the first version of word was released in 1970.
the first version of word was released in 1970.
when was the first version of word released?
1970
the first version of microsoft word was developed by charles simonyi and richard brodie, former xerox programmers hired by bill gates and paul allen in 1981. both programmers worked on xerox bravo, the first wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) word processor. the first word version, word 1.0, was released in october 1983 for xenix and ms-dos; it was followed by four very similar versions that were not very successful. the first windows version was released in 1989, with a slightly improved interface. when windows 3.0 was released in 1990, word became a huge commercial success. word for windows 1.0 was followed by word 2.0 in 1991 and word 6.0 in 1993. then it was renamed to word 95 and word 97, word 2000 and word for office xp (to follow windows commercial names). with the release of word 2003, the numbering was again year-based. since then, windows versions include word 2007, word 2010, word 2013, word 2016, and most recently, word for office 365.
history of microsoft word
the program managed to provide most word-processing features, but it was in need of additional cleanup and attention to performance and memory footprint. ashton-tate, however, never addressed these issues. three minor versions were released in 1989 and 1990: 1.5, and 1.5s. these fixed many bugs and some minor features, and 1.5s added a rarely used ability to add sound notes to documents (thus the "s" version). they also bundled an external product known as tycho tablemaker to address that hole, but it was not well integrated, as one might expect from an external program. microsoft word released a major upgrade in 1988, 4.0, and ashton-tate never responded.
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