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Microsoft Word

A story being written and formatted in Word, running on Windows 10

Developer(s)

Microsoft

Initial release

October 25, 1983; 35 years ago (as Multi-Tool Word)

Stable release(s)

Office 365	1908 (16.0.11929.20254) / August 26, 2019; 12 days ago^[1]
One-time purchase	2019 (16.0) / September 24, 2018; 11 months ago^[2]

Operating system

Windows 7 SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2^[3]

Platform

IA-32, x64, ARM

Type

Word processor

License

Trialware

Website

products.office.com/word

Microsoft Word for Mac
Operating system
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Stable release	16.28 (Build 19081202) / August 13, 2019; 25 days ago^[4]
Type	Word processor
License
Website	products.office.com/word

Microsoft Word for Android
License
Screenshot of Microsoft Word for Android 16
Developer(s)	Microsoft Corporation
Stable release	16.0.11929.20198 / August 21, 2019; 17 days ago^[5]
Operating system	Android Marshmallow and later
Website	products.office.com/word

Microsoft Word for iOS
Stable release
Developer(s)	Microsoft Corporation
Operating system	iOS
License
Website	products.office.com/word

Word Mobile for Windows 10
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Stable release	16001.11929.20170.0 / August 20, 2019; 18 days ago
Operating system	Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile
Type	Word processor
License	Trialware
Website	www.microsoft.com/store/productid/9WZDNCRFJB9S

Microsoft Word (or simply Word) is a word processor developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983^[7] under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems.^[8]^[9]^[10] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T Unix PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989), Microsoft Windows (1989), SCO Unix (1994), and macOS (formerly OS X; 2001).

Commercial versions of Word are licensed as a standalone product or as a component of Microsoft Office, Windows RT or the discontinued Microsoft Works suite.

1History
2File formats
3Features and flaws

History[edit]

Origins[edit]

In 1981, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi, the primary developer of Bravo, the first GUIword processor, which was developed at Xerox PARC.^[11] Simonyi started work on a word processor called Multi-Tool Word and soon hired Richard Brodie, a former Xerox intern, who became the primary software engineer.^[11]^[12]^[13]

Microsoft announced Multi-Tool Word for Xenix^[11] and MS-DOS in 1983.^[14] Its name was soon simplified to Microsoft Word.^[8] Free demonstration copies of the application were bundled with the November 1983 issue of PC World, making it the first to be distributed on-disk with a magazine.^[8]^[15] That year Microsoft demonstrated Word running on Windows.^[16]

Unlike most MS-DOS programs at the time, Microsoft Word was designed to be used with a mouse.^[14] Advertisements depicted the Microsoft Mouse, and described Word as a WYSIWYG, windowed word processor with the ability to undo and display bold, italic, and underlined text,^[17] although it could not render fonts.^[8] It was not initially popular, since its user interface was different from the leading word processor at the time, WordStar.^[18] However, Microsoft steadily improved the product, releasing versions 2.0 through 5.0 over the next six years. In 1985, Microsoft ported Word to the classic Mac OS (known as Macintosh System Software at the time). This was made easier by Word for DOS having been designed for use with high-resolution displays and laser printers, even though none were yet available to the general public.^[19] Following the precedents of LisaWrite and MacWrite, Word for Mac OS added true WYSIWYG features. It fulfilled a need for a word processor that was more capable than MacWrite.^[20] After its release, Word for Mac OS's sales were higher than its MS-DOS counterpart for at least four years.^[11]

The second release of Word for Mac OS, shipped in 1987, was named Word 3.0 to synchronize its version number with Word for DOS; this was Microsoft's first attempt to synchronize version numbers across platforms. Word 3.0 included numerous internal enhancements and new features, including the first implementation of the Rich Text Format (RTF) specification, but was plagued with bugs. Within a few months, Word 3.0 was superseded by a more stable Word 3.01, which was mailed free to all registered users of 3.0.^[19] After MacWrite Pro was discontinued in the mid-1990s, Word for Mac OS never had any serious rivals. Word 5.1 for Mac OS, released in 1992, was a very popular word processor owing to its elegance, relative ease of use and feature set. Many users say it is the best version of Word for Mac OS ever created.^[19]^[21]

In 1986, an agreement between Atari and Microsoft brought Word to the Atari ST^[22] under the name Microsoft Write. The Atari ST version was a port of Word 1.05 for the Mac OS^[23]^[24] and was never updated.

The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989. With the release of Windows 3.0 the following year, sales began to pick up and Microsoft soon became the market leader for word processors

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