Joe -

IMO nobody should ever have used Works for anything.

But although they changed the language used, it hasn't really been discontinued. It's just called "Home Basic" now, which is so worthless (IMO) that nobody who wants to do anything useful should use it.

In response to the honest critics, they've most recently been trying to make real Office as useless as Home Basic so that everyone will have to use the kiddy stuff.

John