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Monday, May 17, 2004

WordPerfect Office Upgrade Breaks Little New Ground

Washington Post (free registration required): "This release is the least consequential upgrade I've ever used. I can't see why an owner of either the Office 11 Corel released last year or any reasonably current version of Microsoft Office would bother paying the $150 upgrade price (Win 98 or newer required) for this bundle of WordPerfect, the Quattro Pro spreadsheet and the Presentations slide-show editor. Nor can I see too many home users lining up to pay $300 for the full release, not when OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) provides comparable utility and better Microsoft Office file-format compatibility for free."

This is a sobering but, alas, accurate appraisal of WordPerfect 12, which Corel had billed as being a Microsoft Office replacement, with a supposed Microsoft Office UI mode. It's all bogus, folks, and hugely disappointing. Shame on Corel for not doing better than this.

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