Microsoft Word

A word processing program from Microsoft that is actually two completely different codebases. The first one was a text mode version 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. 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.

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