On a recent Monday morning in Braham, Minn., a local water operator made an unsettling discovery — the pump at the treatment plant wasn’t working, threatening the flow of water to people’s homes.

Longing for a plain, old-fashioned version of Microsoft Word without all the bells, whistles, and AI slop? One developer managed to coax Word 1.1a to run on today's Windows.

Think Windows 11's Notepad is too bloated these days? Someone got an ancient version of Word running natively in Windows 11.

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft Word began as a word processor for MS-DOS back in the 1980s, a time when most personal computer software was all about databases, spreadsheets, ...

A glimpse into how Microsoft's productivity suite started its life.

This project is a fully working native Windows x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, whose historical codename was Opus. It builds the original Word source and resources together with modern ...

It took some convincing, but at the start of this year, I ended a years-long relationship with Microsoft 365. I’d like to say I ditched the office suite for some nuanced reason, like I don’t want ...

Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. But I started using my favorite word processor of all time just six weeks ago. I acknowledge that I may be a tad biased: I vibe-coded it ...

Anthropic launched a beta version of Claude for Word, another challenge to Microsoft's software empire and a bid to appeal more to the legal profession. The AI startup, having pushed Claude into Excel ...

We have the 7-letter answer for NOUN: "a display generated by word-processing or desktop-publishing software that exactly reflects the document as it would appear in its finished state" crossword clue ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new, faster, and more efficient way to add hyperlinks in Word. Instead of selecting text, opening the Insert Link dialog, and inserting a URL, users can now select text and ...