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 Word is one of the most widely used word processing programs in the world. It is one element of the software package, Microsoft Office, which also includes other well-known programs such as ...

It’s hard to believe, but one of the most important changes in the way people write in the last 50 years has been largely overlooked by historians of literature. The word processor—that is, any ...

Microsoft Word is Microsoft's legacy word-processing software. You can access Microsoft Word for free online, or their are paid versions you can download. Microsoft ...

In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...

Is Apple’s iWork a viable alternative to Microsoft Office? To find out, we asked Jeffrey Battersby—our go-to expert on word processing programs—to use Word 2008 and Pages ’08 to create the same ...

“Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing,” an upcoming book by Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum, will cover the first authors to use word processors and how they saw the tool in relation to ...

Until this is an option, we have Word. SIphotography/Thinkstock The normal way to feel about Microsoft Word, I’ve gathered, is somewhere on a spectrum from muted ...