Corel Ships WordPerfect Office 2002

Corel Corporation recently began shipping the latest version of WordPerfect Office, the company's rival to Office XP. The office suite will be available in North America beginning May 1 in Standard and Professional editions. The Standard Edition will retail for $159 USD and include WordPerfect 10, Quattro Pro 10, Presentations 10, and CorelCENTRAL 10, the company's highly touted e-mail client. Professional Edition includes Corel's database software, Paradox 10, as well as Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5.0 and will retail for $259 USD.

"We have a devoted following of WordPerfect users and we are rewarding that
loyalty by providing new features that reflect their priorities," said
Graham Brown, executive vice-president, business applications, in the press release. "We consulted with our customers during the development process and we incorporated their feedback into the final release. We are confident that WordPerfect Office 2002 directly answers our customers' needs and the early response from our Beta testers suggests that our enhancements are right on target."

Both editions of WordPerfect Office 2002 will include an electronic version of the Pocket Oxford Dictionary and the Internet calling service Net2Phone.

Those interested in trying the suite can do so until the end of the month using the online software evaluation service at runaware.com.

For more information on Corel WordPerfect Office and its applications, visit corel.com.