What was the killer application that every household would agree created a demand the IBM PC?

Question

What was the killer application that every household would agree created a demand for the new IBM PC? By far it was the main application responsible for creating a demand for the PC for the home market. Hint it held a 65% ownership of the DOS market for its type of software by 1992, and made its founder nearly a billion dollars by the early 1990’s. Does anyone know? Without this residential demand for the PC caused by this application there may have never been an Internet Revolution for the priviate individual. Kind of blows your mind when you figure this out.

gAmE bOi is getting very close with his answer "I would bet it's the word processor. We needed something after the typewriter became obsolete." So who knows the actual answer?

I am looking for the company's name for this word processor, do you know it?

WordPerfect is the winning answer. Thanks to the word processor us consumers of the 1980's went out and got an IBM PC or an IBM clone. With out the technology behind the word processor the computers of today would have not evolved into the communications tool it is today. Think about it.

Answer 1

Wordperfect - the last good version running in DOS was version 5.1 - it was the nechmark of well made word processing software - although failed miserably when they tried to make a gui version for windows.

Answer 2

I would bet it's the word processor. We needed something after the typewriter became obsolete.

Answer 3

I think it was Lotus, the Excel-type spreadsheet that let you organize data and compute it automatically.

Answer 4

I would have thought that it was the Windows operating system.

Answer 5

calculator?