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by ghaff 1043 days ago
In general, professional/prosumer local desktop software has mostly collapsed into one (sometimes two) products per category and the categories themselves have become fairly rigidly defined. There's other more mainstream consumer packages but I'm guessing most of those are increasingly marginalized by open source and hosted services of various sorts.

Contrast today with when you probably had one or two dozen word processing programs with significant market share.