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Re:Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 cros... by inigyou on Saturday July 25, 2026 @02:20PM (#49050163)
Microsoft Works was such a weird product because it was just half-assed Microsoft Office, but Microsoft Office already existed.
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Re:Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 cros... by loloquwowndueo on Saturday July 25, 2026 @02:22PM (#49050176)
No. Works predated Office by 3 years at least. The first versions of Works ran under ms-dos.
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Re:Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 cros... by SoftTalker on Saturday July 25, 2026 @02:37PM (#49050308)
Several other vendors had office "works" suites too. ClarisWorks, AppleWorks, seems like there were some others for the variety of platforms in the 80s/90s but I can't recall them offhand.
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Re:Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 cros... by loloquwowndueo on Saturday July 25, 2026 @02:54PM (#49050463)
Lotus symphony.
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Re:Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 cros... by throwaway2037 on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:11PM (#49051612)
As I understand, Microsoft Works was primary aimed at retail buyers, but Microsoft Office was aimed at enterprises users. MW was probably half the cost of MO. It is market segmentation, as I see it.
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