![]() ![]() ![]() I think the important factor concerning longevity of data is the ability to export/import with ease from/into as wide a variety of standard formats as possible. There are some software that have been so well made (kept simple) that they continue to be stable and work well in subsequent OS’s (Natara Bonsai comes to mind), even though they are no longer developed. >longevity of their product although I’d be happy to be convinced That does not inspire confidence in the stability or likely >honest, the websites look like they haven’t been touched in years and >looked up lots of outlining software just this morning, and to be >It also has to be software that won’t go extinct anytime soon. See Apple II.*praying* to find a good Clarisworks clone for Windows In the 1990s, when the Mac had become Apple's flagship platform, AppleWorks for the Apple II and AppleWorks GS were turned over to Quality Computers for development and marketing. Apple acquired StyleWare and rebranded its GSWorks software to AppleWorks GS for the Apple IIgs. It combined a word processor, spreadsheet and database in one program that was very popular. See iWork.ĪppleWorks came out in 1984 for the Apple II. Replacing the communications function with presentation graphics, AppleWorks 6 was the last version of AppleWorks, with its final update in early 2004. In the late 1990s, long after the Claris subsidiary had been absorbed back into Apple, ClarisWorks 5 became AppleWorks 5. Quite popular, a Windows version followed two years later. ![]() It was introduced in 1991 for the Mac as ClarisWorks (from Apple's Claris subsidiary) and included word processing, spreadsheet, database, drawing, painting and communications functions.
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