Corel WordPerfect Lightning Strikes ThumbDrives

February 27th, 2007

Corel is introducing today the first public Beta of their new WordPerfect Lightning software. The application is small at 20MB and intended to be downloaded to a USB drive and carried with you on the go. Once installed, Lightning gives you full word processing capabilities and note taking ability that ties into the full WordPerfect Office suite. Corel says the software addresses a gap in the work processing market and is designed to accelerate productivity tasks and offers free access to online storage services.

The company believes that by leveraging the desktop and web based services we can be more productive. Users of the application get 200MB of free online storage space and coworkers can share data and collaborate on projects online. Lightning sounds a lot like Google spreadsheets to me, which still needs a few kinks ironed out. Naturally there are lots of upsell opportunities for Corel here so if you use it expect to see lots of ads trying to get you to upgrade.

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