But that timeline never came to be. Steve Jobs wanted to sell hardware. The Windows version of AppleWorks was a distraction, a necessary casualty in Apple’s resurrection.
Apple used a proprietary file format ( .cwk for ClarisWorks). While Mac users could easily share files, the Windows version was picky about character encoding and fonts. A document created on a Mac with the "Charcoal" font would open on Windows with question marks everywhere. appleworks 6 for windows
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple and folded Claris back into the parent company, ClarisWorks was rebranded as AppleWorks. Apple continued to maintain the Windows version to cater to the massive education market, where many schools used a mix of Macs and PCs. Core Features of the Windows Version But that timeline never came to be