Ars writer Jeremy Reimer contemplates the life and times of Microsoft Word, the reasons it has endured for so long, and its (lack of?) prospects in a post-print, wiki ...

I was having dinner with friends the other day and we started talking about word processing programs we'd all used in office jobs. "You know, I've been using Word for over 20 years," I said, and ...

Having re-open-sourced MS-DOS on GitHub in 2018, Microsoft has now released the source code for GW-BASIC, Microsoft's 1983 BASIC interpreter. GW-BASIC can trace its roots back to Bill Gates' and Paul ...

*Boy, that would be one big, fat, feature-cluttered dead carcass. *But this guy's argument looks pretty strong. "Word—and I know I'll be attacked for saying this—is the new typewriter. "Maybe I'm ...

Microsoft word was first released 40 years ago and it has had a surprising affect on the way we use language today (Credit: Alamy) As Microsoft Word turns 40, we look at the role the software has ...

Reckon modern Microsoft Word is too cluttered and should be stripped back? A few hours with the horror of version 1 would give you perspective on that. Because it was an app people loved to hate? But ...