Stephanie Sharf entered the labor force in 1968, working as an assistant reference librarian for the RAND Corporation. In the half-century since, she’s had a range of office jobs. Back then, “office ...

Microsoft Word has been the default word processor on PC for a long time, and though the program is tremendously powerful, it ...

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 ...

In a nutshell: This week has been a special one for Microsoft Word as the venerable software reached its 40th birthday. To celebrate, Microsoft is looking back at the word processor's history and what ...

In fact, Word's continued existence isn't a testament to its quality—it's a testament to corporate inertia and the sheer difficulty of changing the document standard. The fact that a product with such ...

For as far as anyone can probably remember, Microsoft Word, notably renowned by many for its comprehensive features and widespread use in both professional and personal settings, has reigned supreme ...

Evelyn Berezin, a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of the typewriter nearly a half-century ago by building and marketing the first computerized word ...