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by dleslie 797 days ago
It's all coming back to me now.

1993 was also when Word 6 was released for Windows; moving from a DOS editor to the Windows editor brought a revolution in fonts.

Just have a look at the difference in experience and it's obvious why offices and such adopted windows so quickly:

https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-word/6x

Works 2 was released for Windows a year earlier, but I think the 3 release was what really shone. IIRC, that was the version I had bundled with our home PC:

https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-works/2x-win