It's unfortunate that version 6.1 drove so many people
away and Word and .doc files became much more popular to the extent
that WordPerfect is now a minor player in the word processor field.

That could be a major reason too, but I was one of big supporter to Word
at the time for reasons listed in my previous post.


On 8/4/2013 23:41, Ken Blake wrote:
On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 08:00:29 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 20:41:26 +0800, xfile wrote:

Not body ever really cared about what processor was used and it has
always been the document format


Yes, I agree.


for which .doc was the default standard from the early days.


But I don't agree with that. The WordPerfect .wpd format was much more
of a standard until around 1993. In 1993 WordPerfect 6.0 came out and
it was unfortunately a bug-laden version that drove many users away
from it.

And if I didn't make it clear in the above, largely for that reason it
was around then that Word became more popular and the .doc format took
over from .wpd.

To add to that, since version 6.1 came out, WordPerfect became much
more stable, and in my view it remains the best word processor out
there. I've run every version since 4.1 and now run the current
version, X6. It's unfortunate that version 6.1 drove so many people
away and Word and .doc files became much more popular to the extent
that WordPerfect is now a minor player in the word processor field.