Microsoft first word processor

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Office 365 version of Microsoft Word, with the new redesign applied
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	October 25, 1983; 39 years ago (as Multi-Tool Word)
Stable release	2209 (16.0.15629.20208) / October 11, 2022; 6 months ago[1]
Repository	none
Written in	C++ (back-end)[2]
Operating system	Windows 10 and later, Windows Server 2016 and later Office 365 only Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later[3]
Platform	IA-32, x64, ARM, ARM64
Type	Word processor
License	Trialware
Website	microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/word

Microsoft Word for Mac

Word for Mac running on macOS Ventura (13.2)
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Stable release	16.64 (Build 22081401) / August 16, 2022; 7 months ago[4]
Repository	none
Written in	C++ (back-end), Objective-C (API/UI)[2]
Operating system	macOS
Type	Word processor
License	Proprietary software plus services
Website	products.office.com/word

Microsoft Word for Android

Screenshot of Microsoft Word for Android 13
Original author(s)	Microsoft Corporation
Developer(s)	Microsoft Corporation
Initial release	January 29, 2015; 8 years ago[5]
Stable release	16.0.15427.20090 / July 14, 2022; 8 months ago[6]
Repository	none
Operating system	Android Pie and later
License	Proprietary commercial software
Website	products.office.com/word

Microsoft Word for iOS

Developer(s)	Microsoft Corporation
Initial release	March 27, 2014; 9 years ago[7]
Stable release	2.63.2 / July 18, 2022; 8 months ago[8]
Repository	none
Operating system	iOS 14 or later IPadOS 14 or later
License	Proprietary commercial software
Website	products.office.com/word

Word Mobile for Windows 10

Developer(s)	Microsoft
Repository	none
Operating system	Windows 10 and later, Windows 10 Mobile
Type	Word processor
License	Freemium
Website	www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9WZDNCRFJB9S

Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983,^[9] under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems.^[10][11][12] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989), Microsoft Windows (1989), SCO Unix (1990), macOS (2001), Web browsers (2010), iOS (2014) and Android (2015). Using Wine, versions of Microsoft Word before 2013 can be run on Linux.

Commercial versions of Word are licensed as a standalone product or as a component of Microsoft Office suite of software, which can be purchased either with a perpetual license or as part of a Microsoft 365 subscription.

History[edit]

Origins[edit]

In 1981, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi, the primary developer of Bravo, the first GUI word processor, which was developed at Xerox PARC.^[13] Simonyi started work on a word processor called Multi-Tool Word and soon hired Richard Brodie, a former Xerox intern, who became the primary software engineer.^[13][14][15]

Microsoft announced Multi-Tool Word for Xenix^[13] and MS-DOS in 1983.^[16] Its name was soon simplified to Microsoft Word.^[10] Free demonstration copies of the application were bundled with the November 1983 issue of PC World, making it the first to be distributed on-disk with a magazine.^[10][17] That year Microsoft demonstrated Word running on Windows.^[18]

Unlike most MS-DOS programs at the time, Microsoft Word was designed to be used with a mouse.^[16] Advertisements depicted the Microsoft Mouse and described Word as a WYSIWYG, windowed word processor with the ability to undo and display bold, italic, and underlined text,^[19] although it could not render fonts.^[10] It was not initially popular, since its user interface was different from the leading word processor at the time, WordStar.^[20] However, Microsoft steadily improved the product, releasing versions 2.0 through 5.0 over the next six years. In 1985, Microsoft ported Word to the classic Mac OS (known as Macintosh System Software at the time). This was made easier by Word for DOS having been designed for use with high-resolution displays and laser printers, even though none were yet available to the general public.^[21] It was also notable for its very fast cut-and-paste function and unlimited number of undo operations, which are due to its usage of the piece table data structure.^[22]

Following the precedents of LisaWrite and MacWrite, Word for Mac OS added true WYSIWYG features. It fulfilled a need for a word processor that was more capable than MacWrite.^[23] After its release, Word for Mac OS’s sales were higher than its MS-DOS counterpart for at least four years.^[13]

The second release of Word for Mac OS, shipped in 1987, was named Word 3.0 to synchronize its version number with Word for DOS; this was Microsoft’s first attempt to synchronize version numbers across platforms. Word 3.0 included numerous internal enhancements and new features, including the first implementation of the Rich Text Format (RTF) specification, but was plagued with bugs. Within a few months, Word 3.0 was superseded by a more stable Word 3.01, which was mailed free to all registered users of 3.0.^[21] After MacWrite Pro was discontinued in the mid-1990s, Word for Mac OS never had any serious rivals. Word 5.1 for Mac OS, released in 1992, was a very popular word processor owing to its elegance, relative ease of use, and feature set. Many users say it is the best version of Word for Mac OS ever created.^[21][24]

In 1986, an agreement between Atari and Microsoft brought Word to the Atari ST^[25] under the name Microsoft Write. The Atari ST version was a port of Word 1.05 for the Mac OS^[26][27] and was never updated.

The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989. With the release of Windows 3.0 the following year, sales began to pick up and Microsoft soon became the market leader for word processors for IBM PC-compatible computers.^[13] In 1991, Microsoft capitalized on Word for Windows’ increasing popularity by releasing a version of Word for DOS, version 5.5, that replaced its unique user interface with an interface similar to a Windows application.^[28][29] When Microsoft became aware of the Year 2000 problem, it made Microsoft Word 5.5 for DOS available for free downloads. As of February 2021, it is still available for download from Microsoft’s website.^[30]
In 1991, Microsoft embarked on a project code-named Pyramid to completely rewrite Microsoft Word from the ground up. Both the Windows and Mac OS versions would start from the same code base. It was abandoned when it was determined that it would take the development team too long to rewrite and then catch up with all the new capabilities that could have been added at the same time without a rewrite. Instead, the next versions of Word for Windows and Mac OS, dubbed version 6.0, both started from the code base of Word for Windows 2.0.^[24]

With the release of Word 6.0 in 1993, Microsoft again attempted to synchronize the version numbers and coordinate product naming across platforms, this time across DOS, Mac OS, and Windows (this was the last version of Word for DOS). It introduced AutoCorrect, which automatically fixed certain typing errors, and AutoFormat, which could reformat many parts of a document at once. While the Windows version received favorable reviews (e.g., from InfoWorld^[31]), the Mac OS version was widely derided. Many accused it of being slow, clumsy, and memory intensive, and its user interface differed significantly from Word 5.1.^[24] In response to user requests, Microsoft offered Word 5 again, after it had been discontinued.^[32] Subsequent versions of Word for macOS are no longer direct ports of Word for Windows, instead featuring a mixture of ported code and native code.

Word for Windows[edit]

Word for Windows is available stand-alone or as part of the Microsoft Office suite. Word contains rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities and is the most widely used word processing program on the market. Word files are commonly used as the format for sending text documents via e-mail because almost every user with a computer can read a Word document by using the Word application, a Word viewer or a word processor that imports the Word format (see Microsoft Word Viewer).

Word 6 for Windows NT was the first 32-bit version of the product,^[33] released with Microsoft Office for Windows NT around the same time as Windows 95. It was a straightforward port of Word 6.0. Starting with Word 95, each release of Word was named after the year of its release, instead of its version number.^[34]

Word 2007 introduced a redesigned user interface that emphasized the most common controls, dividing them into tabs, and adding specific options depending on the context, such as selecting an image or editing a table.^[35] This user interface, called Ribbon, was included in Excel, PowerPoint and Access 2007, and would be later introduced to other Office applications with Office 2010 and Windows applications such as Paint and WordPad with Windows 7, respectively.^[36]

The redesigned interface also includes a toolbar that appears when selecting text, with options for formatting included.^[37]

Word 2007 also included the option to save documents as Adobe Acrobat or XPS files,^[37] and upload Word documents like blog posts on services such as WordPress.

Word 2010 allows the customization of the Ribbon,^[38] adds a Backstage view for file management,^[39] has improved document navigation, allows creation and embedding of screenshots,^[40] and integrates with online services such as Microsoft OneDrive.^[41]

Word 2019 added a dictation function.

Word 2021 added co-authoring, a visual refresh on the start experience and tabs, automatic cloud saving, dark mode, line focus, an updated draw tab, and support for ODF 1.3.

Word for Mac[edit]

The Mac was introduced on January 24, 1984, and Microsoft introduced Word 1.0 for Mac a year later, on January 18, 1985. The DOS, Mac, and Windows versions are quite different from each other. Only the Mac version was WYSIWYG and used a graphical user interface, far ahead of the other platforms. Each platform restarted its version numbering at «1.0».^[42] There was no version 2 on the Mac, but version 3 came out on January 31, 1987, as described above. Word 4.0 came out on November 6, 1990, and added automatic linking with Excel, the ability to flow text around graphics, and a WYSIWYG page view editing mode. Word 5.1 for Mac, released in 1992 ran on the original 68000 CPU and was the last to be specifically designed as a Macintosh application. The later Word 6 was a Windows port and poorly received. Word 5.1 continued to run well until the last Classic MacOS. Many people continue to run Word 5.1 to this day under an emulated Mac classic system for some of its excellent features, such as document generation and renumbering, or to access their old files.

In 1997, Microsoft formed the Macintosh Business Unit as an independent group within Microsoft focused on writing software for Mac OS. Its first version of Word, Word 98, was released with Office 98 Macintosh Edition. Document compatibility reached parity with Word 97,^[32] and it included features from Word 97 for Windows, including spell and grammar checking with squiggles.^[43] Users could choose the menus and keyboard shortcuts to be similar to either Word 97 for Windows or Word 5 for Mac OS.

