NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/mac/apps/17315

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From: [e-mail] (Robert W. Quesal)
Subject: Re: Clarisworks or MS Works?
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Organization: Educational Computing Network
References: <[e-mail]> <mike_steiner-131192131315@192.35.50.131> <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:45:36 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David A Willcox) writes:
[quoting Mike Steiner:]
>>Microsoft Works had a 90% market share before ClarisWorks was introduced.
>>Now ClarisWorks has a 75% market share.  Some of this is due to marketting
>>activities, but most of it is due to the solidity of the product.
>
>How much of this had to do with the facts that (1) ClarisWorks came
>out several months before MSWorks 2.0, and (2) Claris and Apple have a
>rather closer relationship than MS and Apple.  (How many copies of
>MSWorks have been "given away" with Performas?)

I think you mean MSWorks *3.0* not 2.0.  I've used MSWorks 2.0, 3.0, and
ClarisWorks, and ClarisWorks is by far the best.  In many cases, dealers
are now trying to "push" MSWorks onto their Mac customers--that may
change the market share figures a bit in the short term, but the quality
of the products will ensure that CW keeps a large market share over the
long term.


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Robert W. Quesal, Ph.D.           [e-mail]
Western Ill. U.                   [e-mail]
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