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AppleWorks refers to two different office suite products, both of which are now discontinued. The first program known as AppleWorks was an integrated software package for the Apple II platform, released in 1984 by Apple Computer. The second program known as AppleWorks was a renamed version of ClarisWorks, a Mac and Windows office suite program originally created by the former Apple subsidiary Claris, which debuted in 1998, after Apple's elimination of the Claris subsidiary. It was bundled it with all consumer-level Macs sold by Apple. On August 15, 2007, AppleWorks reached end-of-life status, and was no longer sold. Word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications with capabilities similar to AppleWorks are currently sold as the iWork suite. == "AppleWorks Classic" (Apple II version, 1984–1991) == Developed by Rupert Lissner, the original AppleWorks was one of the first integrated office suites for personal computers, featuring a word processor, spreadsheet, and database merged into a single program. It was released in 1984 as a demonstration product for the new 128k models of the Apple II line. Apple had previously published Lissner's QuickFile, a database program that closely resembled what became the AppleWorks database module. An Apple III version of AppleWorks, which used the same file formats, was dubbed III E-Z Pieces and marketed by Haba Systems. All three AppleWorks programs have the same user interface and exchange data through a common clipboard. Previous Apple II applications programs had mainly been designed with the older II/II+ line in mind, which only had 48k of RAM and 40-column text without an add-on card, thus resulting in them having limited capabilities. Appleworks was for comparison designed for the IIe/IIc models which had more RAM, standard 80-column text, an optional numeric keypad, cursor keys, and the new ProDOS operating system in place of DOS 3.3 which had been standard on 48k machines. Because it was generally considered unethical for OS developers to also sell application software (something that Digital Research founder Gary Kildall had criticized Microsoft for), Apple avoided any advertisement of the program. AppleWorks nevertheless debuted at #2 on Softalk's monthly bestseller list and quickly became the best-selling software package on any computer, ousting even Lotus 1-2-3 from the top of the industry-wide sales charts.〔(Apple II History ) AppleWorks page: Apple's "Promotion" of AppleWorks (Retrieved on June 13, 2009)〕 Apple's software subsidiary Claris sold the one millionth copy of AppleWorks in December 1988. Apple and Lissner provided technical information on modifying AppleWorks, helping to create a substantial market for third-party accessories and support. ''Compute!'s Apple Applications'' reported in 1987 that "''AppleWorks'' has become a frontier for software developers", and predicted that "Soon, the best software on the Apple II computer line will require ''AppleWorks''". The September 1986 issue of ''inCider'', for example, contained two AppleWorks-related articles; advertisements for two AppleWorks-related expansion cards from Applied Engineering, an application that promised to let AppleWorks run on an Apple II Plus with an 80-column display board, an AppleWorks-dedicated newsletter called ''The Main Menu'', and an AppleWorks-related product from Beagle Bros.; many other advertisements that mentioned AppleWorks; and a column criticizing companies that developed AppleWorks-related products instead of new ones ("thinks small and innovates nothing"). One of the most successful was the TimeOut series from Beagle Bros. TimeOut developers Alan Bird, Randy Brandt and Rob Renstrom were involved in developing AppleWorks 3.0 and eventually AppleWorks incorporated numerous TimeOut functions.〔(AppleWorks ). Web.archive.org. Retrieved on July 17, 2013.〕 TimeOut developers Randy Brandt and Dan Verkade created AppleWorks 4.0 and 5.0 for Quality Computers. Apple released version 2.0 in 1986 with the Apple IIGS, and then a year later the program was published by Claris. Claris contracted with Beagle Bros. to upgrade AppleWorks to version 3.0 in 1989, then turned its attention to producing Macintosh and Windows software, letting AppleWorks languish. Claris did, however, agree to license the AppleWorks trademark to Quality Computers, which released AppleWorks 4.0 in 1993 and AppleWorks 5.0 in 1994. The 8-bit AppleWorks is sometimes referred to as "AppleWorks Classic" to differentiate it from AppleWorks GS and the later product for Macintosh and Windows of the same name. The term "Classic" in this context does not refer to the Classic compatibility environment in Mac OS X. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AppleWorks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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