WordPerfect WP is a word processing application, now owned by Corel, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms.Windows may rule the world of popular computing on PCs around theglobe, but DOS still has a place in the hearts and minds ofcomputer users who vaguely remember what a C prompt looks like.Even if DOS (with all its arcane commands and its drab, boringlook) isn't your idea of the best way to get things done on a PC,you'll find plenty of fast and friendly help on hand with the thirdedition of DOS For Dummies. It was originally developed under contract at Brigham Young University for use on a Data General minicomputer in the late s.Īt the height of its popularity in the s and early s, it was the dominant player in the word processor market, displacing the prior market leader WordStar. WordPerfect gained praise for its 'look of sparseness' and clean display. Its early popularity was based partly on its availability for a wide variety of computers and operating systems, and also partly because of extensive, no-cost support, with 'hold jockeys' entertaining users while waiting on the phone. Its dominant position ended after a failed release for Microsoft Windows, followed by a long delay before introducing an improved version, as Microsoft Word was introduced at the same time. Word rapidly took over the market, helped by aggressive bundling deals that ultimately produced Microsoft Office, and WordPerfect was no longer a popular standard by the mids. WordPerfect Corporation was sold to Novell in, which then sold the product to Corel in Corel has made regular releases to the product since then, often in the form of office suites under the WordPerfect name that include the Quattro Pro spreadsheet, the Presentations slides formatter, and other applications. The common filename extension of WordPerfect document files is.

Older versions of WordPerfect also used file extensions. In, Brigham Young University graduate student Bruce Bastian and computer science professor Alan Ashton created word processing software for a Data General minicomputer system owned by the city of Orem, Utah.īastian and Ashton retained ownership of the software that they created. They then founded Satellite Software International, Inc.

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