when I think of old word processors whose various shortcuts got so ingrained in peoples skulls despite them being completely non mnemonic (wordstar diamond, anybody), I think of Wordstar, which was the undisputed champion for a very long time.Īnyway, I have to agree with the OpenOffice recommendations.What s the Best Word Processor for Linux 5 Options Compared

I don't think it was ever 'the' word processor. In many ways it's more a casualty of the DOS->Windows migration whose corpse is still being passed around. They just got unlucky, and they never caught up, especially because of the ownership changes, which basically took off little bits of the product with every ownership change ('we'll sell all of it, except for this component' type of stuff).īasically, they were a year late with a Windows version, nine months late with a 32-bit version, and a year and a half late with a version that worked on NT, and even these late versions were all extremely buggy compared to the MS Office releases they were supposed to compete with.

I imagine that whoever was in charge of it at the time was banking that windows wasn't any different then, say, Desqview or any number of shell programs, and that developing a program exclusively for it was sort of a waste of resources (at the time this was not an unreasonable assertion, really). (5.1 was released rather soon after Winword 2 but you had to install it from DOS and it had all sorts of messy stability issues, too). The Major turning point was that the first stable version of wordperfect for windows came nearly a year after Word for windows 2.0.

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