I didn't know Apple had done any development on Appleworks since the
onset of OS X?

Wednesday, August 15, 20075:31 PMAnne Cartwrightcartwrig at aye.net

>The following was just released out on macNN 
>(http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/08/15/appleworks.discontinued):
>
>Apple discontinues AppleWorks
>
>Without grand publicity, Apple has decided to stop all development on 
>AppleWorks, its formerly iconic productivity suite. The information was 
>quietly passed on to resellers last week, who were told that the 
>software had reached an "End of Life" stage. Sales have been officially 
>stopped, and trying to visit the AppleWorks website redirects visitors 
>to the page for the recently-launched iWork '08. iWork handles many of 
>the same tasks as AppleWorks (spreadsheets, presentations et al.), while 
>the latter has not been updated for some time.
>
>
>iWork needs a database to satisfy my needs; or maybe I will half to 
>learn how to use FileMaker Pro.
>
>Anne Cartwright
>
>
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