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    Microsoft Works

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    • Paid • Proprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Microsoft Works info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to Microsoft Works

    Discontinued

    Last version, 9.0, was released on September 2007.

    Microsoft Works was a basic office suite that is smaller, cheaper, and has fewer features than the Small Microsoft Office Suite iconMicrosoft Office Suite. Its core functionality included a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system.
    Latest versions had a calendar application and a dictionary while older releases included a terminal emulator.

    Works was bundled with many computers for free.

    Microsoft Works had built-in compatibility for the Microsoft Office document formats (DOC and XLS), including, but not limited to, the ability of the Works Word Processor to open Small Microsoft Word iconMicrosoft Word documents and the ability of the Works Spreadsheet to open Small Microsoft Office Excel iconMicrosoft Office Excel workbooks. Last versions included task panes but do not include significantly updated features.
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    • Spreadsheets
    • Database Management
    • Calendar
    • Word processing

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    Furgelnod
    Comment • over 10 years ago • 0 replies
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    He he he. No one like Works, I used to use it back in primary school (the late 90's), but it is now surpassed by even low-grade free software, because its when practically unchanged since then. Not to mention the availability of OpenOffice.org which is an excellent suite.

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    OmgItsTheSmartGuy
    Comment • over 10 years ago • 0 replies
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    Works... works. It's not a particularly good office suite, but it's pretty much free, despite its "commercial" label. Almost every computer comes bundled with it, so it's like a free (crappy) version of Microsoft Office.

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    Office & Productivity • Education & Reference

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    • office-suite
    • Dictionary
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    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Microsoft Works, and it has gotten 6 likes

    • Developed by Microsoft Corporation
    • Proprietary and Commercial product.
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    Microsoft Works was added to AlternativeTo by Journeyman on Apr 21, 2009 and this page was last updated Jun 4, 2020. Microsoft Works is sometimes referred to as Works.
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