Corel will begin selling the new version of its WordPerfect office software Wednesday, but analysts don't expect the package to make much headway against Microsoft Office. As previously reported, ...

WordPerfect's spread isn't saving Corel The Canadian software maker hopes a slew of deals putting its WordPerfect suite on low-end PCs will help keep the company afloat--but analysts are skeptical.

As I noted in the last issue, Novell and Microsoft recently settled their lawsuit in which Novell claimed that Redmond had used underhanded means to render Novell’s NDS for NT inoperative. Rather than ...

In a desperate bid for survival, longtime office software maker Corel has agreed to a takeover by its majority investor, Vector Capital, a move that could help keep classic software packages such as ...

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Corel plans to test the waters later this month for a Linux version of its WordPerfect productivity software. A Corel representative said the company's online store will begin selling a ...

In 2004, Novell sued Microsoft, claiming that the software giant had illegally engaged in anticompetitive practices, unfairly hurting the WordPerfect word processor and Quattro Pro spreadsheet in ...

After all these years, Microsoft and Novell are still fighting over what went wrong for WordPerfect in the months after the release of Windows 95. The delayed release of WordPerfect for the ...

Hewlett-Packard is booting Microsoft Office software from its Pavilion line of consumer PCs in favor of software from Corel, as more PC makers consider cheaper Microsoft alternatives. The deal, ...