A Brief History of ClarisWorks

Thanks everyone! I'm happy people still remember ClarisWorks fondly.

Although, this does make me feel old: "but i remember the days of elementary school. we all loved claris works back then". Doesn't seem so long ago to me I was fresh out of college and writing ClarisWorks.

Shoot, in college I was using Clarisworks to dial in to the school's VAX system. Wrote papers, worked on pixel graphics. Works was for suckers, as far as I was concerned.

I still have ClarisWorks on my Mac Classic and it works great.

The article is two years old but still an interesting read. The second last paragraph talks about some ex-claris then-gobe developers joining apple and working on a project they couldn't talk about. Good chances they worked/work on Pages now.

now im a college student, but i remember the days of elementary school. we all loved claris works back then.

ClarisWorks was a wonder. And I wish it was still being actively developed. Pages and Keynote are nice, but ClarisWorks was a real breakthrough in productivity. It's two great features, in my mind:

interactive frames - as previously mentioned....why don't other apps do this???

speed - it ran fast and reliably. Pages is too dang slow and feels bloated on my machine - a 12" PB. Shouldn't happen! ClarisWorks always ran fast, even on older hardware.....

I miss it.

I too miss the simplicity of frames. I grew up on Claris, and have hated MS Word becuase of it...