Think Windows 11's Notepad is too bloated these days? Someone got an ancient version of Word running natively in Windows 11.

Longing for a plain, old-fashioned version of Microsoft Word without all the bells, whistles, and AI slop? One developer managed to coax Word 1.1a to run on today's Windows.

The Computer History Museum made the Word 1.1a source code publicly available in 2014, now it has been ported to 64-bit ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft Word began as a word processor for MS-DOS back in the 1980s, a time when most personal computer software was all about databases, spreadsheets, ...

There was a time when the line between typewriters and word processing software was a bit fuzzy. [Poking Technology] found a Xerox 6040 which can’t decide what it is. It looks like a typewriter but ...

In brief: Before Microsoft Word became the de-facto standard for word processing on the PC, the market was rich with choice. WordStar is a program many great writers started their career on, and now ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Adobe has acquired BuzzWord, a beautiful Flash-based word processor. But we recommend against using it until the company can add in necessary features. Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products ...