A nostalgic, hard-nosed look at how WordPerfect and Microsoft Word battled for office dominance in the 1990s - features, strategies, and why some users still love WordPerfect.
Microsoft Works was many families’ first taste of digital productivity: inexpensive, compact, and bundled with countless PCs. This post traces its rise in the 1990s, what made it uniquely useful for home users, why it ultimately faded away, and what its decline tells us about today's productivity landscape.
A look back at Windows Write - the simple word processor bundled with early Windows - its role in shaping user expectations, file formats and UI patterns, and why it still sparks nostalgia among early PC users.