Comment by inigyou
4 hours ago
Microsoft Works was such a weird product because it was just half-assed Microsoft Office, but Microsoft Office already existed.
4 hours ago
Microsoft Works was such a weird product because it was just half-assed Microsoft Office, but Microsoft Office already existed.
No. Works predated Office by 3 years at least. The first versions of Works ran under ms-dos.
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.
Lotus symphony.
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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.