Nor will there ever be any upgrades. A surprising number of these programs, however, work quite well. Most developers of shareware let you try their programs for free. O.K., now, on to the hunt. Let's start with word processors, a type of program that nearly everyone has used.
Word processors are an excellent example of free stuff on the Web.
Take, for example, WordPerfect. It used to be the leading word processor. Now, its publisher, Corel, has decided to surrender in the Mac market. The company is offering the last version of WordPerfect for free on its Web site. For example, the program offers automatic sentence capitalization and correction of common spelling mistakes.