Even the icons that are used are almost identical to Microsoft products. Many of the functions are laid out in the same place and in the same manner as Microsoft products. You are able to use this suite of products on a trial basis before you pay for a license. The Corel WordPerfect Office is not as advanced as Microsoft Office but it has so many functions that are so similar to Microsoft Office that you may feel a fool paying the Microsoft Company when you can pay far less for this product. It is a great suite of tools that you should try if you are considering paying for Microsoft Office. Microsoft holds the monopoly over Office software which is why Corel came into existence as one of few alternatives to Microsoft. The Corel WordPerfect Office suite is a feature-rich alternative to Microsoft Office. Nothing but good can come from this.Give This Set Of Office Tools A Trial Run For Free This decision benefits everyone, especially clients/vendors, as they no longer need to rely on a particular software vendor for updates and support.Īll in all, I applaud Corel making the move to bundle Firefox with it's WordPerfect Suite. Rather, I see them more likely supporting ODF natively, and maybe even by default in future versions, giving up on maintaining the proprietary document binaries. Honestly, I don't think Corel will be opening up their WordPerfect Suite anytime soon, if ever.

Second, it means Corel has Open Source on it's mind, which could possibly mean either opening up the WordPerfect Suite, or supporting ODF, which would put even further pressure on Microsoft Office (although, right now, it's really no competition, except that more and more users are requesting ODF and not OOXML (Office Open XML)). First, it tightens the competition with Internet Explorer as now, a major corporation is bundling Firefox with it's software. However, with that said, this is great news, for a couple reasons.

As you are fully aware, most likely anyway, I don't use WordPerfect as: 1) it's not Free Software, and 2) it doesn't support ODF natively.

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