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Bill Gates and his Head of Acquisitions, Alan M. Williams was planning to emulate the success of AppleWorks, a similar product for Apple II computers. Microsoft Works originated as MouseWorks, an integrated spreadsheet, word processor and database program, designed for the Macintosh by ex-Apple employee Don Williams and Rupert Lissner. Mainstream support for the final standalone and suite release ended on Octoand January 8, 2013, respectively. Works was smaller, less expensive, and had fewer features than Microsoft Office and other major office suites available at the time. Because of its low cost ($40 retail, or as low as $2 OEM), companies frequently pre-installed Works on their low-cost machines. Works was available as a standalone program, and as part of a namesake home productivity suite. Later versions had a calendar application and a dictionary while older releases included a terminal emulator. Its core functionality included a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system. Microsoft Works is a discontinued productivity software suite developed by Microsoft and sold from 1987 to 2009. MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Classic Mac OS

Microsoft works 9 free download for windows 10