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.

I agree. WordPerfect was then default, and then Word Star.

When Word (1.x) came out, it has only two advantages: (1) GUI, and (2)
File compatibility with Word Perfect and Word Star. And Excel is aiming
at Lotus 123.

AmiPro came out at about same time, and I personally liked it over Word
(1.0) but it has another its own document format.

So I don't know about others, I chose Word for those two reasons
mentioned above and convinced more people and companies than I can
remember to switch to Word and later on Office.

Ironically, MS broke the most two important advantages by moving to a
confusing GUI and its file compatibility.

On 8/4/2013 23:00, 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.