I wrote 'Nuke Redmond'

From: Mark Gregory <gregorym_at_cadvision.com>
Date: Sun May 7 19:17:44 2000

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Sunday, May 07, 2000 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: I wrote 'Nuke Redmond'


>Has anyone mentioned WordPerfect. You know the Word processor that had
>over 90% of the market until Microsoft changed their OS licensing terms
>such that their OEMs had to bundle either Office (or later Works) with
>every copy of Windows they sold.
>
>--Chuck


Sorry, but WordPerfect contributed a lot to their own demise. First, they
abandoned many of the non-Windows platforms that made them attractive in the
first place (e.g. DOS, Amiga, NeXT). The ability to exchange documents
between different platforms was a huge win for WordPerfect, and they threw
it away. Second, when they belatedly jumped on the Windows bandwagon, they
produced a buggy, unstable, all but unusable version - WP for Windows 6.0.
The time it took them to fix all of the problems with WP 6.0 enabled MS-Word
to catch up on features, when WP had been demonstrably better up until then.

The corporate merry-go-round that saw WordPerfect go from an independant
company, to Novell, to Corel probably didn't help either.

Mark.
Received on Sun May 07 2000 - 19:17:44 BST