Computers took the place of word processors and smart phones and tablets have all but replaced computers.
In the event, Corel's market share had already peaked even in the firm's strongest area, straightforward word processors.
Microsoft needs that weapon as Google encroaches on its turf with freebie Web versions of word processors and spreadsheets.
When Tony Blair's ministers retire to their word processors, they will have the usual tales of personal animosity to tell.
Tafkap's people gave Arista's people a computer disk for Windows word processors.
It was like a manual transmission for word processors and spreadsheets.
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Exxon Enterprises was typical, investing in high-tech businesses that had nothing to do with oil exploration -- losing out in word processors and computerized speech recognition.
Though the Washington wonks worry about Bill Gates and his operating systems, word processors and spreadsheets, when it comes to software these days, consumers prefer fun and games.
The attorneys-general have complained about the means by which Microsoft has managed to dominate the lucrative market for office suites (applications that combine word processors, spreadsheets and presentation tools).
Faster rotation translates into less time loading programs, but it will offer the biggest boost to applications such as word processors and spreadsheets that frequently access multiple files on the hard drive, says IBM's Walling.
Over the same period, the number of telephone operators plunged by 64 percent, word processors and typists by 63 percent, travel agents by 46 percent and bookkeepers by 26 percent, according to Labor Department statistics.
If you're absolutely certain you're going to run only text-based word processors or spreadsheets on an IBM-compatible, or simple word processors and spreadsheets on a Mac, you can settle for a basic box with one megabyte of memory and a 40-megabyte hard drive.
The documents, they said, bore signs of coming from word-processors rather than Vietnam-era typewriters.
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The scare stories flow off the word-processors as if hard-wired into the system.
Chrome OS is designed primarily to work with applications such as e-mail, word-processors, calendars and the like that are stored in the cloud rather than on a user's hard-drive.
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