WinComm was a

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program for

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that was offered by

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in the mid-1990s. Seeing a growing business in online communications utilities, Delrina launched WinComm PRO. It was used primarily to connect to

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of the time, prior to the advent of the Internet. By double-clicking on an icon, the program would automatically connect to any of a number pre-defined online services, such as

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, or to any other local BBS a user may have had defined. Delrina tried to expand aggressively into this market space, first by acquiring the Canadian online bulletin board service CRS Online, and then using it as a distribution channel for free versions of its WinComm LITE and DOS-based FreeComm products in March 1995. The WinComm PRO product culminated in version 7.0, which was bundled with the

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software package, which also included versions of

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, and TalkWorks. WinComm was a relative latecomer to the market, which was dominated at the time by Datastorm's

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series of products.

References

External links

Review of WinComm PRO 7.0, accessed November 6, 2005
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