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Microsoft did that in the late 90s onwards, technology == MS Office for an entire generation. However the extent of ecosystem in the 80s and 90s is different t

• mumblemumble 5y ago
  In the 90s, if you used ClarisWorks or WordPerfect or whatever, it was no big deal. You weren't collaborating over the Internet, you were submitting printed essays to your teachers, and group essays weren't really a thing. Heck, a good chunk of kids were still exclusively submitting handwritten homework, because only wealthier families had computers at home, and free access to computers was only during study hall, and even then there weren't enough for everyone. In the 2010s, when I was in grad school, the use of GSuite was absolutely obligatory. Professors shared course materials through Google Drive. They expected you to submit your homework the same way. And, in between, on group projects, all the actual work was done in Google Docs because that was how you collaborated - simultaneous editing.