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R.I.P. AppleWorks

August 13, 2007 › Sandy McMurray | comment

The slow death of AppleWorks began in 2005 when Apple announced a new product called iWork.

"With iWork '05, we're building the successor to AppleWorks by taking advantage of the latest innovations in Mac OS X and iLife '05," said Sina Tamaddon, Apple's senior vice president of Applications. "iWork '05 makes it incredibly easy for anyone to create really great-looking documents, newsletters and presentations quickly and easily."

Now that Apple has added Numbers ("Spreadsheets the Mac way") to the iWork software suite, it seems that the successor is finally built. Last week's release of iWork '08 appears to mark the unofficial end of AppleWorks and the passing of the torch to its successor.

The closest thing to an official announcement is the disappearance of the AppleWorks web page. If you visit apple.com/appleworks today, it redirects your browser to the iWork web page.

iWork '08 doesn't have all the features available in a more expensive program like Mac Office, but it offers great user-friendly features for a lot less money -- just $79.

August 13, 2007 › Sandy McMurray | comment on this item