WordPerfect is still being sold. Lawyers used to love it, but I think they’ve mostly moved on to Word now. So who’s still buying new licenses for WP in 2024?
I'm having flashbacks to the late 90s for some reason, WordPerfect was briefly popular on Linux, before StarOffice, OpenOffice, etc., when Corel Linux shipped with it.
I don't remember why I did this, but some time in the last decade I found one of those old binaries and ran it. It was annoying to get a libc5 binary to run on a recent distro. But it worked.
They haven't released a new version since 2021 so I am guessing hardly anyone is still buying WordPerfect. I'm guessing that like Winzip (which they also own) it is just going on fumes now while the company that owns it is focusing on other products.
I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS
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