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Corel still maintains WordPerfect too, last release was 7 months ago

> WordPerfect lacks support for Unicode, which limits its usefulness in many markets outside North America and Western Europe.

Oh my.

I do know WP was popular in Law Offices long after Word had taken the market. Not sure if that is still the case.

The issue was (and probably still is) that MS Word paginates footnotes improperly. They can't change it because it will break backwards compatibility. This handed the legal market to WP. And because you can't reliably import/export the documents and get pagination to work, you often have legal firms using Word to do the initial preparation and then hand it over to a legal secretary to type the whole thing into WP -- which will be the document that is submitted to the court.

amazing

talk about efficiency

All billable hours.... what's not to like?

And they've been plenty active in court; SCOTUS just turned down an appeal for the Microsoft case a few years ago

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/28/victory_for_microso...

WPS Office seems to have cornered the market for MS Office alternatives, i.e. WPS runs in Linux, Wordperfect doesn't.

citations?

Yes, WordPerfect has supported them for many years.

https://support.corel.com/hc/en-us/articles/215963808-How-to...

I think they're asking about the assertion that "WPS Office seems to have cornered the market for MS Office alternatives", which would be pretty surprising. Libreoffice, Google Docs, and iWork all exist, and all seem more popular.

That's not even slightly a credible citation for usage/popularity stats. :/

I think OpenOffice, Google Docs and Appple’s suite would beg to differ. I don’t think I’ve seen an install in two decades.

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