alt Hacker NewsMicrosoft Works was such a weird product because it was just half-assed Microsoft Office, but Microsoft Office already existed.
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throwaway2037 • yesterday at 9:11 PM
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.
No. Works predated Office by 3 years at least. The first versions of Works ran under ms-dos.