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| 93117 | 2002-10-26 01:28:00 | What were the versions of MS Word and MS Excel before Windows 95 came along ? Did they come as a suite ? |
shithead (2349) | ||
| 93118 | 2002-10-26 01:34:00 | i remember them being preinstalled on the older windows, the ones that looked like the apple platform.( Win 3.1, i'm assuuming) but they came on the platform itself (i think). cheers, v.K------------------- :D |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 93119 | 2002-10-26 01:38:00 | We had a copy of ms word from a source and i think it was word 6 .....that was for windows 3.1 | Warren (875) | ||
| 93120 | 2002-10-26 01:38:00 | They had "runtime versions" of windows. Excel 1 and 2 I think | godfather (25) | ||
| 93121 | 2002-10-26 02:04:00 | i have ms office on disk (like 30 of them!) that is for win3.1 it's office professional, version 4.3 according to the disk labels. the copyright on them is ->1994 so must be before win95! therefore, before win 95, the versions were probably 4.x and lower, and yes, they did come in the office suite. |
loser (538) | ||
| 93122 | 2002-10-26 02:05:00 | nice username by the way ;) | loser (538) | ||
| 93123 | 2002-10-26 02:19:00 | I have a copy of Works ver 2 - for DOS. As I remember, back in the DOS days there were more choices of software. The big names were: Database - Paradox Spreadsheet - Lotus 123 Word Processor - Word Perfect Works would have been one of the first packaged suites - to try and get the customers to use a more "intergrated" package - ie buy from one supplier. It would have been at about the time of Win 3.11 that Microsoft put the different programs - Word, Excel, Access - together in a bundle to try and bump off the opposition. It worked. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 93124 | 2002-10-26 03:46:00 | > Access - together in a bundle to try and bump off the > opposition. It worked. for a time, yes. Now though I think there is a definite increase in the number of people looking at alternatives. Not only computer geeks either. Your average joe is now more aware of alternatives to MS... a rise popularity in openoffice.org, staroffice etc and other free products, and the more adventurous who even abandon windows altogether and go linux... Still not enough awareness around for my liking though. Maybe if schools started using openoffice.org and intoducing kids to non-MS stuff. Not necessarily forcing them not to use MS, but give them enough to know that other things exist. What a spiel. Must have been doing too much study ;) Laters... |
loser (538) | ||
| 93125 | 2002-10-26 03:53:00 | >>for a time, yes. Where are Word Perfect, Paradox and Lotus 123 now? Microsoft's idea did work. Trouble was they packaged it in sheer greed. If they hadn't they wouldn't have the current competition. >>Maybe if schools started using ... Won't happen - at least in the foreseeable future. MS have done a deal with the Govt - $300 per school for an "All you can eat deal". No school is going to pass THAT up in a hurry! Even if things are free the teachers haven't got the time to look at alternatives when this one is so easy. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 93126 | 2002-10-26 04:03:00 | NOT a good username. I am not a prude, far from it, but that word is offensive to me on this Forum. A reflection on whats between your ears perhaps? Poppa John. | Poppa John (284) | ||
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