Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

I believe I read somewhere that it was the law firm that MS had hired that 
was using WordPerfect.


-----Original Message----- 
From: James Knott
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:42 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

Virgil Arrington wrote:
> A few years ago, most lawyers in the U.S. used WordPerfect, and they
> really liked it. It had some features that were very suitable for the
> law office. However, most of their corporate clients were using Word.
> (Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft). Over time, law offices
> began migrating to Word, not because they liked the program better,
> but because they needed file compatibility with their clients. Now,
> WordPerfect is all but an afterthought.

After one of one of the anti-trust cases, Microsoft received a large
document in WP format.  They had to go out and buy a copy of Word
Perfect, to read that document.  ;-)

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