But then, the life and blood of the global financial system runs on Excel, so I'm not sure why I would be surprised by this.
In retrospect, we should have gotten them addicted to Lisp machines and Silicon Graphics workstations ;-)
Many lawyers in America still use WordPerfect, and I suspect Corel still makes and updates it for that reason :-)
I've heard from WordPerfect fans that it gives much more precise and reliable control over formatting than Microsoft Word, very important for picky court clerks and judges. WordPerfect also has a "reveal formatting codes" function, the equivalent of showing the HTML tags or Markdown syntax in line with the formatted result.
I haven't used WordPerfect in years, not since some WYSIWYG version for DOS (6?), so I don't have a personal opinion on whether it still deserves its popularity today.
IIRC, that's because Word can't do footnotes (or something like that) the way lawyers need to do them, but WordPerfect can.
The only court I know that is truly finicky about formatting is the US Supreme Court, but they have sensible rules, like requiring Century, and book-width lines for actual readability.
Are those rules published somewhere?
The interesting thing is that they do what they do well, "boot" instantly, and can be carried in the pocket. When a company I was with was being acquired pretty much every one of the auditors had one of these in their pocket. They knew exactly what sequence of presses would answer the question they needed answer.
They are the two I use most frequently, but I don't think they are popular outside our niche.
It kills me to see programmers on Windows using Notepad++.
It kills me to see programmers on Windows using Notepad.
Sometimes I fire up my Microsoft Natural keyboard. Right now it's the Sun PC keyboard's shift. Next in rotation is the Unix flavor.