Microsoft Word is a word processor created by Microsoft, first released under the name Multi-Tool Word for the Xenix and MS-DOS systems. It was designed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie, two programmers from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and it aimed to show text on screen as it would print, with support for a mouse. The first version sold slowly. Versions for the Macintosh and later for Windows made it a market leader, and by the 1990s it had overtaken the older program WordPerfect. Word became part of the Microsoft Office suite, and its file formats, first doc and later docx, became a worldwide standard for exchanging documents.
Before and after
- 6 August 1983Birth of Robin van Persie
- 1 September 1983Korean Air Lines Flight 007 crash
- 14 September 1983Birth of Amy Winehouse
- 27 September 1983Creation of GNU
- October 1983Release of Microsoft Word
- from 25 October 1983 to 15 December 19831983 Invasion of Grenada
- 20 November 1983Creation of Turbo Pascal
- 17 December 1983Harrods bombing
- 1984Discovery of hassium
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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