Comments on: Some charges tossed in Novell-Microsoft case

Judge throws out four Novell claims in antitrust struggle but allows two to go forward. Decision partly based on infamous Windows e-mail.

Historical Lessons!

Now that Microsoft has decided to embrace the open-standards XML technologies for it future office productivity applications should one now be concerned about this company imposing anti-competitive pressures on Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) or Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Perhaps, when these cases do eventually move forward in court it would be good if a company such as IBM would be called to give evidence against Microsoft (like it did in the landmark case involving the Windows Operating System a few years ago) as to how Microsoft imposed anti-competitive pressure against its own "Lotus SmartSuite Office Productivity Suite"!

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WordPerfect victim of it's own hubris

The DOS version was so successful that the owners didn't take the need to make a Windows version seriously until it was too late. When they finally did come out with a Windows version they rushed it so badly it was nicknamed WordDefect. They lost a couple years of development time simply because they thought the DOS version was good enough.

I'm one person who ponied up $500+ for a copy of WordPerfect (DOS) and was busily trying to learn all it's obscure keystroke combinations when I went to a MS seminar and won a copy of MS Word for Windows as a door prize. I spent a couple hours trying out MS Word and never wasted another minute on WP because it was clear that WP was doomed.

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WordPerfect Today.

Have you tried WordPerfect 12? Having gone from 5.1 to 8 then to 11 and on to 12 I can say 12 has been the best release since 5.1. That is saying a lot because I believe it is better than any of the Microsoft Office versions. Licencing is much better too.