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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2009-10-09
MS doesn't seem to have even bothered much about backwards compatibility in Works itself. I bought Works in the mid-nineties, last upgraded to version 3, and eventually stopped using it in favour of other products. When I bought a laptop a couple of years ago, it came preinstalled with the then current version of Works. So just out of curiosity, I tried to open my old documents. No joy. I searched MS website in vain for a converter that would handle the old format.
But guess what will open my old Works files and display them properly? Open Office!