Adobe has acquired Virtual Ubiquity‘s BuzzWord, a Web-based Flash word processor (news story). There are a lot of online productivity suites and apps right now–see Google, Zoho, ThinkFree, for example ...

Someone cloned Microsoft Word, so I had to try it on Linux and Mac. It’s a 1:1 alternative - and open source.

Word processors are an indispensable tool on any PC. Every day we need to write all kinds of documents and reports, whether for our studies or in our working day. No wonder that one of the classic ...

In many professional environments, writing and editing are often considered among the more time-intensive and repetitive parts of daily work. From legal documents to internal reports, the process ...

Faster is almost always better, at least when it comes to computers. So what’s the fastest way to open a word processor? You can create a keyboard shortcut to open Notepad, WordPad, Word, or any other ...

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In brief: Before Microsoft Word became the de-facto standard for word processing on the PC, the market was rich with choice. WordStar is a program many great writers started their career on, and now ...

Do people prefer stories written on a word processor?Stories written by AI are sometimes preferred over those written by ...

Microsoft has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which first debuted almost three decades ago as a ...

I saw a discussion about whether writers used to write by hand before word processors appeared, and I wrote a reply, but ...