Article 61MAX TIL that WordPerfect is still around, getting updates, and is currently on sale

TIL that WordPerfect is still around, getting updates, and is currently on sale

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Mitchell Clark
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WordPerfect.0.png A screenshot of WordPerfect 2021. You read that right.

Recently my colleagues and I were discussing the history of word processors (that's just the kind of thing we do here), and a few of them reminisced about using one called WordPerfect many, many years ago. Given that its heyday was in the eighties, I hadn't heard much about it, so I Googled it for fun. And that's when I discovered that it's still being sold as a productivity suite. What's more, it's not one of those cases where a company is still taking money for what's essentially abandonware - the most recent release is WordPerfect 2021. As in a year ago. And it's on sale.

Corel, the company that's been in charge of WordPerfect since before I was born, is running a (horrifically modern) Black Friday in July promotion, which ends at 9...

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