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Corel to unveil WordPerfect Lightning beta

Dawn Kawamoto CNET News.com

Published: 27 Feb 2007 08:47 GMT

Corel plans on Tuesday to formally unveil a public beta of its WordPerfect Lightning productivity application, designed to serve as a key component of its online services model.

WordPerfect Lightning beta, a free, downloadable word-processing and note-taking software application, aims to provide a new distribution and online services model for Corel WordPerfect Office.

The WordPerfect beta builds on Corel's earlier efforts to create a hybrid platform that combines desktop and web applications, such as its modular components. The modular Corel components are designed to work from an online environment, while the platform remains on the desktop.

Like the modular components, WordPerfect Lightning beta aims to offer a tightly integrated productivity platform comprised of both online and desktop components. WordPerfect Lightning offers free access to such premium online services as collaboration and data storage.

"By blending desktop and web applications in WordPerfect Lightning, Corel is taking a truly hybrid approach to computing," Richard Carriere, Corel's general manager for office productivity, said in a statement.

The software features four components: Navigator, the Viewer, Lightning Notes window and Connector.

Navigator serves as a central repository for organising content, while the Viewer acts as a reading tool to view such documents in Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, or WordPerfect file formats.

Lightning Notes window is designed as a lightweight word processor and note-taking utility. And Connector, which is powered by Joyent, is a suite of web-based applications, such as email, calendars and address books.

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