HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect

nexex points to this Financial Times article, which says that HP has dropped Microsoft Word from the software lineup in the personal computers it sells to customers. From the article: "The move follows a decision last week by Dell Computer, the number two PC maker, to replace Microsoft software. Both companies said they would offer WordPerfect productivity software from Corel of Canada instead of Microsoft's Works, a scaled-down version of its top-selling Office software." Nexex writes:"I think it should be noted, MS Works does include the full version of Word."

MS Works?

[coolfrood]

This has got to be the biggest oxymoron of the century!

No, no, no

[Rui del-Negro]

They did it the wrong way around. Word is actually a pretty decent word processor. They should have kept Word and ditched Windows!

RMN
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What's wrong with. . .

[kfg]

vim?

KFG

Re:Crap office suites.

[MisterBlister]

Hahah yeah Microsoft is the only company in the world that tries to lock people in with propreitary formats!! Haha, have another bong hit!

Re:wow, MS is brilliant

[hendridm]

> buy are overpriced non-OS software product...

Who are you to judge who is brilliant or not?

5 Year Plan:

[Fat Casper]

1. Relegate Microsoft to the dust heap of history.

Re:No Star Office?

[Dave2 Wickham]

DAMN! So I won't be able go to my Office(r) to do some work (when I'm old enough to get a job :S)?
/me sits in his Office(r) looking out of the Windows(r).

Do they still include Notepad?

[guttentag]

Do they still include Notepad? Because you know that's the only reason I buy Windows PCs. Everyone used to have Notepad but then they switched to the Boston stapler, and they were married, and if they take my Notepad away again I'll... I'll... OK...

Re:Wordperfect has name recognition.

[tigga]

Try asking your mom/grandmother if they've heard of StarOffice or WordPerfect. That is your answer. Common, you are mixing completely different things.
WordPerfect was MS Word's rival in DOS times.
A lot of people worked with it.

So maybe your mom or grandmother still have copy of it on floppy ;)

New logo

[hemholtz]

slashdot needs to update thier corel logo to the urinal/toilet seat one corel went with

Re:WP was the standard...

[Citizen of Earth]

Stole users you say comrade? What a despicable act of capitalism.

In a Communist country, everyone would just keep using Wordstar.

Re:WP was the standard...

[sv0f]

In a Communist country, everyone would just keep using Wordstar.

Wordstar! Bah! It was only with extreme reluctance that I recently upgraded from my IBM Seletric to Electric Pencil.