DG>I'm sure that would be a very nice PR ploy; we could all be quite happy 
with
  >patched WP 5.1/DOS, etc, all the while Corel runs down the road to 
bankruptc
  >keeping us happy. There is no point in supporting 5.1 or 5.2; they are 
ead
  >ends. Support for 6.0 is of marginal value, because that was always 
roken.
  >(Why do you think there are so many faithful 5.x users out there? You 
should
  >have been in here when 6.0 was first released by WPCorp; it was one long
  >litany
  >of woe and terror.)
I was one of the faithful who got wp6.0 dos as soon as it hit the
shelves.  Since I cannot consider myself a "power user," I did not run
into any problems.  It ran like a champ on my 486/66 w/8mb of ram.
DG>It makes far more sense for Corel to put all its effort into cleaning
  >up the last public release of WP, then working on a new release,
  >to get back into the marketplace with a product that can go
  >somewhere, a product that is not a dead end, a product that, since
  >it has a future, will gain them revenue to continue the process.
I can see your point.  I just got a new Pentium computer on Friday and
WP 6.1 DOS runs extremely well.  I would have upgraded to the Suite with
6.2 in it but the cost is much too high to make it worthwhile.  There is
too little useful stuff in the new version to justify paying their
asking price of over $100 for it.  Customer service told me, "but you're
getting a suite for the price!"  But, I said: "I don't want the suite, I
want ONLY 6.2 DOS and nothing else..."  Bad marketing in my opinion:
GIVE THE CUSTOMER WHAT THEY WANT!
DG>The alternative is 2 or 3 more years of obsolete and broken software
  >that hardly anyone wants; that would surely be the road to no WP
  >at all, if not the bankruptcy of Corel. What do you prefer to see?
I want to see WordPerfect live...
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