A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003)

Re:A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003) by valuearb on Monday August 17, 2020 @11:31AM (#24188192)

Apple still has a Vancouver office and it’s still responsible for some of its consumer software. Not sure, but I believe Numbers and Pages?

Also one correction. MacWrite Pro wasn’t held up by stringent quality control, it was held up by a poor architecture. The project lead told me all document state was stored in globals with unrestricted access. Fixing a bug in one area frequently created a bug elsewhere.

I worked on the windows version of ClarisWorks. I remember the Vancouver boys were really focused, they were the most hard edged, hard driving team at Claris, which I found refreshing.

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Re:A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003) by Doctor_Fegg on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:10PM (#24192147)

MacWrite Pro was a UI dream though. Slow as molasses, but so intuitive. You could do serious page layout on it with ease. One of the best designed pieces of software I’ve ever used.

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Re:A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003) by EricE on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:41PM (#24194067)

Especially compared to Word in the same era. In fact that infamous screen shot where the toolbars take up 90% of the screen was Mac Word 5.

I should get the IIfx out and see if it still boots :p

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Re:A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003) by mrpippy on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:54PM (#24191949)

I think iWork engineering is (also) in Pittsburgh.

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