Microsoft Word

A word processing program from Microsoft that is actually two completely different codebases. The first one was designed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie and was developed on Microsoft's in house UCSD Pascal derived system and shipped for DOS and XENIX with versions appearing a little later for most personal computers available at the time.

Versions

DOS

• Nov 1983: Word 1.0
• 1985: Word 2.0
• 1986: Word 3.0
• 1987: Word 4.0
• 1993: Word 6.0 (last known DOS version)

DOS & OS/2 (FAPI)

• 1989: Word 5.0
• 1990: Word 5.5
• 1999: Y2K-compatible version

The DOS 5.5 version is available as a free download from Microsoft. Link is to US English version, other languages are available.

OS/2 Presentation Manager

• 1990: Word for OS/2 1.1
• Last known OS/2 PM version: Microsoft Word for OS/2 v1.1b

Windows

• Nov 1989: Word for Windows 1.0
• 1990: Word for Windows 1.1
• 1990: Word for Windows 1.1a
• 1992: Word for Windows 2.0
• 1993: Word for Windows 6.0

Authors & publisher

• Microsoft
• Charles Simonyi (MS Word VIO)
• Richard Brodie (MS Word VIO)

Links

• SCO TA #108642