WordPerfect for Mac

They lost a lot of money on the Mac version of Wordperfect and EOL'd it over 20 years ago. The last release was in 1997 and Corel finally confirmed its demise publicly around 2001.

Wordperfect was the dominant word processing app in the MS DOS era. Once MS Windows came out in 1985, WP kept losing market share and the product was sold to Novell, who later sold it to Corel, all parties taking a loss on the product. Wordperfect was strong in the legal market (and still is) on the Windows platform but it's not well known outside that market any more.

Bigger players than SSI/Novell/Corel have lost out to MS. Lotus 1-2-3 was the dominant spreadsheet product when MS released Multiplan (IMHO, an awful product). But MS kept at it and eventually morphed their spreadsheet into Excel; in short order Lotus 1-2-3 caved in the market and was discontinued in 2002.

I wouldn't advise thinking there was any kind of "unholy agreement" or "lazy programmers" involved. This was a classic case of being beaten in the marketplace. Just as Wordperfect put the kibosh on Wordstar, MS Word put the kibosh on Wordperfect.

They did many eons ago. And abandoned it. A real problem I suspect is Microsoft developed industry standard formatting that no open source developer has duplicated in the Word clones. And Word became the industry standard editable format for résumé writing. Corel's strong suit was Corel Draw. Corel did have a really cool feature in the reveal codes for formatting, which Microsoft never duplicated.

SoftMaker Office is the first that I have found truly duplciates Microsoft Word formatting on a Mac.

Corel Corporation, per se, no longer exists. It is now Cascade Parent Limited (d/b/a Alludo).

I was mentioning Mac. I was also mentioning that Draw was their strength which never came out for the Mac.

They chose to focus on the strengths, and not the platform that they never really made any headway in either Windows or Mac.

maybe you should reach out to them

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RGStutz wrote:

Why won't Corel write WordPerfect for Mac software?

You would have to ask Corel.

Good to know.

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