What's hilarious is the home version of office was almost wholly incompatible with flagship Office… even down to the doc types… the icing, it was called 'Microsoft Works'… a truly terrible product
Yes. It needed to be branded "works" because it did not.
If you had told me ten years ago that I would still be using Outlook (on desktop and mobile) I would not have believed you. It's way more stable than it was back then and honestly it's the mail client that I find least objectionable.
Give me Eudora.
I'm pretty sure I had to use outlook express at some point eons ago, but I seem to have blocked all memories of it from my mind. I wonder why…
I remember that in the days before I got a gmail invite, I very quickly learned to use Thunderbird for emails.