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Microsoft office or Microsoft woks?
Name: Naco Date: March 8, 2003 at 08:50:45 Pacific OS: Win9x,WinME,WinNT,Win2000 CPU/Ram: XP 2000+
Comment:
Whats the difference between Microsoft Office and Microsoft Works ?
Name: Bobthearch Date: March 8, 2003 at 16:41:17 Pacific
Reply:
Microsoft Office is a group of professional office applications: Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. There are also different versions of Office with different applications included.
Microsoft Works is a cheap, one program does everything piece of software. Works is suitable for home users that don't need the full-feature programs.
Check out Microsoft.com for more details.
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Response Number 2
Name: A Certain TH Date: March 10, 2003 at 05:47:14 Pacific
Reply:
Hi
Just in case you were thinking of buying an office suite - don't part with any money for Works (which is tragically stunted) simply because it is made by the same people who make Office (which is great).
I have heard very good things about this FREE suite, which is getting a huge amount of community support.
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