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"He made the mistake of bringing in a [singular] venture capitalist" and it didn't work out. This isn't "murdered by VC's". "Microsoft Word ate the remains" is
by scholia 10y ago
"He made the mistake of bringing in a [singular] venture capitalist" and it didn't work out. This isn't "murdered by VC's".
"Microsoft Word ate the remains" is still wrong ;-)
- jacquesm 10y agoI was already aware of the VC angle before making the first comment, as far as I can see they had a very active role in bringing wordstar down (you can debate if that qualifies as murder or not) and if you disagree with that Microsoft Word successfully eradicated the remains of wordstar (and many other word processors of the day) I'm perfectly OK with that it just does not match my recollection of the events at the time.
- rejschaap 10y agoMost everyone I know was switching from WordStar to WordPerfect at the time. Microsoft Word came much later for me.
- jacquesm 10y agoOne day it was all Wang dedicated word processors, the next it was all Microsoft Word. Of course this very much depends on what you were doing at the time, but MS was pushing very hard to establish their 'office' products. The turning point was 1989, with Windows just barely being usable, then 3.0 came out and it went very quickly.
- klibertp 10y agoIt also heavily depends on where you were - in some countries, it was a loooong time of nothing and then MS Word. Nearly 30 years of MS Word to date and no signs of any competition, actually...
- jacquesm 10y agoI haven't touched a microsoft product in a decade now. Which leads to fun stuff when family wants me to look at their computers and I can now honestly say I have no clue how the current version of windows works.
- scholia 10y agoThat was what generally happened. Microsoft Word (for DOS) never got much traction, while Word Perfect (for DOS) mostly replaced WordStar (on CP/M and DOS). Word (for Windows) started to take over after Windows 3 came out in 1990.....