Battle of the Office Suites Microsoft and Corel Announce New Office Versions Ben Alley
WordPerfect Office 2002 and Office 10 suite by Corel and Microsoft were unveiled on Monday at Comdex. Corel's Office is scheduled for North American release in first half of 2001 and Microsoft's Office 10 for a second quarter 2001 release.
Corel's WordPerfect Office 2002 includes applications such as WordPerfect 10, Quattro Pro 10, Corel Presentation 10, and CorelCENTRAL 10. Microsoft Corp. also demonstrated its upcoming Office 10 suite, with new Task Pane capability that enables users to more easily format documents and perform other common jobs.