It’s easy to hit the Next button and forgo entering one no validation takes place at all. In its early stages, the wizard will request your product serial number provided by the Product Authenticity Card. Installation is with the Corel Setup Wizard. I tested under Windows 95 OSR 2.5 using VMware Workstation. Other discs included contain a heap of clip art and fonts, headset software, and a trial version of Corel Print Office, a now discontinued desktop publishing application. Whilst there’s five CDs included, only one is required to install the office suite. In saying that, to use with the headset system requirements jumped up to recommending a Pentium II with 128 MB RAM. Both office suites were around the ball park of 250 MB for installation dependant on features installed. On the other hand, Microsoft Office 2000 was seeking a Pentium 75 and was a bit hungrier on RAM requirements particularly on Windows NT 4.0. WordPerfect Office 2000 was satisfied with a 486 DX/2 66 PC with 16 MB RAM, and either Windows 95 or NT 4.0 installed. System requirements were more forgiving than Microsoft Office. Other offshoots included Small Business and Law Office editions for the legal profession. This copy purchased sat in-between known as the Voice-Powered edition comprising of a headset manufactured by Philips with the Standard edition of the software. In a similar manner, Corel also offered both a Standard and Professional edition, with Professional including their Paradox database application. Instead of attempting to copy like for like with Microsoft Office, the emphasis became about niche feature sets and avoid alienating their existing user base.Īs one would gather WordPerfect Office 2000 was competing with Microsoft Office 2000, albeit with more aggressive pricing. Major competitors were Lotus and Corel, though market share had slid to the point where it didn’t really matter who was considered second or third place.

Ever since Windows dominated the PC landscape, Microsoft Office was and still is the mainstay for productivity applications.

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