Word 2001, released in 2000, added a few new features, including the Office Clipboard, which allowed users to copy and paste multiple items.^[44] It was the last version to run on classic Mac OS and, on Mac OS X, it could only run within the Classic Environment. Word X, released in 2001, was the first version to run natively on, and required, Mac OS X,^[43] and introduced non-contiguous text selection.^[45]

Word 2004 was released in May 2004. It included a new Notebook Layout view for taking notes either by typing or by voice.^[46] Other features, such as tracking changes, were made more similar with Office for Windows.^[47]

Word 2008, released on January 15, 2008, included a Ribbon-like feature, called the Elements Gallery, that can be used to select page layouts and insert custom diagrams and images. It also included a new view focused on publishing layout, integrated bibliography management,^[48] and native support for the new Office Open XML format. It was the first version to run natively on Intel-based Macs.^[49]

Word 2011, released in October 2010, replaced the Elements Gallery in favor of a Ribbon user interface that is much more similar to Office for Windows,^[50] and includes a full-screen mode that allows users to focus on reading and writing documents, and support for Office Web Apps.^[51]

Word 2021 added real-time co-authoring, automatic cloud saving, dark mode, immersive reader enhancements, line focus, a visual refresh, the ability to save pictures in SVG format, and a new Sketched style outline.

File formats[edit]

Native file formats

DOC	Legacy Word document
DOT	Legacy Word templates
WBK	Legacy Word document backup
DOCX	XML Word document
DOCM	XML Word macro-enabled document
DOTX	XML Word template
DOTM	XML Word macro-enabled template
DOCB	XML Word binary document

Filename extensions[edit]

Microsoft Word’s native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx filename extension.

Although the .doc extension has been used in many different versions of Word, it actually encompasses four distinct file formats:

1. Word for DOS
2. Word for Windows 1 and 2; Word 3 and 4 for Mac OS
3. Word 6 and Word 95 for Windows; Word 6 for Mac OS
4. Word 97 and later for Windows; Word 98 and later for Mac OS

(The classic Mac OS of the era did not use filename extensions.)^[52]

The newer .docx extension signifies the Office Open XML international standard for Office documents and is used by default by Word 2007 and later for Windows as well as Word 2008 and later for macOS.^[53]

Binary formats (Word 97–2007)[edit]

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the default Word document format (.DOC) became a de facto standard of document file formats for Microsoft Office users.^{[citation needed]} There are different versions of «Word Document Format» used by default in Word 97–2007.^[54] Each binary word file is a Compound File,^[55] a hierarchical file system within a file. According to Joel Spolsky, Word Binary File Format is extremely complex mainly because its developers had to accommodate an overwhelming number of features and prioritize performance over anything else.

As with all OLE Compound Files, Word Binary Format consists of «storages», which are analogous to computer folders and «streams», which are similar to computer files. Each storage may contain streams or other storage. Each Word Binary File must contain a stream called the «WordDocument» stream and this stream must start with a File Information Block (FIB).^[57] FIB serves as the first point of reference for locating everything else, such as where the text in a Word document starts, ends, what version of Word created the document and other attributes.

Word 2007 and later continue to support the DOC file format, although it is no longer the default.

XML Document (Word 2003)[edit]

The .docx XML format introduced in Word 2003^[58] was a simple, XML-based format called WordProcessingML or WordML.

The Microsoft Office XML formats are XML-based document formats (or XML schemas) introduced in versions of Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007. Microsoft Office XP introduced a new XML format for storing Excel spreadsheets and Office 2003 added an XML-based format for Word documents.

These formats were succeeded by Office Open XML (ECMA-376) in Microsoft Office 2007.

Cross-version compatibility[edit]

Opening a Word Document file in a version of Word other than the one with which it was created can cause an incorrect display of the document. The document formats of the various versions change in subtle and not-so-subtle ways (such as changing the font or the handling of more complex tasks like footnotes). Formatting created in newer versions does not always survive when viewed in older versions of the program, nearly always because that capability does not exist in the previous version.^[59] Rich Text Format (RTF), an early effort to create a format for interchanging formatted text between applications, is an optional format for Word that retains most formatting and all content of the original document.

Third-party formats[edit]

Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as international standard OpenDocument format (ODF) (ISO/IEC 26300:2006), are available. Up until the release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Office 2007, Word did not natively support reading or writing ODF documents without a plugin, namely the SUN ODF Plugin or the OpenXML/ODF Translator. With SP2 installed, ODF format 1.1 documents can be read and saved like any other supported format in addition to those already available in Word 2007.^{[59][60][61][62][63]} The implementation faces substantial criticism, and the ODF Alliance and others have claimed that the third-party plugins provide better support.^[64] Microsoft later declared that the ODF support has some limitations.^[65]

In October 2005, one year before the Microsoft Office 2007 suite was released, Microsoft declared that there was insufficient demand from Microsoft customers for the international standard OpenDocument format support and that therefore it would not be included in Microsoft Office 2007. This statement was repeated in the following months.^{[66][67][68][69]} As an answer, on October 20, 2005, an online petition was created to demand ODF support from Microsoft.^[70]

In May 2006, the ODF plugin for Microsoft Office was released by the OpenDocument Foundation.^[71] Microsoft declared that it had no relationship with the developers of the plugin.^[72]

In July 2006, Microsoft announced the creation of the Open XML Translator project – tools to build a technical bridge between the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats and the OpenDocument Format (ODF). This work was started in response to government requests for interoperability with ODF. The goal of the project was not to add ODF support to Microsoft Office, but only to create a plugin and an external toolset.^[73][74] In February 2007, this project released a first version of the ODF plugin for Microsoft Word.^[75]

In February 2007, Sun released an initial version of its ODF plugin for Microsoft Office.^[76] Version 1.0 was released in July 2007.^[77]

Microsoft Word 2007 (Service Pack 1) supports (for output only) PDF and XPS formats, but only after manual installation of the Microsoft ‘Save as PDF or XPS’ add-on.^[78][79] On later releases, this was offered by default.

Features and flaws[edit]

Among its features, Word includes a built-in spell checker, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and utilities for manipulating and editing text. It supports creating tables. Depending on the version, it can perform simple calculations, and supports formatting formulas and equations.

The following are some aspects of its feature set.

Templates[edit]

Several later versions of Word include the ability for users to create their formatting templates, allowing them to define a file in which: the title, heading, paragraph, and other element designs differ from the standard Word templates.^[80] Users can find how to do this under the Help section located near the top right corner (Word 2013 on Windows 8).

For example, Normal.dotm is the master template from which all Word documents are created. It determines the margin defaults as well as the layout of the text and font defaults. Although Normal.dotm is already set with certain defaults, the user can change it to new defaults. This will change other documents which were created using the template.^[81] It was previously Normal.dot.^[82]

Image formats[edit]

Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line art. Microsoft Word added support^[83] for the common SVG vector image format in 2017 for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers and this functionality was also included in the Office 2019 release.

WordArt[edit]

WordArt enables drawing text in a Microsoft Word document such as a title, watermark, or other text, with graphical effects such as skewing, shadowing, rotating, stretching in a variety of shapes and colors, and even including three-dimensional effects. Users can apply formatting effects such as shadow, bevel, glow, and reflection to their document text as easily as applying bold or underline. Users can also spell-check text that uses visual effects and add text effects to paragraph styles.

Macros[edit]

A macro is a rule of pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to an output sequence according to a defined process. Frequently used or repetitive sequences of keystrokes and mouse movements can be automated. Like other Microsoft Office documents, Word files can include advanced macros and even embedded programs. The language was originally WordBasic, but changed to Visual Basic for Applications as of Word 97.

This extensive functionality can also be used to run and propagate viruses in documents. The tendency for people to exchange Word documents via email, USB flash drives, and floppy disks made this an especially attractive vector in 1999. A prominent example was the Melissa virus, but countless others have existed.

These macro viruses were the only known cross-platform threats between Windows and Macintosh computers and they were the only infection vectors to affect any macOS system up until the advent of video codec trojans in 2007.^{[citation needed]} Microsoft released patches for Word X and Word 2004 that effectively eliminated the macro problem on the Mac by 2006.

Word’s macro security setting, which regulates when macros may execute, can be adjusted by the user, but in the most recent versions of Word, it is set to HIGH by default, generally reducing the risk from macro-based viruses, which have become uncommon.

