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Corel Corporation To Distribute Mozilla® Firefox® With Corel® WordPerfect® Office X3 – Home Edition


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Adds World’s Leading Open Source Web Browser To New Version of Corel Consumer Productivity Software

Ottawa, Canada - November 09, 2006, Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE) today announced that Mozilla® Firefox® will be bundled with Corel’s new consumer productivity package, Corel® WordPerfect® Office X3 – Home Edition 2007.

With the addition of the award-winning, free, and open source Mozilla Firefox browser, users of WordPerfect Home Edition 2007 can enjoy a better web experience and browse the Web with confidence, protected from viruses, spyware and popups. Firefox is a faster browser, providing quick page loading and more accurate display of complex websites. The easily-customized Firefox also provides automatic updates, tabbed browsing, integrated pop-up blocking, live bookmarks, accessibility features, strong security and integrated search.

A best-of-breed software collection for the home, Corel WordPerfect Office X3 – Home Edition 2007 includes easy-to-use software for word processing, spreadsheets, Internet security, photo and video editing and organizing, CD/DVD creation and web browsing.

“Firefox is a perfect fit for WordPerfect Home Edition 2007. Firefox has a reputation for ease of use, security and user experience that closely mirrors the characteristics that attract customers to Corel WordPerfect Office X3, ” said Richard Carriere, general manager of productivity for Corel. “Consumers want the freedom to adopt the very best software for their home PC, but it takes time and effort to shop around to get the best products out there. WordPerfect Home Edition 2007 does the work for you, providing a best of breed collection of software for the home and an unbeatable value. Firefox helps us do that.”

“By including Firefox, Corel yet again demonstrates their ongoing commitment to providing people with great software experiences,” said Christopher Beard, vice president of products at Mozilla. “We’re pleased to work with partners like Corel to introduce our free, open source Firefox Web browser to even more people worldwide.”

Anchored by Corel’s powerful and easy to use word processor WordPerfect, Corel WordPerfect Office X3 – Home Edition 2007 packs several hundred dollars worth of software into one package for just $79 US / $99 CDN.

Corel WordPerfect Office X3 – Home Edition 2007 is now shipping to resellers nationwide and is available online at www.corel.com. Mozilla Firefox is also available for download at www.getfirefox.com.

For more information on Corel WordPerfect Office X3 please visit www.wordperfect.com.

About Corel Corporation
Corel is a leading global packaged software company with over 40 million users. The Company provides full-featured, easy-to-use productivity, graphics and digital imaging software and enjoys a favorable market position among consumers and small businesses. The Company’s award-winning product portfolio features popular, globally recognized brands, including CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, Corel® Paint Shop® Pro, Corel® Painter™, Corel DESIGNER®, Corel® WordPerfect® Office, WinZip®, and iGrafx®. With hundreds of industry awards for leadership in software innovation, design and value, Corel’s products have built a loyal following of customers and partners around the globe. Corel’s products are sold in over 75 countries through an international network of resellers and retailers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and Corel’s global websites.

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