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Software maker Corel announced a new version Monday of its WordPerfect office software, marketing the package as a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office for consumers and small businesses.

Canadian software maker Corel on Wednesday announced it will release the newest version of its flagship office suite, WordPerfect Office 11, in late April. The new suite contains many of the same ...

Corel will begin selling the new version of its WordPerfect office software Wednesday, but analysts don't expect the package to make much headway against Microsoft Office. As previously reported, ...

As I noted in the last issue, Novell and Microsoft recently settled their lawsuit in which Novell claimed that Redmond had used underhanded means to render Novell’s NDS for NT inoperative. Rather than ...

After all these years, Microsoft and Novell are still fighting over what went wrong for WordPerfect in the months after the release of Windows 95. The delayed release of WordPerfect for the ...

Long the underdog, WordPerfect has filled a niche and maintained a strong following over the years. The latest WordPerfect Office 11 offers more polish than useful new capabilities, but some may find ...

Corel is adopting a neutral approach to the electronic-document-format duel and updating its WordPerfect word-processing software to support fully both the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft‘s ...

Bill Gates says the run-up to the company's Windows 95 rollout was a difficult dash and led to several last-minute changes to technical features. "We worked super hard," the Microsoft co-founder said.

Corel’s WordPerfect Office 11 and Microsoft’s Office 2003 are both still in beta testing, but the Canadian company announced this week that the flagship office productivity suite will make its public ...

Corel’s sprawling WordPerfect Office X6 delivers a slew of apps and utilities, plus new features that will appeal to niche audiences–but it doesn’t make a great case for most Microsoft Office users to ...