Layout issues[edit]

Before Word 2010 (Word 14) for Windows, the program was unable to correctly handle ligatures defined in OpenType fonts.^[84] Those ligature glyphs with Unicode codepoints may be inserted manually, but are not recognized by Word for what they are, breaking spell checking, while custom ligatures present in the font are not accessible at all. Since Word 2010, the program now has advanced typesetting features which can be enabled,^[85] OpenType ligatures,^[86] kerning and hyphenation (previous versions already had the latter two features). Other layout deficiencies of Word include the inability to set crop marks or thin spaces. Various third-party workaround utilities have been developed.^[87]

In Word 2004 for Mac OS X, support of complex scripts was inferior even to Word 97^[88] and Word 2004 did not support Apple Advanced Typography features like ligatures or glyph variants.^[89]

Issues with technical documents[edit]

Microsoft Word is only awkwardly suitable for some kinds of technical writing, specifically, that which requires mathematical equations,^[90] figure placement, table placement and cross-references to any of these items.^{[citation needed]} The usual workaround for equations is to use a third-party equation typesetter.^{[citation needed]} Figures and tables must be placed manually; there is an anchor mechanism but it is not designed for fully automatic figure placement and editing text after placing figures and tables often requires re-placing those items by moving the anchor point and even then the placement options are limited.^{[citation needed]} This problem is deeply baked into Word’s structure since 1985 as it does not know where page breaks will occur until the document is printed.^{[citation needed]}

Bullets and numbering[edit]

Microsoft Word supports bullet lists and numbered lists. It also features a numbering system that helps add correct numbers to pages, chapters, headers, footnotes, and entries of tables of content; these numbers automatically change to correct ones as new items are added or existing items are deleted. Bullets and numbering can be applied directly to paragraphs and converted to lists.^[91] Word 97 through 2003, however, had problems adding correct numbers to numbered lists. In particular, a second irrelevant numbered list might have not started with number one but instead resumed numbering after the last numbered list. Although Word 97 supported a hidden marker that said the list numbering must restart afterward, the command to insert this marker (Restart Numbering command) was only added in Word 2003. However, if one were to cut the first item of the listed and paste it as another item (e.g. fifth), then the restart marker would have moved with it and the list would have restarted in the middle instead of at the top.^[92]

Word continues to default to non-Unicode characters and non-hierarchical bulleting, despite user preference for Powerpoint-style symbol hierarchies (e.g., filled circle/emdash/filled square/endash/emptied circle) and universal compatibility.

AutoSummarize[edit]

Available in certain versions of Word (e.g., Word 2007), AutoSummarize highlights passages or phrases that it considers valuable and can be a quick way of generating a crude abstract or an executive summary.^[93] The amount of text to be retained can be specified by the user as a percentage of the current amount of text.

According to Ron Fein of the Word 97 team, AutoSummarize cuts wordy copy to the bone by counting words and ranking sentences. First, AutoSummarize identifies the most common words in the document (barring «a» and «the» and the like) and assigns a «score» to each word – the more frequently a word is used, the higher the score. Then, it «averages» each sentence by adding the scores of its words and dividing the sum by the number of words in the sentence – the higher the average, the higher the rank of the sentence. «It’s like the ratio of wheat to chaff,» explains Fein.^[94]

AutoSummarize was removed from Microsoft Word for Mac OS X 2011, although it was present in Word for Mac 2008. AutoSummarize was removed from the Office 2010 release version (14) as well.^[95]

Other platforms[edit]

Word for mobile[edit]

Word Mobile^[96] is a word processor that allows creating and editing documents. It supports basic formatting, such as bolding, changing font size, and changing colors (from red, yellow, or green). It can add comments, but can’t edit documents with tracked changes. It can’t open password-protected documents; change the typeface, text alignment, or style (normal, heading 1); create bulleted lists; insert pictures; or undo.^[97][98][99] Word Mobile is neither able to display nor insert footnotes, endnotes, page headers, page footers, page breaks, certain indentation of lists, and certain fonts while working on a document, but retains them if the original document has them.^[100] In addition to the features of the 2013 version, the 2007 version on Windows Mobile also has the ability to save documents in the Rich Text Format and open legacy PSW (Pocket Word).^[100] Furthermore, it includes a spell checker, word count tool, and a «Find and Replace» command. In 2015, Word Mobile became available for Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile on Windows Store.^[101]

Support for Windows 10 Mobile version ended in January 12, 2021.^[102]

Word for the web[edit]

Word for the web is a free lightweight version of Microsoft Word available as part of Office on the web, which also includes web versions of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Word for the web lacks some Ribbon tabs, such as Design and Mailings. Mailings allows users to print envelopes and labels and manage mail merge printing of Word documents.^[103][104] Word for the web is not able to edit certain objects, such as: equations, shapes, text boxes or drawings, but a placeholder may be present in the document. Certain advanced features like table sorting or columns will not be displayed but are preserved as they were in the document. Other views available in the Word desktop app (Outline, Draft, Web Layout, and Full-Screen Reading) are not available, nor are side-by-side viewing, split windows, and the ruler.^[105]

Password protection[edit]

Three password types can be set in Microsoft Word,

• Password to open a document^[106]
• Password to modify a document^[106]
• Password restricting formatting and editing^[107]

The second and third password types were developed by Microsoft for convenient shared use of documents rather than for their protection. There is no encryption of documents that are protected by such passwords and the Microsoft Office protection system saves a hash sum of a password in a document’s header where it can be easily accessed and removed by the specialized software. Password to open a document offers much tougher protection that had been steadily enhanced in the subsequent editions of Microsoft Office.

Word 95 and all the preceding editions had the weakest protection that utilized a conversion of a password to a 16-bit key.

Key length in Word 97 and 2000 was strengthened up to 40 bit. However, modern cracking software allows removing such a password very quickly – a persistent cracking process takes one week at most. Use of rainbow tables reduces password removal time to several seconds. Some password recovery software can not only remove a password but also find an actual password that was used by a user to encrypt the document using the brute-force attack approach. Statistically, the possibility of recovering the password depends on the password strength.

Word’s 2003/XP version default protection remained the same but an option that allowed advanced users to choose a Cryptographic Service Provider was added.^[108] If a strong CSP is chosen, guaranteed document decryption becomes unavailable and, therefore, a password can’t be removed from the document. Nonetheless, a password can be fairly quickly picked with a brute-force attack, because its speed is still high regardless of the CSP selected. Moreover, since the CSPs are not active by default, their use is limited to advanced users only.

Word 2007 offers significantly more secure document protection which utilizes the modern Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that converts a password to a 128-bit key using a SHA-1 hash function 50,000 times. It makes password removal impossible (as of today, no computer that can pick the key in a reasonable amount of time exists) and drastically slows the brute-force attack speed down to several hundreds of passwords per second.

Word’s 2010 protection algorithm was not changed apart from the increasing number of SHA-1 conversions up to 100,000 times and consequently, the brute-force attack speed decreased two times more.

Reception[edit]

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Initial releases of Word were met with criticism. Byte in 1984 criticized the documentation for Word 1.1 and 2.0 for DOS, calling it «a complete farce». It called the software «clever, put together well and performs some extraordinary feats», but concluded that «especially when operated with the mouse, has many more limitations than benefits … extremely frustrating to learn and operate efficiently».^[109] PC Magazine‘s review was very mixed, stating: «I’ve run into weird word processors before, but this is the first time one’s nearly knocked me down for the count» but acknowledging that Word’s innovations were the first that caused the reviewer to consider abandoning WordStar. While the review cited an excellent WYSIWYG display, sophisticated print formatting, windows, and footnoting as merits, it criticized many small flaws, very slow performance, and «documentation produced by Madame Sadie’s Pain Palace». It concluded that Word was «two releases away from potential greatness».^[110]

Compute!’s Apple Applications in 1987 stated that «despite a certain awkwardness», Word 3.01 «will likely become the major Macintosh word processor» with «far too many features to list here». While criticizing the lack of true WYSIWYG, the magazine concluded that «Word is marvelous. It’s like a Mozart or Edison, whose occasional gaucherie we excuse because of his great gifts».^[111]

Compute! in 1989 stated that Word 5.0’s integration of text and graphics made it «a solid engine for basic desktop publishing». The magazine approved of improvements to text mode, described the $75 price for upgrading from an earlier version as «the deal of the decade» and concluded that «as a high-octane word processor, Word is worth a look».^[112]

During the first quarter of 1996, Microsoft Word accounted for 80% of the worldwide word processing market.^[113]

Release history[edit]

Legend:	Old version, not maintained	Older version, still maintained	Current stable version

Microsoft Word for Windows release history

Year released	Name	Version	Comments
1989	Word for Windows 1.0	1.0	Code-named Opus[114]
1990	Word for Windows 1.1	1.1	For Windows 3.0.[115] Code-named Bill the Cat[citation needed]
1990	Word for Windows 1.1a	1.1a	On March 25, 2014, Microsoft made the source code to Word for Windows 1.1a available to the public via the Computer History Museum.[116][117]
1991	Word for Windows 2.0	2.0	Included in Office 3.0.
1993	Word for Windows 6.0	6.0	Version numbers 3, 4, and 5 were skipped, to bring Windows version numbering in line with that of DOS, Mac OS, and WordPerfect (the main competing word processor at the time). Also, a 32-bit version for Windows NT only. Included in Office 4.0, 4.2, and 4.3.
1995	Word for Windows 95	7.0	Included in Office 95
1997	Word 97	8.0	Included in Office 97
1998	Word 98	8.5	Included in Office 97
1999	Word 2000	9.0	Included in Office 2000
2001	Word 2002	10.0	Included in Office XP
2003	Microsoft Word 2003	11.0	Included in Office 2003
2006	Microsoft Word 2007	12.0	Included in Office 2007; released to businesses on November 30, 2006, released worldwide to consumers on January 30, 2007. Extended support until October 10, 2017.
2010	Word 2010	14.0	Included in Office 2010; skipped 13.0 due to triskaidekaphobia.[118]
2013	Word 2013	15.0	Included in Office 2013
2016	Word 2016	16.0	Included in Office 2016
2019	Word 2019	16.0	Included in Office 2019
2021	Word 2021	16.0	Included in Office 2021

