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Now Pantry 2003 of Microsoft the (concise) software news dominates to hit courses alternatives the danger in the oblivion. Corel offers them to me what tegengas: the software business, partly in hands of MS, expects them to me to have against April a new version of its Pantry-package ready.

WordPerfect 11 brings changed XML-integration and a narrower connection with Outlook. The large trumps become however attractive licenses with which the Canadian business aims specifically on firms that are disaffectedly about Microsofts veelbesproken licentiemodel.

In the newest WordPerfect lies the emphasis on so-called collaborative tools, The easy parts of documents so that different men to it can work. XML plays permit to hit in that an important role, because that technology data on a standard manner on and to open in someone else application.

This is the same path that Microsoft takes; also in Pantry 2003 state the samenwerkfunctionaliteit on base of XML centrally. Other new positions in WordPerfect 11 are a publishfunction to HTML and PDF, the cooperation with Outlook and an update of the Quattro Per-spreadsheetsoftware.

Corel hopes commit to throw especially with its licentiemodel high eyes by and to win so a part of its vergane glory back. For although WordPerfect long time the absolute market leader was as for text assimilation, is that titles for years convincing at Microsoft handed about.

Now Microsoft a controversial licentiemodel handles, commit pay by which each year again for a complete package and obliges must upgraden, has Corel possible a chance. Concise customers can by the Canadian software firm choose which parts of the office suite they want to pay thus per chosen part. In the U.S. becomes that moreover supported through an action by which commit the software a year long free of charge may try.

Of Corel Pantry 11 appeared two versions: the Standard Edition and the Professional Edition. That last one is divided only among a licentiemodel.

Sandeep Junnarkar, CNet