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This is not a good article. The relevant context is missing: Corel has implemented a "Word mode" in it's product that mimics the look and feel of Microsoft Word
by kyberias 11y ago
This is not a good article. The relevant context is missing: Corel has implemented a "Word mode" in it's product that mimics the look and feel of Microsoft Word. Mimics too well, Microsoft thinks.
- frik 11y agoMicrosoft WinWord is basically feature complete since 1989/90. And it wasn't an original design at all. Xerox and various other companies had word processors several years before Microsoft. Microsoft managed to have an competitive advantage by owning the Windows 3 and DOS platforms - changing platform APIs to make competing word processors and spreadsheet programs incompatible wasn't a fine thing. Microsoft has certainly a bad track record how they act with competitors. Is this the "new Microsoft" everyone tries to tell me they see in their new CEO? It seems it's the same old company with the same old well known tactics.
- kyberias 11y agoDisregarding your other comments, which I think are irrelevant to the topic, I'm interested in this: > changing platform APIs to make competing word processors and spreadsheet programs incompatible wasn't a fine thing You claim that the only reason Word succeeded in competing with e.g. WordPerfect, was by "changing platform APIs". Could you be more specific? What OS, application and exactly what APIs?