>You think it was Corel's (or anyone other than MSes for that matter) fault that WordPerfect has moved on?

The fault lies with Corel and Novell. WordPerfect had the vast majority of desktops. Non-sectaries started to move to MS Word because it was prettier, required less key combinations, was easier.

WordPerfect finally released a buggy Windows version, then pauses then released a few more versions. Really they were slow to the Windows market with a poor product.

Any professional typist will tell you even with the poor product it was easier and faster to do things in WordPerfect. But secretaries started to move to MS WOrd because
- their bosses and other non-typist started to give them Word docuements
- it came loaded on their computers
- the IS dept started to drop support for WordPerfect. Hell it was easier to support Office than to support 3 different companies software

>Hmm, less see WordPerfect was the standard Word Processor and Excel was the standard spread sheet. MS didn't like that, so they made Office (which included Word) the only way to get Excel.

Lotus was the standard. WordPerfect, Lotus and Harvard Graphics, then each floundered and MS Office emerged.

The old guys are going to bring up Visicalc and WordStar.. but just ignore them. :-)