WordPerfect Office 12: A First Look
Talkback I was "brought up" on WordPerfect and certainly found it the best word processor available. As far as I was concerned WP 6.1 (DOS) was the best! More recent editions, WP 8 have been modeled too much on M'soft's Word, rather than retaining its own...
[April 15, 2004, 16:11]
Progress Without Parallel
Talkback This is certainly true of the "classics", like Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect for DOS. A lot of the old DOS apps were written in 16-bit, real-mode assembley code. I wonder whether this really is the answer, though.
[June 20, 2006, 15:13]
Alternatives To Microsoft Office
Talkback For years she used WordPerfect 4.5 for DOS! Then we went to WordPerfect 7.0 (Windows) and that went seemlessly. Despite there being a filter, she lost several of her WordPerfect docs, and never seemed quite happy about the switch.
[July 2, 2004, 16:34]
Great Office Suite Improves A Little On WPO12.
Member Review I'm a long-time user (since the old MS-DOS days), and this is probably the best WordPerfect yet. As my subject line intimates, WPO X3 is a little bit better than WPO12. Some of the quirky behaviors in WP12 have been fixed, and the whole suite seems...
[January 20, 2006, 7:49]
HP LaserJet 4V/4MV Printer Driver For DOS Applications
Downloads These drivers support AutoCAD12, Harvard Graphics 3.0, Lotus 1-2-3 releases 2.3/2.4 and 3.1/3.4, and WordPerfect 5.1/6.0. Download and install the LaserJet printer drivers for DOS applications.
[December 12, 1998, 6:53]
Windows Form Creation And High-Speed Network Printing
White Papers Direct Marketing Resources (DMR) is a direct mail and marketing company that has discovered a way to use common PC software packages such as WordPerfect and FoxPro to create and print their customer applications on their own high-speed laser printer.
[February 8, 2005, 23:00]
Microsoft Sued Over Use Of 'Forefront' Name
Talkback WordPerfect Office Suite. Digital Research DR-DOS. IBM PC DOS, amongst others. I agree 100% that MS should not use this name, but as for the point made already, MS themselves have had to suffer precedent - and in direct oppostion!
[September 21, 2006, 2:36]
MS Messaging Tactics Recall Browser Wars Pt II
News In case after case, the company has thwarted or slowed the success of technologies that could conceivably sit on top of the operating system, much the same way Ballmer said Windows did with DOS: word processing (Corel's WordPerfect), calendar...
[June 7, 2001, 16:02]
PolyEdit
Downloads It supports multiple document formats and encodings: RTF, ETF, MS Word 95-2007, MS Excel 97-2003, MS Write, WordPerfect, OEM (DOS), ANSI (Windows), Unicode, UTF-8, Mac, Unix, etc. PolyEdit is both a word processor and a plain text editor, that is...
[January 31, 2008, 23:16]
Resurrecting IBM's PCjr
Articles IBM's Writing Assistant was a capable word-processing application, but WordPerfect would soon be the word processor of choice. Shown are the documentation and floppy disks for Microsoft DOS 2.10. In 1983, the largest computer company in the world...
[August 12, 2008, 17:58]
US Report: Linux Gains Ground -- But Don't Expect A Quick Install
News Netscape has long had Linux versions of its browsers that function similarly to the Windows and Mac versions, and Corel recently began selling a Linux version of WordPerfect. It can also be frustrating on a scale that makes the DOS command line...
[July 23, 1998, 11:36]
Microsoft Rival Aims At New Markets
News PC Suite competes with a growing number of Microsoft Office alternatives, led by Sun Microsystems' StarOffice; its free, open-source sibling OpenOffice.org; and perennial contender WordPerfect. People can email a file to anybody as a PDF and know...
[September 9, 2004, 10:15]
Caldera Unlocks Microsoft Evidence
News While this [LDS Church] may not be Novell's or WP's [WordPerfect's] largest account, it is certainly an emotionally and psychologically important account. The case was expanded to include the alleged tying of DOS and Windows 95 in February 1998.
[April 29, 1999, 10:01]
