Microsoft Works (ver 8) Abandonware Microsoft no longer supports Works. Unfortunately, they also are not releasing the necessary code so that people can create a Viewer to read MSWorks files (they want you to purchase MSOffice, which contains a Works transltor). Therefore, if you have any MSWorks files (*.WDB database, *.WKS spreadsheet, or *.WPS word processor), you must first install this Works program, open each of you files in Works, save them into a file format that can be read with existing Viewers (such as *.rtf), then un-install MSWorks.