Yeah, it was a great word processor. Better than MS Word, and it had features Word still lacks like mixing styles on a single line.

What I find curious is how, as the market expanded, all these other Vendors died.

One would expect the opposite - a bigger market means more diversity. An odd thing I still don't understand.

Word docs being the medium of exchange created enough of a network effect. I remember trying to use other programs but importing/exporting to Word wasn't perfect.

Paradoxically the Internet killed the others; now printouts weren’t the standard document exchange format.

Windows 95/98 shipped with some kind of half-implemented Word, the name of which I forgot. So you could send a Word doc to anyone basically and they could read it, a great business strategy.