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Article: Microsoft wants to give you the Works for Windows. (Microsoft Works for Windows, integrated software from Microsoft Corp.) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
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- Computer Shopper
- Article date:
- February 1, 1992
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Microsoft Works for Windows is the Windows bargain of the year. Put simply, Works demolishes the economic barrier between real people and real Windows power.
Works for Windows is an integrated-software package that makes Windows computing comprehensible by everyone; it offers all the power most users need at two-fifths the price of popular stand-alone packages. Competitive upgrades of $79 and special academic prices actually make Works for Windows cheaper than the Windows environment in which it runs.
Last May, Spinnaker Software Corp. released its $199 PFS: WindowWorks 1.0, which offers roughly the same type of modules as Microsoft Works for Windows. ...