Microsoft Word for classic Mac OS and macOS release history

Year released	Name	Version	Comments
1985	Word 1	1.0
1987	Word 3	3.0
1989	Word 4	4.0	Part of Office 1.0 and 1.5
1991	Word 5	5.0	Part of Office 3.0 Requires System 6.0.2, 512 KB of RAM (1 MB for 5.1, 2 MB to use spell check and thesaurus), 6.5 MB available hard drive space[21]
1992	Word 5.1	5.1	Part of Office 3.0 Last version to support 68000-based Macs[21]
1993	Word 6	6.0	Part of Office 4.2 Shares code and user interface with Word for Windows 6 Requires System 7.0, 4 MB of RAM (8 MB recommended), at least 10 MB available hard drive space, 68020 CPU[21]
1998	Word 98	8.5	Part of Office 98 Macintosh Edition Requires PowerPC-based Macintosh Renumbered alongside contemporary Windows version
2000	Word 2001	9.0	Part of Microsoft Office 2001 Word 2001 is the last version that is compatible with Classic Mac OS (Mac OS 9 or earlier)
2001	Word v. X	10.0	Part of Office v. X First version for Mac OS X only
2004	Word 2004	11.0	Part of Office 2004
2008	Word 2008	12.0	Part of Office 2008
2010	Word 2011	14.0	Part of Office 2011; skipped 13.0 due to triskaidekaphobia.[118]
2015	Word 2016	16.0	Part of Office 2016; skipped 15.0
2019	Word 2019	16.0	Part of Office 2019
2021	Word 2021	16.0	Included in Office 2021

Word for MS-DOS release history

Year released	Name	Version	Comments
1983	Word 1	1.0	Initial version of Word
1985	Word 2	2.0
1986	Word 3	3.0	Removed copy protection
1987	Word 4	4.0
1989	Word 5	5.0
1991	Word 5.1	5.1
1991	Word 5.5	5.5	First DOS version to use a Windows-like user interface
1993	Word 6	6.0	Last DOS version.

Word release history on other platforms

Platform	Year released	Name	Comments
Atari ST	1988	Microsoft Write	Based on Microsoft Word 1.05 for Mac OS
OS/2	1989	Microsoft Word 5.0	Word 5.0 ran both under DOS and OS/2 dual-mode as a native OS/2 application
OS/2	1991	Microsoft Word 5.5	Word 5.5 ran both under DOS and OS/2 dual-mode as a native OS/2 application
OS/2	1990	Microsoft Word for OS/2 Presentation Manager version 1.1
OS/2	1991	Microsoft Word for OS/2 Presentation Manager version 1.2[citation needed]
SCO Unix	1990	Microsoft Word for Unix version 5.0[119]
SCO Unix	1991	Microsoft Word for Unix version 5.1[120]

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Tsang, Cheryl. Microsoft: First Generation. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-33206-0.
• Liebowitz, Stan J. & Margolis, Stephen E. Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology Oakland: Independent Institute. ISBN 978-0-945999-80-5.

External links[edit]

• Microsoft Word – official site
• Find and replace text by using regular expressions (Advanced) — archived official support website

В прошлой статье я рассказал Вам об интерфейсе и основных функция MS Word 2019. В этой, как Вы уже поняли по названию, будет рассказываться от начала создания и до последних изменений в наши дни. И так давайте начнем с определения:

Microsoft Word – текстовый процессор, предназначенный для создания, просмотра и редактирования текстовых документов, с локальным применением простейших форм таблично-матричных алгоритмов. Выпускается корпорацией Microsoft в составе пакета Microsoft Office.

Теперь узнав, что из себя представляет MS Word и кем он выпускается мы перейдем к истории.

Кто создатель знаменитого текстового процессора?

Ответ на этот вопрос мало кто знает, но все же первая версия Microsoft Word была написана Ричардом Броди для первого персонального компьютера IBM PC, использующий операционную систему DOS, в 1983 году. Сегодня Ричард является известным человеком. Он пишет интересные книги и профессионально играет в покер.

Первый текстовый процессор WYSIWYG: Xerox Bravo

Первый текстовый процессор WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get — «что видишь, то и получаешь») под названием Bravo появился задолго до того, как мир узнал о существовании Word.

В 1974 году в исследовательском центре корпорации Xerox в Пало-Альто Чарльз Симони и Батлер Лэмпсон разработали революционную программу для замечательного компьютера Xerox Alto, в котором впервые присутствовали мышь и графический пользовательский интерфейс (Graphical User Interface, GUI).

Приход Microsoft и Xenix

Получив в 1981 году приглашение от Билла Гейтса, разработчик Xerox Bravo Чарльз Симони присоединился к Microsoft. И вот как-то раз, обсуждая перспективы дальнейшего развития, Гейтс, Пол Аллен и Симони решили написать программы для электронных таблиц, текстового процессора и системы управления базами данных.

Вскоре после этого Симони пригласил еще одного бывшего сотрудника Xerox Ричарда Броди и приступил к разработке Multi-Tool Word. Решение большей части задач, связанных с программированием, легло именно на плечи Броди. Спустя некоторое время вышла первая версия Unix-подобной операционной системы Microsoft Xenix, ныне уже прекратившей свое существование. Вот так на свет появился Microsoft Word.

Первые дни DOS

Версии Word 1.0 для Xenix и MS-DOS были выпущены в октябре 1983 года. Операционные системы DOS в версиях от 1.0 до 5.0 по своему внешнему экранному представлению практически не отличались друг от друга. Первые варианты Word имели в какой-то степени противоречивый интерфейс (одни и те же клавиши выполняли разные функции в разных режимах или подменю), что объяснялось унаследованной от Bravo идеологией.

В этом смысле приложение Microsoft недалеко ушло от запутанных комбинаций функциональных клавиш своего конкурента WordPerfect (сегодня данный продукт поддерживается компанией Corel), однако вскоре на горизонте замаячил гораздо более совершенный интерфейс. Правда, для его реализации понадобился другой компьютер.

Тем временем на платформе Macintosh

В 1985 году Джеффри Харберс по настоянию Билла Гейтса возглавил команду разработчиков, которым было поручено перенести Word на недавно появившуюся на рынке платформу Apple Macintosh. Среди новых функций приложения следует отметить возможность отображения на экране шрифтов разного типа, плотности и размеров. Для Word все это было в новинку.

Добро пожаловать в Windows

Между тем, позиции Microsoft Windows устойчиво укреплялись. А потому после того успеха, который сопутствовал Microsoft на платформе Macintosh, компания выпустила версию Word и для собственной графической среды.

Версия Word 1.0 for Windows, появившаяся в 1989 году и продававшаяся за 500 долларов, унаследовала от Macintosh интерфейс, управляемый мышью, выпадающие меню и полноценную реализацию WYSIWYG.

Еще одна операционная система

В 1992 году корпорация Microsoft выпустила версию Word для операционной системы IBM OS/2, которая была почти идентична варианту для Microsoft Windows.

Любопытно, что Microsoft поддерживала также и версии Word для операционной системы SCO Unix (Xenix), которые по своим функциональным возможностям примерно соответствовали версиям для MS-DOS с аналогичными номерами.

Смена нумерации

Вслед за выпуском Microsoft Word 1.0, естественно, последовала версия Word 2.0. А вот потом произошло нечто странное. Компания WordPerfect представила весьма успешную версию своего приложения WordPerfect 6.0, бывшего в то время главным конкурентом Microsoft Word. Не желая отставать от соперников, в Microsoft решили уравнять их номера для Windows, MS-DOS и Macintosh, и в 1993 году была выпущена Word for Windows 6.0.

А чуть позже корпорация Microsoft решила совсем выйти из игры, связанной с манипулированием номерами: в очередном варианте Word для Windows вместо номера версии, был указан год. Таким образом, вслед за операционной системой Windows 95 на рынке появилось приложение Word 95.

Рождение Скрепки

В версии Word 97 появилась функция, которая сильнее всего досаждала пользователям — The Office Assistant. Помощника, который появлялся по умолчанию, звали Clippit. Он представлял собой говорящую и танцующую бумажную скрепку со слегка косящимися глазами, которая следила за достигнутыми вами успехами и советовала, что и как следует делать.

Прощай, Скрепка

В версии Word 2002 разработчики Microsoft решили использовать всеобщую неприязнь к Скрепке в маркетинговых целях. В рекламе утверждалось, что простота использования Word 2002 сделала Скрепку устаревшей.

Вместо Скрепки Microsoft представила панель задач (специальные меню, заполнявшие правую часть экрана), которая была призвана помогать пользователям гораздо менее навязчивым и раздражающим способом.

Word 2007

Начиная с этого выпуска приложение Word включает кроме стандартных опций для форматирования текстов еще и специальные средства, рассчитанные для людей с нарушениями зрения, подвижности. Это делает его доступным для широкого круга пользователей.

Разработчики редактора немало уделили времени безопасности, ведь сейчас огромное количество файлов из сети Интернет могут заключать в себе вирусы, черви, трояны и другие программы с вредоносным кодом. Чтобы избежать проблем, потенциально небезопасные файлы открываются в специальном режиме под названием – защищенный режим.

Word 2010

В версии Word 2010 функция защиты документов стала более совершенной. Теперь пользователь с помощью нескольких нажатий клавиш может быстро установить пароль на свой документ. Никто кроме обладателя пароля не сможет его открыть, как-бы не старался. Разработчики Microsoft Word 2010 добавили множество новых функций, которые найдут множество своих поклонников. Расскажу лишь о нескольких из них.

Теперь каждый готовый файл с помощью специальных возможностей будет обладать всеми присущими ему качествами профессионального вида. Данная версия теперь обеспечивает простой доступ к документу через браузер мобильного телефона, смартфона или планшета. Работа с таблицами, наборами стилей и колонтитулами теперь стала еще интереснее и привлекательнее благодаря новейшим эффектам и более удобной навигации.

