Microsoft Word for Windows

In 1989 a new version with a graphical user interface and coded from the ground up in C was introduced for Microsoft Windows and followed the year after by a version for OS/2 PM.

Features

• Supported document formats:
  • Microsoft Word for the PC
  • Microsoft Windows Write (read only)
  • WordPerfect
  • Multimate
  • IBM DisplayWrite
  • WordStar
  • Microsoft Works
  • ASCII
  • Rich Text Format (RTF)
• Supported import graphics and image file formats: TIFF, PIC, CGM, AutoCAD, HPGL

Releases

Word for OS/2 Presentation Manager

• Word for OS/2 1.1 (1990)
• Word for OS/2 1.1b

Word for Windows

• 1.0 (Jan 1990)
• 1.1 (Jul 1990)
• 1.1a (Mar 1991)
• 2.0 (Oct 1991)
  • 2.0a
  • 2.0b
  • 2.0c (Dec 1992)
• 6.0 (1993)
  • 6.0a
  • 6.0c

Publications

• Microsoft Word for Windows: Technical Reference - Microsoft Press 1990, ISBN 1-55615-288-4
• Microsoft Word Developer's Kit - Microsoft Press 1994, ISBN 1-55615-630-8
• Microsoft Word Developer's Kit, 3rd Ed. - Microsoft Press 1995, ISBN 1-55615-880-7

Links

• https://computerhistory.org/blog/microsoft-word-for-windows-1-1a-source-code/
• Compiling Word for Windows from OS/2 1.2