Tom Piwowar >> It also didn't help that WordPerfect got sold several >> times first to Novell and then Corel.
> The big failure was that the folks at WordPerfect never > figured out how to re-engineer their program for a GUI. > They made lots of mistakes. Their menu structure was > terrible. The tried to invent their own user interface > rules instead of following the operating system's > conventions. It was a flop. I thought they tried to use a version of thier DOS interface in the Windows world. At the time, WP was the leader of the word processing packages, they wanted to maintain the same user I/F to make the transition easier. > As much as I criticize MS for its user interface foibles, > the errors made by WordPerfect Corp were far, far worse. I heard (?somewhere?) the single application that sold Windows to the masses was a give away called Solitaire. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly The darn thing works better if you plug it in ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
