Comments on: Online Version Of Microsoft Works? http://cybernetnews.com/online-version-of-microsoft-works/ Technology News Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:26:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: ffextensionguru http://cybernetnews.com/online-version-of-microsoft-works/comment-page-1/#comment-24261 ffextensionguru Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:53:11 +0000 http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/09/22/online-version-of-microsoft-works/#comment-24261 <div id="commentquote"><a href="#comment-24221">Ryan wrote:</a><blockquote>I have always wondered why people would use Works over OpenOffice. I think that it is just a lack of publicity and maybe Google needs to team up with them like they did with Mozilla.</blockquote></div> Well, before OpenOffice it was a 'cheap' alternative to MS Office, but now with broadband so widely available people can easily get OpenOffice. Ryan wrote:
I have always wondered why people would use Works over OpenOffice. I think that it is just a lack of publicity and maybe Google needs to team up with them like they did with Mozilla.

Well, before OpenOffice it was a ‘cheap’ alternative to MS Office, but now with broadband so widely available people can easily get OpenOffice.

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/online-version-of-microsoft-works/comment-page-1/#comment-24221 Ryan Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:02:20 +0000 http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/09/22/online-version-of-microsoft-works/#comment-24221 I have always wondered why people would use Works over OpenOffice. I think that it is just a lack of publicity and maybe Google needs to team up with them like they did with Mozilla. I have always wondered why people would use Works over OpenOffice. I think that it is just a lack of publicity and maybe Google needs to team up with them like they did with Mozilla.

]]> By: Inferno_str1ke http://cybernetnews.com/online-version-of-microsoft-works/comment-page-1/#comment-24160 Inferno_str1ke Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:06:19 +0000 http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/09/22/online-version-of-microsoft-works/#comment-24160 They stopped developing it because the large PC-dumb home and business market wouldn't buy it off them :P I've never seen the point of Works - it's like a crap version of Office to put on cheap new PCs or schools or stuff like that. If you want cheap, get Open Office, if you want an online one then go to Google. They stopped developing it because the large PC-dumb home and business market wouldn’t buy it off them :P

I’ve never seen the point of Works – it’s like a crap version of Office to put on cheap new PCs or schools or stuff like that. If you want cheap, get Open Office, if you want an online one then go to Google.

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/online-version-of-microsoft-works/comment-page-1/#comment-23907 Ryan Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:26:33 +0000 http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/09/22/online-version-of-microsoft-works/#comment-23907 I know, I have always wondered why Microsoft stopped developing that because look at how popular Unix still is. I know, I have always wondered why Microsoft stopped developing that because look at how popular Unix still is.

]]> By: ffextensionguru http://cybernetnews.com/online-version-of-microsoft-works/comment-page-1/#comment-23904 ffextensionguru Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:41:45 +0000 http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/09/22/online-version-of-microsoft-works/#comment-23904 <blockquote>DOS? Isn’t that the Denial-Of-Service operating system? ;)</blockquote> Hey now, it was/is a heck of a lot more stable than windoze. :P

DOS? Isn’t that the Denial-Of-Service operating system? ;)

Hey now, it was/is a heck of a lot more stable than windoze. :P

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/online-version-of-microsoft-works/comment-page-1/#comment-23902 Ryan Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:59:21 +0000 http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/09/22/online-version-of-microsoft-works/#comment-23902 <div id="commentquote"><a href="#comment-23895">ffextensionguru wrote:</a><blockquote>I used MS Works (ain't that an oxymoron?) a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...Okay, make that early 90's back when it ran on...DOS! (okay for you people that are too young to know about DOS look it up on Wikipedia)!</blockquote></div> DOS? Isn't that the Denial-Of-Service operating system? ;) ffextensionguru wrote:
I used MS Works (ain’t that an oxymoron?) a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…Okay, make that early 90’s back when it ran on…DOS! (okay for you people that are too young to know about DOS look it up on Wikipedia)!

DOS? Isn’t that the Denial-Of-Service operating system? ;)

]]> By: ffextensionguru http://cybernetnews.com/online-version-of-microsoft-works/comment-page-1/#comment-23895 ffextensionguru Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:22:23 +0000 http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/09/22/online-version-of-microsoft-works/#comment-23895 I used MS Works (ain't that an oxymoron?) a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...Okay, make that early 90's back when it ran on...DOS! (okay for you people that are too young to know about DOS look it up on Wikipedia)! It's time back then it was a nice program and not the space/resource hog that Office is. HOWEVER, today's versions are worth it considering you can use OpenOffice which does everything Works does much better (mainly it is not Microsoft application). I used MS Works (ain’t that an oxymoron?) a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…Okay, make that early 90’s back when it ran on…DOS! (okay for you people that are too young to know about DOS look it up on Wikipedia)! It’s time back then it was a nice program and not the space/resource hog that Office is. HOWEVER, today’s versions are worth it considering you can use OpenOffice which does everything Works does much better (mainly it is not Microsoft application).

]]> By: Max http://cybernetnews.com/online-version-of-microsoft-works/comment-page-1/#comment-23883 Max Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:58:11 +0000 http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/09/22/online-version-of-microsoft-works/#comment-23883 I never actually tried Microsoft Works. The program that came with my laptop, and later my PC was Wordperfect. That program was truly bad. That's why I use OpenOffice.org now and MS Office 2007 (for now). I will definitely give this product a try if it does make it to the web. It would probably require an ActiveX control though so no Firefox user would be able to play with it. :) I never actually tried Microsoft Works. The program that came with my laptop, and later my PC was Wordperfect. That program was truly bad. That’s why I use OpenOffice.org now and MS Office 2007 (for now).

I will definitely give this product a try if it does make it to the web. It would probably require an ActiveX control though so no Firefox user would be able to play with it. :)

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