[edavis]

Checking the specs of the new Intel iMac, I notice that Appleworks is NOT pre-loaded.

Is it going away?

[typoon]

Most likely. Since they now are pushing iWork.

[P]

I imagine porting it would be very hard, since the code is very old Carbon port that has not been updated in a very long time.

[JLL]

Since they haven't touched AW for years I don't think that they want to go back and try to get it into Xcode.

[Millennium]

Despite AppleWorks being the very program for which the term "Bad Carbon Port" was coined, I'm sad to see it go, largely because Apple has not yet developed a complete replacement for it. AppleWorks had six areas of functionality -Word Processing, Presentations, Drawing, Painting, Spreadsheets, and simple Databases- and so far iWork only covers the first two of those areas.

[tooki]

Agreed.

Then again, the student/teacher edition of Office costs substantially less than I paid for AppleWorks way back when it was ClarisWorks. And considering that many students have to submit work as .doc files (import/export is a pain, and not 100%), and that many universities have site licenses that students can use, it's probably not a big deal, though I am sad to see it go.

(I've seldom seen AppleWorks used outside of education or basic home use, where someone in the household could get the student version of Office.)

tooki

[brettcamp]

And don't forget NeoOffice, which is free, if not nearly as elegant as AW was in its time (esp. version 5).

[JKT]

NeoOffice and OpenOffice.org for X11 (at least the 2.0 version anyway... not sure about 1.1.2) are not going to work on the Intel Macs for a while yet (and, no NeoOffice won't work in Rosetta either).