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I used to TEACH Wordperfect for DOS. I'd guess it was printer support that made WP a success on DOS, but WP for Windows was rubbish. MicroPro/Wordstar blew it 1984 with the creation of incompatible and clunky Wordstar 2000.
MS Word for DOS is unrelated to MS Word GUI on Windows/Mac.
MS Office didn't exist when Word was already the most popular on Mac/Windows. They added Access later. Also the awful Powerpoint was bought in later. As was Visio.
Loads of people bought standalone Word even in days of Office 4.3 and Office 95 (the next version).
CP/M and DOS wordprocessing was a big step forward, but it was true WYSIWYG and NAMED STYLES, not inline formatting that was a change. A nightmare to reformat ANY document with inline formatting, as almost all DOS & CP/M was.
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