the Refresh button (or F5), and the...
[October 13, 2008, 11:47]
Mars Notebook
Downloads You can import MS Word, HTML, text, unicode text, Works, WordPerfect, Windows Write, RTF files into your document. This is the very useful tree-styled notebook. You can use it every day as your assistant in your work and life.
[August 20, 2008, 8:00]
