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Microsoft Word - The beginning: Encyclopedia II - Microsoft Word - The beginning

Many concepts and ideas were brought from Bravo, the original GUI word processor developed at Xerox PARC, into Microsoft Word. Bravo's creator Charles Simonyi left PARC to work for Microsoft in 1981. Simonyi hired Brodie, who had worked with him on Bravo, away from PARC that summer. Word's first general release was for MS-DOS computers on May 2, 1983. It was not well received, and sales lagged beh ...

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Microsoft Word - File formats. Word document format is now the de-facto standard of document file format. Though usually just referred to as "Word document format", this term refers primarily to the format used by default in Word version 97-2003. In addition to the default Word binary format, there are actually a number of optional alternate file formats that Microsoft has used over the years. Rich Text interchange Format (RTF) was an early effort to create a format for interchanging formatted text between applic ...

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Versions for MS-DOS include: 1983 November Word 1 1985 Word 2 1986 Word 3 1987 Word 4 aka Microsoft Word 4.0 for the PC 1989 Word 5 1991 Word 5.5 1993 Word 6.0 Versions for Apple Macintosh include: 1985 January Word 1 for the Macintosh 1987 Word 3 1989 Word 4 1991 Word 5 1993 Word 6 1998 Word 98 2000 Word 2001, the last version compatible with Mac OS 9 2001 Word v.X, the first version for M ...

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File import and export filters for Microsoft Word's document file format exist for many word processors such as AbiWord or OpenOffice.org (see the article on word processor for other competitors). Most of this interoperability is achieved through reverse engineering since documentation of the file format, while available to partners, is not openly available. The document formats of the various versions of Word change in subtle and not so subtle ways; formatting created in newer versions does not always survive when viewed in older versions o ...

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Microsoft Word - The beginning: Encyclopedia II - Microsoft Word - Word 1990 to 1995

The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989 at a price of 500 US dollars. With the release of Windows 3.0 the following year, sales began to pick up (Word for Windows 1.0 was designed for use with Windows 3.0, and its performance was poorer with the versions of Windows available when it was first released). The failure of WordPerfect to produce a Windows version proved a fatal mistake. It was version 2.0 of Word, however, that fir ...

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Microsoft Word - The beginning: Encyclopedia II - Microsoft Word - File formats

Though usually just referred to as "Word document format", there are actually a number of different file formats that Microsoft have used over the years. For example, Word 2003 introduced an XML-based Word format. It is possible for a user to write a plug-in to allow Word to understand any file format. When Microsoft was not the market leader and Word Perfect was, an SDK was developed to allow advanced users to give support to other formats. This SDK is called the WinWord Converter SDK and is still available at th ...

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