John in Kansas: Thanks for the information.
w.r.t. Microsoft Works, my experience was with Microsoft Word was with Word 97, the expensive box, which I installed on my computer. It is realy inferior to Word Perfect 8 and was designed by a control freak. I now have Windows XP, which comes with a versopm Word. I agree with your statement that this "Word" lacks many features and can fairly be called a toy.

People have different needs. I suspect that a person needing a computer with networking capacity, spreadsheet and presentation applications would not be asking for advice on Mudcat; they would talk to a consultant. But of course, I could be wrong.