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Re:Discontinued Microsoft Products by eitland on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:35PM (#21776778)
Actually some things were better in Works, I especially remember being able to embed parts of a spreadsheet seemlessly into a text processor document and be able to update it one place. That was amazing back in 1995.
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Re:Discontinued Microsoft Products by tech-historian on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:54PM (#21776958)
And importantly, Microsoft Works came bundled for free with new PCs. MS Office was not.
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Re:Discontinued Microsoft Products by SweetLlamaMyth on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:50PM (#21777463)
Wasn't it WordPad that shipped free, and Works or Word that were upsells?
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Re:Discontinued Microsoft Products by Spooky23 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @06:10PM (#21777627)
Works sold for $30, but was often bundled by OEMs.
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Re:Discontinued Microsoft Products by duskwuff on Thursday December 12, 2019 @06:08PM (#21777612)
WordPad was included with Windows.

Works was included with computers. You could also buy it separately, but a lot of users got it with their computer.

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