Microsoft Word is the most ubiquitous word-processing program on the market; it's intuitive even for the most technologically illiterate computer users and is backed by the powerful Microsoft ...

For those who have never known anything except a word processing program on a computer, this can be difficult to understand. But the change can be imagined by contrasting the difference between ...

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 ...