Word 2013

Word 2013 содержит новые форматы нумерации с фиксированным числом знаков, как пример – 001, 002, 003 или 0001, 0002 и 0003. Также в программе улучшен параметр добавления заголовка к таблице, это позволяет предоставить читателям документа более полные сведения. В новой версии графика SmartArt стала богаче.

Word 2016

По заявлениям Microsoft, новая версия создана «с нуля», и ее производительность по сравнению с предыдущими версиями должна возрасти. При этом ключевые изменения затронули интерфейс, внедрена более тесная интеграция с Интернетом.

Настоящее время

Microsoft Word является наиболее популярным из используемых в данный момент текстовых процессоров. Он пережил много изменений в плане функциональности и интерфейса, расширил свои возможности и на сегодняшний день Microsoft Word 2019 самая последняя версия продукта, которая была выпущена 12 июня 2018 года для macOS. 27 апреля 2018 года вышла для корпоративных пользователей.

От версии 2016 она практически ничем не отличается, кроме как дополнительно новых функций, о которых Вы узнаете в новой статье.

Немного об истории Microsoft Word – одном из лучших текстовых процессоров.

Кто создатель знаменитого текстового процессора?

Ответ на этот вопрос мало кто знает: первая версия Microsoft Word была написана Ричардом Броди (Richard Brodie) для IBM PC, использующих DOS, в 1983 году. Сегодня Ричард является известным и популярным человеком, пишет интересные книги и профессионально играет в покер. Основателю ТехРайтКонсалт в свое время удалось пообщаться с ним лично, работая над этой статьей.

Первый выпуск

Microsoft Word многим обязан Bravo – текстовому процессору с оригинальным графическим интерфейсом, разработанному в исследовательском центре «Xerox PARC». Создатель Bravo Чарльз Симони (Charles Simonyi) покинул PARC в 1981 году. Тем же летом Симони переманил Броди, с которым вместе работал над Bravo. Первый выпуск для MS-DOS состоялся в конце 1983 года. Он был плохо принят рынком, продажи снижало наличие конкурирующего продукта – WordPerfect.

Однако версия для «макинтоша», выпущенная в 1985 году, получила широкое распространение. Через два года «Word 3.01 для Macintosh» усилил позиции (версия 3.0 изобиловала ошибками и быстро была заменена). Как и прочее программное обеспечение для «макинтоша», выпущенная версия была полностью WYSIWYG-редактором (принцип «What You See Is What You Get» – «получаю то, что вижу»).

Первый выпуск для Windows

Первая версия для Windows, выпущенная в 1989 году, продавалась по цене 500 долларов США. Она демонстрировала выбранный компанией «Майкрософт» путь развития: как и сама Windows, она многое взяла от Macintosh и использовала стандартные клавиатурные сокращения (например, CTRL-S для сохранения файла).

После выпуска в следующем году Windows 3.0 продажи поползли вверх (Word 1.0 гораздо лучше работал с Windows 3.0, чем с более старыми версиями Windows x386 и Windows x286), главный конкурент – WordPerfect – не смог выпустить рабочую версию под Windows, что оказалось для него смертельной ошибкой, а версия 2.0 утвердила наш текстовый процессор на позиции лидера рынка.

Последовавшие версии в истории Microsoft Word добавляли возможности, выходящие за рамки простого текстового процессора: инструменты рисования (добавление графики в документ), внедрение объектов, сравнение версий документа, мультиязычная поддержка и многие другие.

Сегодня

На сегодняшний день Microsoft Word является самым популярным текстовым процессором как у обычных людей, которым нужно просто набросать форматированный текст или реферат, так и у профессионалов своего дела.

Формат документа DOC/DOCX является на данный момент стандартом де-факто и с недавних пор является открытым, а многие даже конкурирующие программы даже имеют поддержку совместимости с этим форматом. Также возможно значительное расширение возможностей текстового процессора и автоматизация любых операций в редакторе посредством использования встроенного макроязыка VBA.

И чтобы не говорили завистники и конкуренты: если тебя выбирают миллионы – значит ты лучший!

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Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems.^[1][2][3] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS (1983), the Apple Macintosh running Mac OS (1985), the AT&T Unix PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), SCO UNIX (1994), OS/2 (1989), and Windows (1989). Commercial versions of Word are licensed as a standalone product or as a component of Microsoft Office, Windows RT or the discontinued Microsoft Works Suite. Freeware editions of Word are Microsoft Word Viewer and Word Web App on SkyDrive, both of which have limited features.

History[]

Main article: History of Microsoft Word

Origins and growth: 1981 to 1995[]

In 1981, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi, the primary developer of Bravo, the first GUI word processor, which was developed at Xerox PARC.^[4] Simonyi started work on a word processor called Multi-Tool Word and soon hired Richard Brodie, a former Xerox intern, who became the primary software engineer.^[4][5][6]

Microsoft announced Multi-Tool Word for Xenix^[4] and MS-DOS in 1983.^[7] Its name was soon simplified to Microsoft Word.^[1] Free demonstration copies of the application were bundled with the November 1983 issue of PC World, making it the first to be distributed on-disk with a magazine.^[1][8] That year Microsoft demonstrated Word running on Windows.^[9]

Unlike most MS-DOS programs at the time, Microsoft Word was designed to be used with a mouse.^[7] Advertisements depicted the Microsoft Mouse, and described Word as a WYSIWYG, windowed word processor with the ability to Undo and display bold, italic, and underlined text,^[10] although it could not render fonts.^[1] It was not initially popular, since its user interface was different from the leading word processor at the time, WordStar.^[11] However, Microsoft steadily improved the product, releasing versions 2.0 through 5.0 over the next six years.
In 1985, Microsoft ported Word to Mac OS. This was made easier by Word for DOS having been designed for use with high-resolution displays and laser printers, even though none were yet available to the general public.^[12] Following the precedents of LisaWrite and MacWrite, Word for Mac OS added true WYSIWYG features. After its release, Word for Mac OS’s sales were higher than its MS-DOS counterpart for at least four years.^[4]

The second release of Word for Mac OS, shipped in 1987, was named Word 3.0 to synchronize its version number with Word for DOS; this was Microsoft’s first attempt to synchronize version numbers across platforms. Word 3.0 included numerous internal enhancements and new features, including the first implementation of the Rich Text Format (RTF) specification, but was plagued with bugs. Within a few months, Word 3.0 was superseded by a more stable Word 3.01, which was mailed free to all registered users of 3.0.^[12] After MacWrite, Word for Mac OS never had any serious rivals. Word 5.1 for Mac OS, released in 1992, was a very popular word processor owing to its elegance, relative ease of use and feature set. Many users say it is the best version of Word for Mac OS ever created.^[12][13]

In 1986, an agreement between Atari and Microsoft brought Word to the Atari ST^[14] under the name Microsoft Write. The Atari ST version was a port of Word 1.05 for the Mac OS^[15][16] and was never updated.

The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989. With the release of Windows 3.0 the following year, sales began to pick up and Microsoft soon became the market leader for word processors for IBM PC-compatible computers.^[4] In 1991, Microsoft capitalized on Word for Windows’ increasing popularity by releasing a version of Word for DOS, version 5.5, that replaced its unique user interface with an interface similar to a Windows application.^[17][18] When Microsoft became aware of the Year 2000 problem, it made Microsoft Word 5.5 for DOS available for download free. Template:As of, it is still available for download from Microsoft’s web site.^[19]
In 1991, Microsoft embarked on a project code-named Pyramid to completely rewrite Microsoft Word from the ground up. Both the Windows and Mac OS versions would start from the same code base. It was abandoned when it was determined that it would take the development team too long to rewrite and then catch up with all the new capabilities that could have been added in the same time without a rewrite. Instead, the next versions of Word for Windows and Mac OS, dubbed version 6.0, both started from the code base of Word for Windows 2.0.^[13]

With the release of Word 6.0 in 1993, Microsoft again attempted to synchronize the version numbers and coordinate product naming across platforms, this time across DOS, Mac OS, and Windows (this was the last version of Word for DOS). It introduced AutoCorrect, which automatically fixed certain typing errors, and AutoFormat, which could reformat many parts of a document at once. While the Windows version received favorable reviews (e.g.,^[20]), the Mac OS version was widely derided. Many accused it of being slow, clumsy and memory intensive, and its user interface differed significantly from Word 5.1.^[13] In response to user requests, Microsoft offered Word 5 again, after it had been discontinued.^[21] Subsequent versions of Word for Mac OS X are no longer direct ports of Word for Windows, instead featuring a mixture of ported code and native code.

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Microsoft Word for Windows since 1995[]

A full-featured word processing program for Windows and Mac OS X from Microsoft. Available stand-alone or as part of the Microsoft Office suite, Word contains rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities and is the most widely used word processing program on the market. Word files are commonly used as the format for sending text documents via e-mail because almost every user with a computer can read a Word document by using the Word application, a Word viewer or a word processor that imports the Word format (see Microsoft Word Viewer). Word 95 for Windows was the first 32-bit version of the product, released with Office 95 around the same time as Windows 95. It was a straightforward port of Word 6.0 and it introduced few new features, one of them being red-squiggle underlined spell-checking.^[22] Starting with Word 95, releases of Word were named after the year of its release, instead of its version number.^[23]

Microsoft Word for Mac OS and OSX since 1995[]

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In 1997, Microsoft formed the Macintosh Business Unit as an independent group within Microsoft focused on writing software for Mac OS. Its first version of Word, Word 98, was released with Office 98 Macintosh Edition. Document compatibility reached parity with Word 97,^[21] and it included features from Word 97 for Windows, including spell and grammar checking with squiggles.^[24] Users could choose the menus and keyboard shortcuts to be similar to either Word 97 for Windows or Word 5 for Mac OS.

