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There was Microsoft Write ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Write https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Write ) but Word/Office was NEVER bundled wit
by xtracto 4y ago
There was Microsoft Write ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Write https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Write ) but Word/Office was NEVER bundled with Windows. I used Microsoft products from MS-DOS 5 to Windows 7, and that never happened.
- hnlmorg 4y agoLikewise (well a slightly earlier version of DOS since that’s what my high school ran on their ring token coax network, plus some (by that time) old college stand alones that you had to run something like ‘park’ to park the HDD head before powering off). In fact I’m pretty sure I’d written some of my course work in Word for DOS too. Feels like a life time ago now. Anyhow, there definitely was an office suite (lower case O) that was bundled with some PCs. But as another HNer points out it was Microsoft Works rather than Microsoft Office. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works (After reading the above link, Im surprised to see Works lasted so long. The last time I ever saw it “in the wild” was back on Windows 3.11)
- xtracto 4y agoI remember having a hard time looking to open .WKS files from some accountants here in my country who refused to stop using Works for a long time.
- Lammy 4y agoIt's sneaky how Works muddied the water for Lotus 1-2-3 which already used `.wks` for its WorKSheet files: http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3