Review: WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux

Garrett Goebel has written in with a short review of the WP8 demo. He starts off: Well, I have downloaded (bz2 or gz) Corel WordPerfect 8.0 for Linux and have been playing around with it for a couple days now... and I have to say that I'm pretty happy. It is a full featured, intuitive, WYSIWYG. -Oh, and I haven't had a crash or needed to reboot my Linux box yet ;-) I was wondering what experience other people are having?

Personally, if WordPerfect 8.0 foreshadows what is to come with the full Corel Office Suite for Linux, then I'm drooling in anticipation. Corel's Resource Guide for the WordPerfect 8.0 Office Suite covers the functionality we can look for in the Linux version. For your average corporate desktop end user, there will be no reason not to run Linux. After all, if you're used to M$ Word, then switching over is easy (short of rewriting all those macros)

Word Perfect has pretty much the same line up of features as M$ Word, and a couple extras. For instance, the shadow cursor which give you real WYSIWYG point click and type "right there" editing. Another thing: It starts up quicker than M$ Word. One feature I couldn't find much documentation on was "remote window". -Will we be able to telecommute in and co-edit documents?

The benefit of having a full featured office suite for Linux, to which your average PC user can easily convert can not be understated. If Corporate IS ever catches on, they'd realize immense savings in licensing and supporting their PC infrastructure. -Not to mention more uptime.