I have used MS Works for over 10 years. I bought a copy and donated it to our church when we bought our first computer a decade ago. Today, MW Works in the package with MS Word does 98% of the computer work at our church. I can teach people how to Word Process in less than an hour and how to use the spreadsheet in about one hour.
With my new computer I have Windows XP and now I'm on MSN.com as my url. If there is a problem with my HP computer or the Windows XP system, I get a little online note that I have a problem. I use the mouse and it is repaired/patched on in less than a minute. It took me about 5 minutes to learn how to use Windows XP to get on line, do my investment stuff, banking, bill paying and of course go to the fly fishing sites and Free Republic.
The messing with MS helped to trash the tech industry and trigger the overdue recession.
MY DIL started her own part time business which she runs from her home. She bought the MS Works package with MS word and was using it in a day. She will use the Quicken with Check Free on MSN to pay both her business and personal bills to prepare her quarterly tax payments.
Whoreacle and others who couldn't compete against MS gave vast sums to Jake Reno's Rat Party to try and level the playing field. That is how bad corporations and the rats do business as a fascist partnership! Davis has it down to an exact science.
Thanks for bringing this up. Decades later when we bury the last socialists, someone will write the real history on Jake Reno, Gray Davis and others as they tried to crash MS with the dark and heavy hand of the Rat controlled government!
It was MSDOS 4.0, and it was a bloody nightmare. MSDOS 3.3 was quite nice, as such things went.