Tag archive: WordPerfect

After years of litigation, Novell's antitrust case against Microsoft has ended in a hung jury. A single juror was left unconvinced that Microsoft leveraged its monopoly power in the desktop operating systems market back in the mid-1990s to advance its own Microsoft Office suite and crush WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. The result is that the case (which dates all the way back to the introduction of Windows 95) could find itself going to… Read More

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates took the stand today as the first witness in a case brought against Microsoft by Novell that dates all the way back to the dark days of Windows 95. In a nutshell, Novell claims Microsoft abused its monopoly power in the desktop operating system market to crush WordPerfect when Microsoft launched Windows 95—and, with it, a Windows 95-compatible version of Microsoft Office. Microsoft claims no such strategy:… Read More

Long-time software developer Corel Corporation has revealed in an amended SEC filing that it is accepting an offer from Vector Capital, its majority investor, to take the company completely private. Under the deal, Vector Capital will acquire the remaining outstanding 32 percent of Corel's shares that it doesn't already own. The move will give Corel a cash infusion necessary to avoid defaulting on loans on November 30; however, it… Read More

Microsoft Office might be the 800-pound gorilla of general productivity applications, but it's not quite the only ape in town: Corel Corporation took the wraps off its Corel WordPerfect Office X3 productivity suite today, sharpening up its word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications with new features, stronger compatibility with Microsoft Office, and a new email client called WordPerfect Mail. Available in Standard,… Read More