Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Oct 2009 22:04 UTC
Are you familiar with Microsoft Works? It's sort of a My First Office Suite kind of thing which includes support for Microsoft Word and Excel documents. It is usually not sold separately, but instead comes pre-installed on new OEM machines. Well, Microsoft has announced today that it will kill Microsoft Works, and replace it with Microsoft Office 2010 Starter - an ad-supported version of Office 2010.
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I didn't mean to say it was primarily Works at fault, just that the two didn't always play well together. With most businesses and schools using Office, the lack of Office compatibility was a major problem for Works users.
Besides, I recall file compatibility being a two-way problem: opening Works files in Office, and Office files in Works.