If pressed you could probably come up with several good reasons why you've brought a personal computer - games and the Internet figure prominently on many people's list - but the one application that ...

Here's a trick question: who's produced the most books in the past 30 years? Answer: a guy called Charles Simonyi. Eh? Well, I said it was a trick question. Mr Simonyi, you see, is the chap who ...

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 ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Microsoft Word is the most ubiquitous word-processing ...

When Amstrad launched its word processor 30 years ago, writers were initially resistant – processing was for peas, not words. But many soon saw the benefits of life without Tipp-Ex Even by the ...

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 ...

Microsoft must amend its popular word-processing program in order to remove a feature judged to breach copyright, a court has ruled A reader wants to know why his Microsoft Word has suddenly started ...

As Microsoft Word turns 40, we look at the role the software has played in four decades of language and communication evolution. For 40 years there’s been an invisible hand guiding the way many of us ...