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A Brief History of ClarisWorks
An anonymous user writes, "Bob Hearn, one of the original authors of ClarisWorks, has just updated his own account of the project.
It contains lots of interesting lessons for aspiring programmers."
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well, gobe tried to go opensource, but is having trouble doing so. Also, several engineers from gobe have gone to apple.
Did you read the story? Gobe went belly-up when Be did. A company that makes money by writing software for a particular OS generally does not last long if that OS disappears.
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
There's also AppleWorks for Windows, currently only available to the education customers.
There's also AppleWorks for Windows, currently only available to the education customers.
Ah, that would explain why the only entry for AppleWorks for Windows i found at amazon.co.uk was marked 'Limited Availability'...
-MT.
Office suites that come to mind:
MS Office
StarOffice
WordPerfect Office
OpenOffice
Ability Office
Sorry, but the link you provided is for an updater for existing owners of AppleWorks for Windows. My point is that you cannot buy AppleWorks for Windows, as it is no longer available, at least not to Joe Public anyway. Certainly not on Apple's site, it only offers AppleWorks for OS X.
-MT.
A hybrid Mac/Windows CD of AppleWorks 6 is available from the Apple Store for Education.
Store for Education to K-12 and higher education faculty and students.
Another big factor was that Microsoft Works documents were not compatible with Office. I used to run into this when I worked at a university help desk. People just heard "Microsoft" and assumed that Works and Office were the same thing until they brought a term paper to school (standardized on MS Office) and couldn't print it on a PC (but you could on a Macintosh with MacLink translators).