Editing WordPerfect (section)

===Microsoft vs Novell===
[[Image:Novell WordPerfect and Quattro Pro users guides.jpg|thumb|left|Novell-era user guides for WordPerfect and Quattro Pro]]
Compounding WordPerfect's troubles were issues associated with the release of the first [[32-bit application|32-bit]] version, '''WordPerfect 7''', intended for use on [[Windows 95]]. In the lawsuit 'Novell v. Microsoft', Novell argued that these problems were due to anti-competitive acts by Microsoft.<ref name="NovellvMSUtah2-302.pdf"/>

While WordPerfect 7 contained notable improvements over the [[16-bit application|16-bit]] WordPerfect for Windows 3.1, it was released in May 1996, nine months after the introduction of Windows 95 and [[Microsoft Office 95]] (including [[Word for Windows|Word 95]]). The initial release suffered from notable stability problems. WordPerfect 7 also did not have a Microsoft "Designed for Windows 95" logo. This was important to some Windows 95 software purchasers as Microsoft set standards for application design, behavior, and interaction with the operating system. To make matters worse, the original release of WordPerfect 7 was incompatible with [[Windows NT]], hindering its adoption in many professional environments. The "NT Enabled" version of WordPerfect 7, which Corel considered to be Service Pack 2, was not available until Q1-1997, over six months after the introduction of [[Windows NT 4.0]], a year and a half after the introduction of Office 95 (which supported Windows NT out of the box), and shortly after the introduction of Office 97.