It was a game-changer, and it quickly became the world’s most popular operating system. When Windows 95 came out, it exploded onto the market. In 1994, WordPerfect was acquired by Novell Inc., which hoped to rekindle WordPerfect’s dying flame, and become a worthy opponent for Microsoft.
As more and more homes, establishments, and companies began leaving DOS and upgrading their systems to the Windows operating system, Microsoft seized more control. WordPerfect was delayed in releasing a version of its software which was compatible with the up-and-coming Windows environment – an error which ended up costing them a lot. The pivotal point came in the early 1990s with the release of Microsoft Windows and its increasingly technologically-progressive versions. However, WordPerfect was still enjoying the high life of software success. In the late 1980s, Microsoft Word was WordPerfect’s main competitor, and both companies were putting up a good fight for control of the market. By 1986, it became the heavy-weight champion of the word processing world. In the early to middle 1980s, WordPerfect managed to improve itself, innovate, and zoom past the then-leading WordStar and MultiMate word processors. When WordPerfect was created in 1979 (a cool 4 years before Word made its Multi-Tool Word debut), it was the most advanced of its kind. However, the question must be asked: does its ever-growing popularity automatically reflect on its quality? Does the fact that 1 in 7 people use Word make it the best word processor around? Not necessarily…not by a long shot. So, yes, Word is the most popular word processor around. Microsoft and its products have been dominating the market for years.
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