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Looking back at the history of #WordPerfect—looks like I must have started using it in 1990, maybe even 1991, not 1989 as I had thought. I began with v. 5.1 (though I had played with v. 5) and given the timing, it must have crossed over in the 1990s. Before then it would have been Wordstar on the IBM PC-compatible and SuperScript on the Commodore 64.
@bert_hubert Bestaat nog steeds, btw.
#wordperfect
If you're looking for a full version history of all WordPerfect releases between 1979 and 1997, here it is.
I'm personally using WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS and WordPerfect 3.5e for Macintosh as my main word processors.
In my #blog
Where #WordPerfect continues to hold its own against Word and other upstarts
https://jackyan.com/blog/2026/02/where-wordperfect-continues-to-hold-its-own-against-word-and-other-upstarts/ #software #design
Above: This blog post, prepared on WordPerfect, with Reveal Codes showing the mark-up I was asked today why I find WordPerfect better than Word. Unlike most people, I never made the shift in the 1990s. There are the usual features that most reviewers note, such as Reveal Codes, which shows just why the text
@kuroneko Here you go, freshly written!
https://jackyan.com/blog/2026/02/where-wordperfect-continues-to-hold-its-own-against-word-and-other-upstarts/ #WordPerfect
Above: This blog post, prepared on WordPerfect, with Reveal Codes showing the mark-up I was asked today why I find WordPerfect better than Word. Unlike most people, I never made the shift in the 1990s. There are the usual features that most reviewers note, such as Reveal Codes, which shows just why the text
My #MSOffice installation threw one of those fits when you won’t let it connect to the mothership, so it will not function without fishing out the disks and reinstalling. It does this every year or three.
So far, I have had a few instances with either word or spreadsheet documents needing editing. While I love using #Corel #WordPerfect #QuattroPro suite, it doesn’t always handle things as well.
I remembered a stale copy of #LibreOffice was installed, so I tried that. It managed all I have needed of it so far, and I suspect I will not reconsider the Office reinstall unless I need to use PivotTables, and that isn’t very often lately.
Yes, the Office is an old version, and owned, not leased. I have more than had my money’s worth out of it, and no, there is no way I will be upgrading it. No, I don’t let it near the www.
Now that #Microsoft Office is facing another cycle of #Enshittification let us remember how they won in the first place in early 1990s from a person who still uses #WordPerfect for #DOS.
Word basically had very little market share and was deemed an inferior product to WordPerfect. Then marketing goons at Microsoft came up with a brilliant idea of bundling Word, Excel, and PowerPoint together and calling it Microsoft Office with retail price of 500 USD.
WordPerfect alone cost 500 USD back then.
Again, happy that I use #WordPerfect … and that the only copy of Word I ever licensed was 97.
I was asked by a family member why it was taking so long to paste something large into a new Microsoft Word document on their computer, I sarcastically replied it was because it takes a while to upload it all to the copilot AI nonense first. And then I realized accidentally I might be right...I disabled copilot in Word and it went back to being instant again So that's cool that Microsoft seems uploading everything you paste into a new Word doc to their servers now.
Do you ever get a #retrocomputing intrusive thought?
This is #wordperfect 7 (ish, all from 1996 and 1997)
* Native #solaris #unix version (bottom left)
* Native 32bit windows in SunPCi (bottom right)
* #macintosh system 7 in MAE (top left)
* Windows 3.1 (16bit) in #wabi (top right)
All of this was supported by at least one vendor at the time!
And you can actually copy/paste between all of them, and it just works!
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