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Word Pro was available as part of the Lotus SmartSuite office suite. [2] Word Pro was based upon Ami Pro (originally published by Samna), [2] but was substantially rewritten (including a new native document format). The predecessor to Ami Pro, Amí, was released in 1988, and was the first fully functional Windows word processor.
SmartSuite is no longer supported or maintained. SmartSuite used to be in maintenance mode, and supported with fixes and fixpacks on Windows 2000 and Windows XP.SmartSuite is not officially supported by IBM on versions of Windows after XP, but it does work very well on both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Joe Guthridge led the development of Samna Amí, the first Windows word processor, which was subsequently renamed Lotus Word Pro somewhat after Samna was acquired by Lotus Software. Among the strengths of Ami Pro, successor to Samna Amí, were scientific writing, including equation editing. [5]
Lotus was founded in 1982 by partners Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs with backing from Ben Rosen. [5] Lotus' first product was presentation software for the Apple II known as Lotus Executive Briefing System.
At the time that Ami Pro was introduced, the word processing market was dominated by WordPerfect. Both Ami Pro and Microsoft Word made inroads into WordPerfect's market share. Eventually, Microsoft Word overtook WordPerfect as the dominant player and Ami Pro was discontinued. IBM, the present owner of the Lotus brand, renamed it Lotus Word Pro.
EZ Word: The First XLEnt Word Processor: FullWrite Professional: Mac: geoWrite: component of GEOS: Gypsy: Homepak: Commodore 64 and Atari: IBM 3730: IBM Lotus Symphony: Interleaf: now called QuickSilver JWPce: Japanese word processor, designed primarily for the English speaker who is reading or writing in Japanese. Last release was in 2005 ...
Lotus Manuscript is a discontinued MS-DOS-based word processor from Lotus Development [1] [2] first released in 1986. [3] The software was distributed on eight 5¼" diskettes and retailed for US$495. [ 3 ]
Samna was a competitor to WordStar and MultiMate in the DOS market for word processors in the 1980s. [1] Based in large part on the look and feel of the Lanier enterprise word processing system's software, Samna was targeted at businesses who had used the Lanier system but were interested in moving to lower-cost PC-based word processing.