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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I think the problem was that the Wordperfect team sat on their respective butts and were late to the game when it came to developing a Windows version.
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Actually, I think the problem was when WordPerfect Corp. was sold to Novell. Not long after the sale, the software began a steep and rapid decline. Novell had no clue what to do with it as far as the consumer market was concerned. At the time, I was using WordStar, WordPerfect, XyWrite, and Word because different clients insisted on different software.The the consolidation began and WordStar and XyWrite were the first to go because clients were finding that their vendors were migrating to WordPerfect and Word and insisting that manuscript be turned over to them in templates that had been created for Word or WordPerfect. Then came Novell's disastrous support. Novell had other products it wanted to sell and so devoted little to WordPerfect. Microsoft had the field to itself.
When Corel bought WordPerfect I didn't even consider buying it. Not only had all my clients moved to Word, but my experience with Corel support with Ventura made me certain WordPerfect would be a you-bought-it-you-deal-with-it purchase. Ventura Publisher had been light years ahead of Adobe and Quark for DTP and remained so for several years after Corel bought it. But Corel quickly put Ventura on the path to death and users had no choice but to migrate to CS or XPress. Corel's focus was on Draw as a competitor to Illustrator, but even there it lost the battle.