What does the future hold for the world’s most popular word processor? Word isn’t going anywhere. But we are.

[This Does Not Compute] takes us through the history of the AlphaSmart word processor which started as an educational tool, but finds itself in many a writer’s bag today.

WordStar: A writer’s word processor Even today, some authors still use DOS word processing software from the 1990s.

The word processor itself has a clear and friendly interface, managed via a Word-style tabbed menu along the top of the screen—it feels more like a desktop program than Drive does.

How Literature Became Word Perfect Before the word processor, perfect copy was the domain of the typist—not the literary genius.

But once they got to the point where they had a good word processor, they realized it wouldn't take much more work to make a great multi-purpose computer: It was just going be a word processor ...

What is a processor: Your CPU explained (Image credit: Future) What is the processor in a computer? At its core, the processor inside your computer is the entire brains of the operation, so to speak.

Stephen King's magical computer story "Word Processor Of The Gods" ends with a huge twist you'd really never expect from the author.

"Game of Thrones" author George R.R. Martin is a self-proclaimed "dinosaur" who writes his bestselling books on a clunky DOS word processor.

Quip–the collaborative word processor for iPads, iPhones, Android devices, and the web–is expanding into spreadsheets. But it isn’t becoming a suite à la Microsoft Office or Google Apps ...

Pro Microsoft Word Turns 41: what does the future hold for the world’s favorite word processor? News By Christian Lund published 20 November 2024 Word’s recent birthday and the future of documents ...