It's strange to think of the alternate reality where "WordPerfect for Windows" was as much as a hit as the original WordPerfect. It really helped Microsoft tha

It's strange to think of the alternate reality where "WordPerfect for Windows" was as much as a hit as the original WordPerfect. It really helped Microsoft that WordPerfect for Windows was a slow mess of a product. It literally couldn't keep up with basic typing on the 386 we had. Input wasn't just laggy, it was utterly unusable even in a fresh empty file. Trying it out on a friend's 486 it ran a bit better, but it was still felt like a confused product. Being comfortable in WP meant being comfortable with the keyboard interface and macros and it didn't translate well to windows at all. A few years later, by the time Office 95 came out, WordPerfect felt like a completely dead product.