Editing WordPerfect (section)

===Market share===
By 1993 WordPerfect Corporation had three disadvantages as it expanded beyond word processing, according to an industry analyst: A reputation for arrogance, a perception that it was a one-product DOS software company, and shipping products late.<ref name="gerber19930125">{{Cite magazine |last=Gerber |first=Cheryl |date=1993-01-25 |title=WP Office due for net boost |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=dataperfect&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=true |access-date=2025-05-20 |magazine=InfoWorld |pages=1,83 |volume=15 |issue=4}}</ref>{{r|WP60PC.NYT}} While WordPerfect dominated the DOS word processor market, Microsoft shifted its attention toward a Windows version of Word; after Windows 3.0 was introduced, Word's market share began to grow at an extraordinary rate.  A Windows version of WordPerfect was not introduced until nearly two years after Windows 3.0, and was met with poor reviews. Word also benefited from being included in an integrated office suite package much sooner than WordPerfect.<ref>{{cite book |title = Winners, losers & Microsoft : competition and antitrust in high technology |url = https://archive.org/details/winnerslosersmic00lieb |url-access = registration |year = 1999 |first1 = Stan J. |last1 = Liebowitz |first2 = Stephen E. |last2 = Margolis |publisher = The Independent Institute |isbn = 0-945999-80-1 |lccn = 99-73414 |chapter = 8. Major Markets - Spreadsheets and Word Processors }}</ref><ref><!-- This is an author preview of the previous cited book. -->{{cite web |url = http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/book/wordprocessor/word.html |title = A. Word Processors |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100805133621/http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/book/wordprocessor/word.html |archive-date = August 5, 2010 |website = Utdallas.edu |access-date = July 17, 2013 |url-status = live }}</ref>

While WordPerfect had as much as 60% of the word processing market by the early 1990s,{{r|WP60PC.NYT}} one consultant for the legal profession in 1990 estimated that 70% of law firms used it,<ref name="fisher19900326">{{Cite magazine |last=Fisher |first=Sharon |date=1990-03-26 |title=Networking Legal Offices |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1DsEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT88&pg=PT50#v=onepage&q&f=true |access-date=2025-04-12 |magazine=InfoWorld |page=S1, S4}}</ref> 46% of respondents in a 1990 [[American Institute of Certified Public Accountants]] survey used WordPerfect,<ref name="aicpa1990">{{Cite report |url=https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1563&context=aicpa_guides |title=1990 AICPA survey of computer usage |author-link=American Institute of Certified Public Accountants |year=1990 |id=561 |access-date=2025-04-30}}</ref> and the application had more than 50% of the worldwide word-processing market in 1995, by 2000 Word had up to 95%; it was so dominant that WordPerfect executives admitted that their software needed to be compatible with Word documents to survive.<ref name=Brinkley.NYT2K>{{Cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/21/technology/state-of-the-art-it-s-a-word-world-or-is-it.html |title = It's a Word World, Or Is It? |first = Joel |last = Brinkley |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |date = September 9, 2000 |access-date = July 15, 2019 |author-link = Joel Brinkley }}</ref>