The $495 package, developed by New York City-headquartered Dragonfly Software, runs on the IBM-PC and compatible computers. In many ways it takes after another word-processing program, XyWrite, a ...

The word processing software came online in 1983 and eventually came to eclipse every other word processing software in market share. Reading time 2 minutes There was a time when most folks weren’t on ...

Recently my colleagues and I were discussing the history of word processors (that’s just the kind of thing we do here), and a few of them reminisced about using one called WordPerfect many, many years ...

My first word processor was a program I forget the name of on that C64. As soon as I could get enough money together I bought a Kaypro 2 (running CP/M, of course) and after trying a several different ...

The old ways still have value. WordStar, an MS-DOS-based word-processing program first released in 1978, can live a little longer thanks to the archiving efforts of one of its biggest fans—Hugo and ...

In a nutshell: This week has been a special one for Microsoft Word as the venerable software reached its 40th birthday. To celebrate, Microsoft is looking back at the word processor's history and what ...

For as far as anyone can probably remember, Microsoft Word, notably renowned by many for its comprehensive features and widespread use in both professional and personal settings, has reigned supreme ...