WordPerfect is not only still around, a new version came out in 2021 - The Verge

Not many pieces of software are still around and getting updates after forty-odd years. But the WordPerfect word processor is. It’s even on sale at a discount.

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 AM ET on Thursday. WordPerfect Office Home and Student, which contains the eponymous word processing software, as well as apps for making slideshows, spreadsheets, and taking notes, is marked down to $59.99 from $100. And the Standard and Professional versions, which include extra software and capabilities, are a full $100 and $200 off, respectively.

Someone’s a mega-fan of word processing.

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So just to sum up here: this software — one of the go-to word processors before graphical user interfaces were widespread — is still around, and the company behind it apparently thinks it’s something that new users are interested in picking up. All I can say is wow.

To be clear, I’m sure there’s some sort of niche use case that people really love WordPerfect for, and that I’m going to hear from pretty much everyone who still uses it why it’s actually the best word processing software out there. (And I welcome that feedback! I’m fascinated to learn what you do with it.) But I’d also assume that anyone who needs WordPerfect for whatever they’re doing... already has it, meaning they won’t get much out of a sale.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/7/20/23269344/wordperfect-productivity-software-sale-2021

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