On 2025/8/11 14:19:6, VanguardLH wrote:
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Microsoft keeps moving the target on the names of their products. Oh
yes, Outlook new (yes, the lowercased "new' is part of the product name) replaced Mail (which had several incarnations across Windows versions). Microsoft keeps moving the target on the names of their bundles, too.
There are product names now which differ from what they were called
before. Gee, all I have to do is change the name plate on my car, and
presto chango I have a new car. Changing names is how Microsoft hopes
to con users something is new.
I couldn't agree more. Didn't help when they had (maybe still have) a
hosting etc. service/company called Outlook, as well as software called
Outlook (and Outlook Express, too).
They once had an office suite called Works, which included a word
processor, a spreadsheet, and I think one or two others (something
graphical maybe?). Not only was it substantially cheaper than Office
(which was so expensive you could buy the individual parts, like Word
and Excel, separately at that time), but it also was much less demanding
in resource requirements. It did most of what the average home user
required. Towards the end of its existence, it came with Word rather
than its original WP, since WP was the part most users used. I'm pretty
sure Works was finally killed off because it was eating into the
profits/sales of the full Office.
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