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Originally Posted by Sapphireho
Those who can remember the early years, there were some really great programs, for example Lotus 123, WordPerfect, and a few browsers. Then Microsoft made inferior copies of these programs, and offered them for free with their operating system, putting the competition out of business.
Good times...
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Microsoft never offered any of the Office products for free, at least not at the corporate level. Companies chose to buy them once MS bundled them together and made them a good deal.
Lotus screwed up by trying to make one product that was all things to all office workers (Symphony) and WordPerfect waited way too long to get on the GUI train and did not have the other interoperable products needed at the time.