Corel Releases WordPerfect Beta and Inches Closer to Dual Format Support
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As you may recall, Corel announced last November that the next release of its flagship WordPerfect Office productivity suite would come out in "mid 2007," and would support both the ODF as well as the OOXML document formats. It's now out a bit late and in beta, not commercial form - but it's also available as a free download for evaluation purposes.
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The new press release is interesting, when taken in the context of Corel's (at best) ambivalent commitment to ODF in the past, despite the fact that Corel was a founding member of the OASIS Technical Committee that developed the ODF standard. In delaying so long to embrace ODF it had seemed to me that Corel was missing the chance of a lifetime, given that its core market was in government users - the group most interested in long-term document accessibility. Now, they seem to have figured out a strategy that makes sense, both for them and for their customers. Full Story |
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