Word 2001, released in 2000, added a few new features, including the Office Clipboard, which allowed users to copy and paste multiple items.^[25] It was the last version to run on classic Mac OS and, on Mac OS X, it could only run within the Classic Environment. Word X, released in 2001, was the first version to run natively on, and required, Mac OS X,^[24] and introduced non-contiguous text selection.^[26]

Word 2004 was released in May 2004. It included a new Notebook Layout view for taking notes either by typing or by voice.^[27] Other features, such as tracking changes, were made more similar with Office for Windows.^[28]

Word 2008, released on January 15, 2008, included a Ribbon-like feature, called the Elements Gallery, that can be used to select page layouts and insert custom diagrams and images. It also included a new view focused on publishing layout, integrated bibliography management,^[29] and native support for the new Office Open XML format. It was the first version to run natively on Intel-based Macs.^[30]

Word 2010 allows more customization of the Ribbon,^[31] adds a Backstage view for file management,^[32] has improved document navigation, allows creation and embedding of screenshots,^[33] and integrates with Word Web App.^[34]

Word 2011, released in October 2010, replaced the Elements Gallery in favor of a Ribbon user interface that is much more similar to Office for Windows,^[35] and includes a full-screen mode that allows users to focus on reading and writing documents, and support for Office Web Apps.^[36]

File formats[]

File extensions[]

Microsoft Word’s native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension.

Although the .doc extension has been used in many different versions of Word, it actually encompasses four distinct file formats:

1. Word for DOS
2. Word for Windows 1 and 2; Word 4 and 5 for Mac OS
3. Word 6 and Word 95 for Windows; Word 6 for Mac OS
4. Word 97 and later for Windows; Word 98 and later for Mac OS

The newer .docx extension signifies the Office Open XML international standard for Office documents and is used by Word 2007, 2010 and 2013 for Windows, Word 2008 and 2011 for Mac OSX, as well as by a growing number of applications from other vendors, including OpenOffice.org Writer, an open source word processing program.^[37]

Binary formats (Word 97–2003)[]

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During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the default Word document format (.DOC) became a de facto standard of document file formats for Microsoft Office users. Though usually just referred to as «Word Document Format», this term refers primarily to the range of formats used by default in Word version 97-2003.
Word document files by using the Word 97-2003 Binary File Format implement OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) structured storage to manage the structure of their file format. OLE behaves rather like a conventional hard drive file system and is made up of several key components. Each Word document is composed of so-called «big blocks» which are almost always (but do not have to be) 512-byte chunks; hence a Word document’s file size will in most cases be a multiple of 512.

«Storages» are analogues of the directory on a disk drive, and point to other storages or «streams» which are similar to files on a disk. The text in a Word document is always contained in the «WordDocument» stream. The first big block in a Word document, known as the «header» block, provides important information as to the location of the major data structures in the document. «Property storages» provide metadata about the storages and streams in a doc file, such as where it begins and its name and so forth. The «File information block» contains information about where the text in a Word document starts, ends, what version of Word created the document and other attributes.

Microsoft has published specifications for the Word 97-2003 Binary File Format.^[38] However, these specifications were criticised for not documenting all of the features used by Word binary file format.^[39]

Word 2007 and later continue to support the DOC file format, although it is no longer the default.

XML Document (Word 2003)[]

Main article: Microsoft Office XML formats

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The XML format introduced in Word 2003^[40] was a simple, XML-based format called WordprocessingML.

Cross-version compatibility[]

Opening a Word Document file in a version of Word other than the one with which it was created can cause incorrect display of the document. The document formats of the various versions change in subtle and not so subtle ways (such as changing the font, or the handling of more complex tasks like footnotes). Formatting created in newer versions does not always survive when viewed in older versions of the program, nearly always because that capability does not exist in the previous version.^[41] Rich Text Format (RTF), an early effort to create a format for interchanging formatted text between applications, is an optional format for Word that retains most formatting and all content of the original document.

Third-party formats[]

Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as international standard OpenDocument format (ODF) (ISO/IEC 26300:2006), are available. Up until the release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Office 2007, Word did not natively support reading or writing ODF documents without a plugin, namely the SUN ODF Plugin or the OpenXML/ODF Translator. With SP2 installed, ODF format 1.1 documents can be read and saved like any other supported format in addition to those already available in Word 2007.^{[41][42][43][44][45]} The implementation faces substantial criticism, and the ODF Alliance and others have claimed that the third-party plugins provide better support.^[46] Microsoft later declared that the ODF support has some limitations.^[47]

In October 2005, one year before the Microsoft Office 2007 suite was released, Microsoft declared that there was insufficient demand from Microsoft customers for the international standard OpenDocument format support, and that therefore it would not be included in Microsoft Office 2007. This statement was repeated in the following months.^{[48][49][50][51]} As an answer, on October 20, 2005 an online petition was created to demand ODF support from Microsoft.^[52]

In May 2006, the ODF plugin for Microsoft Office was released by the OpenDocument Foundation.^[53] Microsoft declared that it had no relationship with the developers of the plugin.^[54]

In July 2006, Microsoft announced the creation of the Open XML Translator project – tools to build a technical bridge between the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats and the OpenDocument Format (ODF). This work was started in response to government requests for interoperability with ODF. The goal of project was not to add ODF support to Microsoft Office, but only to create a plugin and an external toolset.^[55][56] In February 2007, this project released a first version of the ODF plugin for Microsoft Word.^[57]

In February 2007, Sun released an initial version of its ODF plugin for Microsoft Office.^[58] Version 1.0 was released in July 2007.^[59]

Microsoft Word 2007 (Service Pack 1) supports (for output only) PDF and XPS formats, but only after manual installation of the Microsoft ‘Save as PDF or XPS’ add-on.^[60][61] On later releases, this was offered by default.

Image formats[]

Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art. No version of Microsoft Word has support for the common SVG vector image format.

Features and flaws[]

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Among its features, Word includes a built-in spell checker, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and utilities for manipulating and editing text. The following are some aspects of its feature set.

WordArt[]

Main article: WordArt

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WordArt enables drawing text in a Microsoft Word document such as a title, watermark, or other text, with graphical effects such as skewing, shadowing, rotating, stretching in a variety of shapes and colors and even including three-dimensional effects. Users can apply formatting effects such as shadow, bevel, glow, and reflection to their document text as easily as applying bold or underline. Users can also spell-check text that uses visual effects, and add text effects to paragraph styles.

Macros[]

A Macro is a rule of pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to an output sequence according to defined process. Frequently used or repetitive sequences of keystrokes and mouse movements can be automated.
Like other Microsoft Office documents, Word files can include advanced macros and even embedded programs. The language was originally WordBasic, but changed to Visual Basic for Applications as of Word 97.

This extensive functionality can also be used to run and propagate viruses in documents. The tendency for people to exchange Word documents via email, USB flash drives, and floppy disks made this an especially attractive vector in 1999. A prominent example was the Melissa virus, but countless others have existed.

These macro viruses were the only known cross-platform threats between Windows and Macintosh computers and they were the only infection vectors to affect any Mac OS X system up until the advent of video codec trojans in 2007. Microsoft released patches for Word X and Word 2004 that effectively eliminated the macro problem on the Mac by 2006.

Word’s macro security setting, which regulates when macros may execute, can be adjusted by the user, but in the most recent versions of Word, is set to HIGH by default, generally reducing the risk from macro-based viruses, which have become uncommon.

Layout issues[]

Before Word 2010 (Word 14) for Windows, the program was unable to correctly handle ligatures defined in TrueType fonts.^[62] Those ligature glyphs with Unicode codepoints may be inserted manually, but are not recognized by Word for what they are, breaking spell checking, while custom ligatures present in the font are not accessible at all. Since Word 2010, the program now has advanced typesetting features which can be enabled:^[63] OpenType ligatures,^[64] kerning, and hyphenation. Other layout deficiencies of Word include the inability to set crop marks or thin spaces. Various third-party workaround utilities have been developed.^[65]

In Word 2004 for Mac OS X, support of complex scripts was inferior even to Word 97,^[66] and Word 2004 does not support Apple Advanced Typography features like ligatures or glyph variants.^[67]

Bullets and numbering[]

Word has extensive lists of bullets and numbering features used for tables, lists, pages, chapters, headers, footnotes, and tables of content. Bullets and numbering can be applied directly or using a button or by applying a style or through use of a template.
Some problems with numbering have been found in Word 97-2003, such as Word’s system for restarting numbering.^[68] The Bullets and Numbering system has been significantly overhauled for Office 2007, which drastically reduces these problems.

Users can also create tables in Word. Depending on the version, Word can perform simple calculations. Formulae are supported as well.

AutoSummarize[]

AutoSummarize highlights passages or phrases that it considers valuable. The amount of text to be retained can be specified by the user as a percentage of the current amount of text.

