They always seemed so scrappy back in the 90s with their giant boxes and included libraries of clip art.
One of the more novelty twitter accounts I found recently posts images from one of their 10,000 item collections: https://twitter.com/clipart1994bot
However, we are going to transition to latest version costs money and two feature set reduced versions gets given with hardware and free.
Having 3 versions to support is too much overhead for a small company. And giving away old versions of our products with issues that we know we've solved gives a bad image of our software to new users we are trying to up-sell to the latest version.
From a business perspective, the older versions are used by older or larger companies that couldn't or didn't want to upgrade, they have money to shell out and should be charged more.
The idea is to grow the user base as large as possible and then sell them the latest version or other products.
Give away a version with 3rd party hardware is to grow the user base to new markets. Let somebody else handle the marketing / distribution and get their users. Sure lots people throw away the CD of bundled software when they buy something, but a decent number still install it.
Give away free is same idea. People love free stuff and will download it. Then hopefully they enjoy it and upgrade to get more features.
I'm really curious who drew all of these pieces. 10k images is a ton of work...
[1] https://twitter.com/Clipart1994bot/status/107548368574555750...
https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.3788963,-75.7454491,3a,77.5y,...
They seem to have pulled the Corel logo down some time this year. That makes me a little sad, as it was always one of those little landmarks that reminded me I was almost home when I lived in downtown Ottawa.
Some were shocked to learn Corel was still around, whereas I'm shocked to learn Winzip is still around. Especially since Windows finally got around to adding native zip64 support in what...XP SP3 I think it was?
EDIT: Even more shocking: they own both WordPerfect and Quattro Pro both of which are, apparently, still around. Absolutely stunned.
The employer was so cheap that they they didn't want to pay for WinZIP, so we'd wait n number of seconds before the file would zip. Then we'd wait n+1 seconds until it was an hour and a half wait.
IIRC, they kept Kai's Power Tools alive well past its usefulness.
It worked for CA for a while, and then...it didn't? I'd have to go look up what happened to them, because they one day just weren't on my radar anymore.
Don't you mean stdout?
That said, Corel added a kind of adware to PSP, where it will display promotions for upgrades to the new version of Paint Shop Pro even when you're not using the program. I really wish there was an easy way to disable it, but I'm sure their metrics show it is effective. Parallels are already doing a version of that (but only when you launch the program), and now even Apple itself is using notifications to advertise products & distribute discounts [1]. There's probably no avoiding it now.
[1] https://9to5mac.com/2018/12/18/apple-push-notifications-comp...
It sounds like it's gotten a little worse.
From memory, v9 isn't compatible with Windows 10 (the installer won't work properly), so don't feel you're missing anything.
Serif's Affinity Photo is giving PSP real competition, but Affinity is still quite buggy in some ways on Windows. I'd probably recommend Corel PSP 2018 / 2019 over Affinity for the moment. Paint.NET is great too.
It's a shame that so many tried to re-bundle Paint.net in sleazy ways... though the ads on their own site are horrible, and I don't fault the main dev(s). I just would love to see Pinta or anything else become as easy to use. I may try to dig up PSP7 and see if I can find a key for it.
I couldn't get the modem to work and the installer didn't add a boot option for the Windows 98 partition (LILO bootloader), so my family was understandably pretty pissed off. I ended up figuring out how to restore the Windows MBR, and eventually figured out how to dual boot.
To this day, when I mention Corel Linux was my first Linux distribution people tend to think I'm confused since "Corel makes graphics software, not Linux distributions!"
I doubt they ever claimed Linux driver support so it's not their fault people weren't able to get them working.
Not sure how to dig charts now.
These words don't sound right.
"Corel Linux, also called Corel LinuxOS, was a Debian-based operating system made by Corel that began beta testing on September 21, 1999[1] and was released to the public on November 15, 1999." ... "Corel later discontinued the distribution, but did not remove the former Corel Open Source Development website until March 2002."
So at least I did not just dream it. Did you live through that era? It was very similar to the blockchain hype but lasted a bit longer.
Edit: Confirming the Linux hype:
"Red Hat's initial public offering was on August 11, 1999. A total of 6,000,000 shares were priced at $14 ($7 post-split) per share."[2]
On January 10th, 2000, four months later the price peaked at $140, which would have netted you one of the fastest 10 baggers in history. By July of 2001 it was under $4
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Linux [2]https://investors.redhat.com/ir-resources/investor-faqs/when...
> Geeknet, Inc. owns the online retailer ThinkGeek and is a subsidiary of GameStop. The company was formerly known as VA Research, VA Linux Systems, VA Software, and SourceForge, Inc.
> VA Research was one of the first vendors to build and sell personal computer systems installed with the Linux operating system, as an alternative to more expensive Unix workstations that were available at the time. It was the largest vendor of pre-installed Linux computers, with approximately 20% of the Linux hardware market.
> Intel and Sequoia, along with Silicon Graphics and other investors, added an additional $25 million investment in June 1999.
> In fiscal 1999, the company's sales grew to $17.7 million, up from $5.5 million in fiscal 1998. In fiscal 2000, the company's sales were $120.3 million.
> owned Slashdot from 2000 till 2012
They were also bundling/selling Wordperfect Office for Linux at that time, since the only real competitor on Linux was StarOffice which later purchased by Sun and open sourced - and later because of the acquisition by Oracle, was forked into LibreOffice. Hard to believe that was all nearly 20 years ago now.
Oh my.
I do know WP was popular in Law Offices long after Word had taken the market. Not sure if that is still the case.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/28/victory_for_microso...
https://support.corel.com/hc/en-us/articles/215963808-How-to...
It was also expensive and so pirated a LOT.
There's really no iPad equivalent to Corel Painter, but Corel registered the procreate.com domain to redirect to their Painter product page (Procreate (procreate.art) by the Australian company Savage is one of the strongest digital art applications on the iPad).
Corel has also recently purchased Gravit Designer, which presumably will stand as their main digital design app that competes with Sketch and Adobe XD.
(72167,3530 here!)
The other day there was a post about Lotus Notes. Now this. I'm not sure I can handle all the nostalgia.