Corel to Offer New Creative Experiences with Windows 7


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Corel Corporation today announced that it is working with Microsoft Corp. on Windows 7. Corel (www.corel.com) is committed to delivering its core applications for the Windows 7 platform and is currently developing its next generation of creative consumer products that will offer an all-new, hands-on experience built on the power of Windows Touch technology. Offering unprecedented stability and performance along with new features such as Windows Touch, JumpLists and Libraries, Windows 7 delivers exciting new possibilities for Corel’s software development teams while providing consumers with a more engaging and expressive computing environment.

“Corel has a long history of ‘firsts’ when developing software for the latest Windows platforms. With the upcoming introduction of Windows 7, Microsoft’s new operating system will redefine how people think about computing. Drawing on our customer research, we’re taking advantage of the solid performance and powerful touch capabilities Windows 7 offers to turn the typical user experience of mouse clicks and menus on its head, completely changing how users interact with creative software,” said Joe Roberts, Executive Vice President, Products for Corel.

“Corel’s consumer graphics and digital media products are ideally suited to take advantage of the new hands-on capabilities in Microsoft’s latest platform. We believe the user should always be at the center of the creative process and Windows 7 will enable us to eliminate the traditional software menu model to offer a new environment that fosters more natural and connected interactions between people and their content – whether it is a favorite photo, video or digital painting.”

Microsoft recently introduced the Windows 7 Release Candidate and Corel is working closely with the company to prepare for the debut of this new operating system later this year.

We are excited to see Corel’s commitment to deliver a suite of solutions for Windows 7,” said Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President, Windows Product Management at Microsoft Corp. “Corel’s adoption of key Windows 7 technologies such as jumplists, touch and libraries is a great example of the kind of innovation that is possible on Microsoft’s upcoming Windows release.

For more information about Corel’s plans for Windows 7, please visit

www.corel.com/windows7.

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Corel Corporation today announced that it is working with Microsoft Corp. on Windows 7.

Bad wording there. No thank you, I wouldn't want to see Corel anywhere near Windows 7's development.

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Corel, the company INFAMOUS for abandoning applications on an OS release by OS release basis. They buy up companies, shovelware their products, and then run them into the ground until unsupported and hence valueless.

Always leaving thousands of loyal users in the lurch, I for one will NEVER support their products ever again after seeing what they did to Ulead's Media Studio Pro, for example.

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Corel, the company INFAMOUS for abandoning applications on an OS release by OS release basis.

That's because they always reimplement basic OS functionality, UI behavior, etc in their apps in some non-standard fashion, instead of using existing OS facilities, which then invariably breaks at the next OS release. And then their hacks cost so much to get working again in the next OS (in term of development/testing time and effort) that they're not worth fixing, taking the revenue generated by those apps into consideration.

IMO, they have no business trying to influence what direction Touch should take. Or anything else for that matter.

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Yes, Corel is a perfect example of the penny-wise pound-foolish model of bad business. If they'd hire the good programmers to do it right in the first place, their software would have a longer shelf life and lower maintenance/upgrade costs due to bug fixes, etc.

The company has been running this same cycle for over a decade, so I am sure this is a issue with the very top tier management, and thus I don't recommend anyone buy any of their products ever again.

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