To be fair, office 95 was an incredible release and it had a similar increase in sophistication that windows 95 did over earlier versions of windows. The Micros

To be fair, office 95 was an incredible release and it had a similar increase in sophistication that windows 95 did over earlier versions of windows. The Microsoft works of that era, which I think was version 4, was also a big step up. I assume that is because it must share some software components with the full office suite. the later versions of office have not really added much useful functionality. The ribbon was perhaps the big change since that era, but it was largely unnecessary.