According to Ron Fein of the Word 97 team, AutoSummarize cuts wordy copy to the bone by counting words and ranking sentences. First, AutoSummarize identifies the most common words in the document (barring «a» and «the» and the like) and assigns a «score» to each word — the more frequently a word is used, the higher the score. Then, it «averages» each sentence by adding the scores of its words and dividing the sum by the number of words in the sentence — the higher the average, the higher the rank of the sentence. «It’s like the ratio of wheat to chaff,» explains Fein.^[69]

AutoSummarize was removed from Microsoft Word for Mac OS X 2011, although it was present in Word for Mac 2008. AutoSummarize was removed from the Office 2010 release version (14) as well.^[70]

Password protection[]

Main article: Microsoft Office password protection

There are three password types that can be set in Microsoft Word:

• password to open a document^[71]
• password to modify a document^[71]
• password restricting formatting and editing ^[72]

The second and the third type of passwords were developed by Microsoft for convenient shared use of documents rather than for their protection. There’s no encryption of documents that are protected by such passwords, and Microsoft Office protection system saves a hash sum of a password in a document’s header where it can be easily accessed and removed by the specialized software.
Password to open a document offers much tougher protection that had been steadily enhanced in the subsequent editions of Microsoft Office.

Word 95 and all the preceding editions had the weakest protection that utilized a conversion of a password to a 16-bit key.

Key length in Word 97 and 2000 was strengthened up to 40 bit. However, modern cracking software allows removing such a password very quickly – a persistent cracking process takes one week at most. Use of rainbow tables reduces password removal time to several seconds. Some password recovery software can not only remove a password, but also find an actual password that was used by a user to encrypt the document using brute-force attack approach. Statistically, the possibility of recovering the password depends on the password strength.

Word’s 2003/XP version default protection remained the same but an option that allowed advanced users choosing a Cryptographic Service Provider was added.^[73] If a strong CSP is chosen, guaranteed document decryption becomes unavailable, and therefore a password can’t be removed from the document. Nonetheless, a password can be fairly quickly picked with brute-force attack, because its speed is still high regardless of the CSP selected. Moreover, since the CSPs are not active by the default, their use is limited to advanced users only.

Word 2007 offers a significantly more secure document protection which utilizes the modern Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that converts a password to a 128-bit key using a SHA-1 hash function 50000 times. It makes password removal impossible (as of today, no computer that can pick the key in reasonable amount of time exists), and drastically slows the brute-force attack speed down to several hundreds of passwords per second.

Word’s 2010 protection algorithm was not changed apart from increasing number of SHA-1 conversions up to 100000 times, and consequently, the brute-force attack speed decreased two times more.

Reception[]

BYTE in 1984 criticized the documentation for Word 1.1 and 2.0 for DOS, calling it «a complete farce». It called the software «clever, put together well, and performs some extraordinary feats», but concluded that «especially when operated with the mouse, has many more limitations than benefits … extremely frustrating to learn and operate efficiently».^[74] PC MagazineTemplate:’s review was very mixed, stating «I’ve run into weird word processors before, but this is the first time one’s nearly knocked me down for the count» but acknowledging that Word’s innovations were the first that caused the reviewer to consider abandoning WordStar. While the review cited an excellent WYSIWYG display, sophisticated print formatting, windows, and footnoting as merits, it criticized many small flaws, very slow performance, and «documentation apparently produced by Madame Sadie’s Pain Palace». It concluded that Word was «two releases away from potential greatness».^[75]

Release history[]

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Microsoft Word for Windows release history

Year Released	Name	Version	Comments
1989	Word for Windows 1.0
1990	Word for Windows 1.1	1.1	Code-named Bill the Cat
1990	Word for Windows 1.1a	1.1a	For Windows 3.1
1991	Word for Windows 2.0	2.0	Code-named Spaceman Spiff
1993	Word for Windows 6.0	6.0	Code-named T3 (renumbered 6 to bring Windows version numbering in line with that of DOS version, Mac OS version and also WordPerfect, the main competing word processor at the time; also a 32-bit version for Windows NT only)
1995	Word 95	7.0	Included in Office 95
1997	Word 97	8.0	Included in Office 97
1998	Word 98	8.5	Only sold as part of Office 97 Powered By Word 98, which was only available in Japan and Korea.
1999	Word 2000	9.0	Included in Office 2000
2001	Word 2002	10.0	Included in Office XP
2003	Office Word 2003	11.0	Included in Office 2003
2006	Office Word 2007	12.0	Included in Office 2007; released to businesses on November 30, 2006, released worldwide to consumers on January 30, 2007
2010	Word 2010	14.0	Included in Office 2010
2013	Word 2013	15.0	Included in Office 2013

Note: Version number 13 was skipped due to superstition.^[76]

Microsoft Word for Mac OS and Mac OS X release history

Year Released	Name	Comments
1985	Word 1
1987	Word 3
1989	Word 4	Part of Office 1.0 and 1.5
1991	Word 5	Part of Office 3.0 Requires System 6.0.2, 512 KB of RAM (1 MB for 5.1, 2 MB to use spell check and thesaurus), 6.5 MB available hard drive space[12]
1992	Word 5.1	Part of Office 3.0 Last version to support 68000-based Macs[12]
1993	Word 6	Part of Office 4.2 Shares code and user interface with Word for Windows 6 Requires System 7.0, 4 MB of RAM (8 MB recommended), at least 10 MB available hard drive space, 68020 CPU[12]
1998	Word 98	Part of Office 98 Macintosh Edition Requires PowerPC-based Macintosh
2000	Word 2001	Part of Microsoft Office 2001 Last version compatible with Classic (OS 9 or earlier) Mac OS
2001	Word v. X	Part of Office v. X First version for Mac OS X only
2004	Word 2004	Part of Office 2004
2008	Word 2008	Part of Office 2008
2010	Word 2011	Part of Office 2011

Word for MS-DOS release history

Year released	Name	Comments
1983	Word 1
1985	Word 2
1986	Word 3
1987	Word 4
1989	Word 5
1991	Word 5.1
1991	Word 5.5	First DOS version to use a Windows-like user interface
1993	Word 6.0

Word release history on other platforms

Platform	Year released	Name	Comments
Atari ST	1988	Microsoft Write	Based on Microsoft Word 1.05 for Mac OS
OS/2	1989	Microsoft Word 5.0	Word 5.0 ran both under DOS and under OS/2 dual mode as a native OS/2 application
OS/2	1991	Microsoft Word 5.5	Word 5.5 ran both under DOS and under OS/2 dual mode as a native OS/2 application
OS/2	1990	Microsoft Word for OS/2 Presentation Manager version 1.1
OS/2	1991	Microsoft Word for OS/2 Presentation Manager version 1.2
SCO Unix	1994-1995	Microsoft Word for Unix version 5.1

References[]

Further reading[]

• Tsang, Cheryl. Microsoft: First Generation. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 978-0-471-33206-0.
• Liebowitz, Stan J. & Margolis, Stephen E. Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology Oakland: Independent Institute. ISBN 978-0-945999-80-5.

External links[]

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• Microsoft Word home page
• The Word Object Model
• Changing the Normal.dot file in Microsoft templates
• Microsoft Word 1.0 for Macintosh screenshots
• The Word MVP Site
• Microsoft Word Spelling and Grammar Check Demonstration
• WordPerfect vs Word—detailed version-by-version, feature-by-feature comparison of Microsoft Word and WordPerfect

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Прародителем Microsoft Word является программа Bravo, которая представляла из себя текстовый редактор с оригинальным графическим интерфейсом, который был разработан в исследовательском центре «Xerox PARC». А разработчика Bravo Чарльза Симони переманили в Microsoft. Он стал заниматься разработкой текстового редактора для Windows в 1981 году.

Впервые Word был выпущен 25 октября 1983 года под названием Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Позже название сильно сократят, оставив только слов Word.

Первый выпуск Word для MS-DOS произошёл в 1983 году, но был принят общественностью крайне плохо, поскольку программа уступала главному конкуренту — программе WordPerfect от компании Corel.

WordPerfect довольно быстро вытеснил большинство конкурентов с рынка текстовых редакторов, особенно после выпуска 4.2 в 1986 году, и он стал де-факто стандартом на рынке DOS версии 5.1 в 1989 году.

Оказывается, что Word был создан сначала для операционных систем Apple (1985 г.), после для компьютеров Атари (1988 г.) и OS/2 (1989 г.). Для операционных систем Winsdows текстовый процессор был выпущен лишь в 1989 году.

Версия для «макинтоша», выпущенная в 1985 году, не получила широкого распространение из-за наличия багов в программе. Разработчики из Microsoft спешили презентовать программу и уделили крайне мало времени тестированию из-за чего проект оказался «сырым».

Хотя MS-DOS и являлась операционной системой, лишённой графической оболочки, Word для DOS стал первым текстовым процессором для IBM PC, который был способен отображать разметку текста, например, полужирный или курсивный текст в процессе форматирования. Однако он всё же не был в полном смысле WYSIWYG-редактором.

Особенности и недостатки

В отличие от большинства программ MS-DOS, Microsoft Word был разработан как продукт, совместимый с мышью. Другие же текстовые программы (например, WordStar и WordPerfect) использовали простой текстовый экран с кодами разметки, иногда текст был цветным.

Однако, поскольку в большинстве программного обеспечения под DOS применялись собственные трудные для запоминания комбинации «горячих клавиш» для каждой команды (например, в Word’е для DOS сохранение файла выполнялось по комбинации ESC-T-S) и большинство секретарей и менеджеров умели применять лишь сочетания горячих клавиш от WordPerfect, компании-пользователи WordPerfect с трудностями переходили на конкурирующие с ним продукты, даже если те имели преимущества.

