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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been 24 years since Microsoft first released Word, and four years since the program’s last major upgrade. How much more can Microsoft do to tweak its venerable word processor? Surprisingly, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've got a friend who is moving soon and she needs a word processor program to write reports and stuff for college. She said she has OS 8.2 and she's looking for something that's either free or pretty ...

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post will ...