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1. What is Microsoft Word?
Microsoft Word is a word processing software application designed and developed by Microsoft Inc. A word processing software is a product that enables the users to type words and to process it according to the way the user requires it.Microsoft word is a product that is bundled with Microsoft's office software application package. Microsoft Word is commonly used by a wide range of users starting from government, schools, corporate offices and etc...
Microsoft word does require licensing for the product to use and it's not for free to use. Microsoft Word does have a wide range of features compared to other products that are available in the market.
2. History
To build the Microsoft Word software application which we use today, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi in 1981 who was the primary developer for the world's first GUI word processor named Bravo developed by Xerox PARC. Microsoft hired Richard Brodie who was an intern at Xerox and who became the primary developer for Microsoft's own word processor named Multi-Tool Word by the time.The very first release of the Multi-Tool Word supported Xenis and MS-DOS and released to the market in 1983. At a later time, Microsoft re-branded the product as Microsoft Word. With the later versions, Microsoft releases word processing software which can be used in Windows OS and Mac OS platforms.
3. Versions
Microsoft releases two major releases for the Microsoft Windows Operating system platform, MS-DOS OS, and for Mac Operating system platform in majorly starting from 1983.3.1 Microsoft Word Versions for MS-DOS OS
With the start of Microsoft Word by using MS-DOS OS, Microsoft released eight releases focused on the MS-DOS operating system platform.
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