IBM Lotus Word Pro
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Lotus Word Pro is word processor software produced by IBM's Lotus Software group for use on Microsoft Windows-compatible computers and on IBM OS/2 Warp. Word Pro can be obtained as part of the Lotus SmartSuite office suite.
Word Pro was based upon Ami Pro, a product of a company called Samna, but was substantially rewritten and has a new native document format. The predecessor to Ami Pro called Amí was the first fully functional Windows word processor, released in late 1988. The Windows version of Microsoft Word would not debut until early 1989. Shortly after the release of Amí, the development team added support for tables and renamed the product Ami Pro. Lotus obtained Ami Pro to round out their office suite by acquiring Samna and developing it further, with version 3 becoming a 32-bit application available for Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2. The Windows versions of AmiPro were also bundled with Adobe Type Manager for Windows as it had poor support for scalable fonts before TrueType.
In 1994 Joe Guthridge was awarded the Windows Pioneer Award as one of seven Windows Pioneers for feedback the Amí development team gave to Microsoft during the early development of Windows.
