that could be distributed with applications. This allowed users to use DeskMate applications on their PC's even if they did not have DeskMate installed. Professional DeskMate Tandy offered DeskMate for corporate users as an alternative to OS/2 Presentation Manager. Professional DeskMate provides a text-based GUI for DOS, with LocalTalk-based file-service and email extensions. WinMate This was a complete rewrite for Microsoft Windows 3.1, providing a simplified user interface and a few applications. Reception Noting that Tandy had found that Personal DeskMate increased sales of its 1000 computers, Stewart Alsop II in 1988 praised Tandy's strategy for Professional DeskMate as "brilliant: while IBM, Apple, and virtually the rest of the computing world focus almost exclusively on corporate and government business", Tandy "responds to the basic needs of small businesses and professional offices". References External links DeskMate ver 3.69 screenshot and text DeskMate Programs and Related Files for DeskMate version 3+ DeskMate: Tandy's Software Starter Package 80 Micro review of original Deskmate for Tandy 1000 DOS software File managers IBM PC compatibles Operating system APIs Assembly language software TRS-80 Windowing systems