I remember
Claris. What a great little tool, ClarisWorks. Then Apple snarfed the company back up, and it became
AppleWorks. And let's face it, aside from an ugly port to OS X, AppleWorks
has remained the "free with your iBook" crappy Office knockoff it's been for years. But I had no idea they
still offered AppleWorks for Windows. What a world. And why bother? OpenOffice is fantastic in Windows. On the Mac it
has a few, shall we say, issues to resolve... But that's where we find it. I'd love to see the sales chart for the
Windows version of AW though. By now it must look like a chart of the adoption rate for Windows ME. I mean, the iBook
on the page isn't even a G4! Besides, iWork is a lot more fun to use, even without a spreadsheet or database tool. This
stinker debuted in 2002, and four years later needs to just go away now... And this coming from a guy with a Pentium II
in his garage running an Ubuntu LiveCD.
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Subscribe to commentsMarcusApr 14th 2006 4:51PM
"But I had no idea they still offered AppleWorks for Windows" - The Windows version is not available for purchase (try to put it in your shopping cart).
Victor Agreda, Jr.Apr 14th 2006 5:01PM
Haha, well we'll always have p2p, won't we ;)
AaronApr 17th 2006 11:43AM
Nothing wrong with AppleWorks I know lot's of People who use it[Kid's Love it]....and Free on Consumer Mac's, Open Office is nice but a little over kill for most average home users! I just hope they do a Mac to Intel Port for OSX. and don't leave it behind like VR Authoring studio. like many of the Cool App's Apple created!
And yes there is a Market for AppleWorks...I even had a few PC users ask me about this Program.
robSep 25th 2007 7:18PM
Will Open Office import (or simply paste) my Works databases intact?