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Seems like there were three options: 1. Ship Word with Windows and not get paid for it, even though they had hundreds of engineers working on it. 2. Ship no
by 13of40 3y ago
Seems like there were three options:
1. Ship Word with Windows and not get paid for it, even though they had hundreds of engineers working on it.
2. Ship no word processor with Windows, and make the end user find one on their own.
3. Ship a basic one and let the user upgrade to Word if they needed something more.
At the time with option 2, it's not like you're going to hit google and download some FOSS solution - you would need to go to the computer store and pay $200 for something in a box off the shelf.
I'm thinking option 3 was a good middle ground, and a win-win for MS and the customer.
- bragr 3y agoMicrosoft had a cheaper office suite that they sold as a middle ground. I remember the "poor" kids in highschool couldn't edit their papers in certain ways at home and had to do some things on school computers instead. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works
- xattt 3y ago> I remember the "poor" kids in highschool couldn't edit their papers in certain ways at home The irony was that Microsoft included Microsoft Money in the Works suite, likely to give an aspiration of saving and making enough in order to upgrade to the Office suite.
- phonon 3y agoMS Works was supposed to fill that role...[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works [0]