Many of the files that were supported were often imported incompletely (formatting wise) and when exported, may have many subtle changes which destroy the document over time. I suppose this is one reason why everyone just stuck to Word and gave Works the cold shoulder. ![]() Different versions of Works had different file formats – and back then, when proprietary formats ruled, that was just the “normal” headache. ![]() But the documents written in Works often had problems opening in anything else, including Office. Problem was that Works was nowhere near as featureful as Word, and it wasn’t very well compatible either.ĭocuments which were written or composed in Office could (with some limitations) be opened and edited in Works. They decided to make a cheap productivity suite to bundle with OEM machines, and it was almost always bundled because it cost nothing compared to Microsoft Word and they could claim it had an office suite. At the time, this was a parallel product to the Office suite, then sold separately, of which Microsoft Word was the (by Windows 95 time) standard. It was called Microsoft Works, and I started using it when it was for MS-DOS. What was it? Well, it’s obviously productivity software, but young guys might have never had to use it. And finally, it was almost universally hated and caused heaps of problems for end users. Another was that it was bundled with many computers. It was the best selling integrated software for Windows (according to the front of the box, but what the hell is that supposed to mean?). I think this piece of software deserves a special mention for several reasons. This will be a slightly long-winded image-heavy post – no problems if you’re on the NBN :). ![]() Thanks to his post in the Retro Give-away Thread, and his willingness to post me the items, I can show you another little bit of tech history. First of all, I’d just like to thank Kafoopsy from OCAU for making this post possible.
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