Лидерство на рынке

Word стал набирать популярность после выпуска операционной системы Windows 3.0 продажи поползли вверх. Продажи текстового процессора Word начали возрастать, поскольку основной конкурент WordPerfect так и не смог выпустить рабочую версию под Windows в короткие сроки.

Первая версия Word для Windows, выпущенная в 1989 году, продавалась по $ 500 за штуку.

The Microsoft Word word processor was first introduced for MS-DOS in 1983. Its design made use of a mouse and WYSIWYG graphics. Its crude WYSIWYG/mouse support was a direct response to the Apple Lisa/Mac, and VisiCorp Visi On. Initially it competed against many popular word processors such as WordStar, Multimate, and WordPerfect. Word for DOS was never really successful.

The Mac version was introduced in 1985 where it acquired a friendlier user interface and gained some popularity. A Microsoft Windows version was introduced in 1989, although Palantir WinText, NBI Legend, and Samna AMI/AMI Pro had beaten them to their own Windows platform. For a time Word for Windows competed with WordPerfect for Windows. There were also ports to OS/2, the Atari ST, and Unix.

The DOS, Mac, and Windows versions are quite different from each other, and each restarted their version numbering at «1.0». Later versions are bundled with Microsoft Office. Also see a complete list of word processors archived on Winworld.

Первая версия Microsoft Word был разработан Чарльз Симони и Ричард Броди, бывший Ксерокс нанятые программисты к Билл Гейтс и Пол Аллен в 1981 году. Оба программиста работали над Ксерокс Браво, первый WYSIWYG (Что вы видите, то и получаете) текстовый редактор. Первая версия Word, Word 1.0, была выпущена в октябре 1983 г. для Xenix и MS-DOS; за ним последовали четыре очень похожие версии, которые не имели большого успеха. Первая версия Windows была выпущена в 1989 году с немного улучшенным интерфейсом. Когда Windows 3.0 была выпущена в 1990 году, Word имел огромный коммерческий успех. За Word для Windows 1.0 последовали Word 2.0 в 1991 году и Word 6.0 в 1993 году. Затем он был переименован в Word 95 и Word 97, Word 2000 и Word для Office XP (чтобы следовать коммерческим названиям Windows). С выпуском Word 2003 нумерация снова была основана на годах. С тех пор версии Windows включают Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016 и, совсем недавно, Word для Office 365.

В 1986 году соглашение между Atari и Microsoft представили Word в Atari ST.^[1] Версия Atari ST была переводом Word 1.05 для Apple Macintosh; однако он был выпущен под названием Microsoft Write (название текстового процессора, входящего в состав Windows в 80-х и начале 90-х годов).^[2][3] В отличие от других версий Word, версия для Atari была единовременным выпуском без будущих обновлений или исправлений. Выпуск Microsoft Write был одним из двух основных приложений для ПК, выпущенных для Atari ST (второе приложение — WordPerfect). Microsoft Write была выпущена для Atari ST в 1988 году.

В 2014 г. исходный код для Word для Windows в версии 1.1a был доступен для Музей истории компьютеров и общественность в образовательных целях.^[4][5]

Слово для DOS

Первый Microsoft Word был выпущен в 1983 году. Он отличался графическим видеорежимом и поддержкой мыши в интерфейсе WYSIWYG. Он мог работать в текстовом или графическом режиме, но визуальная разница между ними была незначительной. В графическом режиме документ и интерфейс визуализировались в моноширинной символьной сетке с фиксированным размером шрифта с курсивом, полужирным шрифтом и подчеркиванием, которые были недоступны в текстовом режиме. Он имел поддержку таблиц стилей в отдельных файлах (.STY).

Первая версия Word представляла собой 16-битное приложение для ПК DOS / MS-DOS. Версия Word 1.0 для Macintosh 68000 была выпущена в 1985 году, а версия Microsoft Windows была выпущена в 1989 году. Эти три продукта имели одно и то же имя Microsoft Word, одинаковые номера версий, но были очень разными продуктами, построенными на разной кодовой базе. Сосуществовали три линейки продуктов: от Word 1.0 до Word 5.1a.^[6] для Macintosh — от Word 1.0 до Word 2.0 для Windows и от Word 1.0 до Word 5.5 для DOS.

Word 1.1 для DOS был выпущен в 1984 году и добавил поддержку слияния печати, эквивалентную функции слияния почты в новых системах Word.

Word 2.0 для DOS был выпущен в 1985 году и имел поддержку расширенного графического адаптера (EGA).

В Word 3.0 для DOS, выпущенном в 1986 году, добавлена ​​поддержка меток исправлений (эквивалентная функции отслеживания изменений в более поздних версиях Word), поиск / замена по стилю и макросы, сохраненные в виде последовательностей нажатий клавиш.

Word 4.0 для DOS был выпущен в 1987 году.

В Word 5.0 для DOS, выпущенном в 1989 году, добавлена ​​поддержка закладок, перекрестных ссылок, условий и циклов в макросах, оставаясь обратно совместимой с макросами Word 3.0. Макроязык отличался от макроязыка WinWord 1.0 WordBasic.

Word 5.5 для DOS, выпущенный в 1990 году, значительно изменил пользовательский интерфейс с помощью всплывающих меню и диалоговых окон. Даже в графическом режиме эти элементы графического интерфейса пользователя (GUI) приобрели моноширинный вид ASCII, который можно найти в программах текстового режима, таких как Microsoft QuickBasic.

Word 6.0 для DOS, последняя версия Word для DOS, была выпущена в 1993 году одновременно с Word 6.0 для Windows (16 бит) и Word 6.0 для Macintosh. Хотя версии для Macintosh и Windows использовали одну и ту же базу кода, Word для DOS был другим. Макроязык Word 6.0 для DOS был совместим с макроязыком Word 3.x-5.x, в то время как Word 6.0 для Windows и Word 6.0 для Macintosh унаследовали WordBasic от базы кода Word 1.0 / 2.0 для Windows. Версии Word 6.0 для DOS и Windows имели разные форматы файлов.

Word для Windows с 1989 по 1995 год

Первая версия Word для Windows была выпущена в ноябре 1989 г. по цене Долл. США 498, но не пользовался большой популярностью, поскольку пользователи Windows по-прежнему составляли меньшинство рынка.^[7] В следующем году, Windows 3.0 дебютировал, а вскоре после этого вышел WinWord 1.1, который был обновлен для новой ОС. Неспособность WordPerfect создать версию для Windows оказалась фатальной ошибкой. В следующем году, в 1991 году, был выпущен WinWord 2.0, в котором были внесены дальнейшие улучшения и, наконец, укрепилось доминирование Word на рынке. WinWord 6.0 вышел в 1993 году и был разработан для недавно выпущенного Windows 3.1.^[8]

Ранние версии Word также включали защита от копирования механизмы, которые пытались обнаружить отладчики, и если он был найден, он выдавал сообщение «Древо зла приносит горькие плоды. Только Тень знает. Сейчас уничтожает программный диск». и выполнил нулевой поиск на дискете (но не удалил ее содержимое).^[9][10][11]

После MacWrite, Слово для Macintosh серьезных соперников никогда не было, хотя такие программы, как Нисус Писатель предоставляли такие функции, как прерывистый выбор, которые не были добавлены до Word 2002 в Office XP. Word 5.1 для Macintosh, выпущенный в 1992 году, был очень популярным. текстовый редактор благодаря своей элегантности, относительной простоте использования и набору функций. Однако версия 6.0 для Macintosh, выпущенная в 1994 году, в отличие от версии для Windows, подверглась широкому осмеянию. Это была первая версия Word, основанная на общей кодовой базе версий для Windows и Mac; многие обвиняли версию для Mac в медлительности, неуклюжести и интенсивном использовании памяти.

С выпуском Word 6.0 в 1993 году Microsoft снова попыталась синхронизировать номера версий и координировать именование продуктов на разных платформах; на этот раз в трех версиях для DOS, Macintosh и Windows (где предыдущей версией был Word для Windows 2.0). Также можно было подумать о сопоставлении текущей версии 6.0 WordPerfect для DOS и Windows, главного конкурента Word. Однако это была последняя версия Word для DOS. Кроме того, последующие версии Word больше не назывались по номеру версии, а вместо этого назывались по году их выпуска (например, Word 95 для Windows, синхронизирующее его имя с Windows 95 и Word 98 для Macintosh), что снова нарушало синхронизация.

Когда Microsoft стало известно о Проблема 2000 года, он выпустил весь порт Microsoft Word 5.5 для DOS вместо того, чтобы заставлять людей платить за обновление. По состоянию на ноябрь 2019 года он все еще доступен для загрузки с веб-сайта Microsoft.^[12]

Word 6.0 был второй попыткой разработать версию Word с общей кодовой базой. Первая под кодовым названием Pyramid была попыткой полностью переписать существующий продукт. Он был заброшен, когда Крис Питерс заменил Джеффа Райкса на посту ведущего разработчика проекта Word.^[13] и решил, что команде разработчиков потребуется слишком много времени, чтобы переписать, а затем наверстать упущенное со всеми новыми возможностями, которые можно было бы добавить в то же время без переписывания. Таким образом, Word 6.0 для Windows и Macintosh были производными от Word 2.0 для Windows. Номера версий Word от 3.0 до 5.0 для Windows были пропущены (за пределами региональных стандартов DBCS), чтобы номера версий были согласованы между версиями Macintosh и Windows. Сторонники Pyramid утверждали, что он был бы быстрее, меньше и стабильнее, чем продукт, который в конечном итоге был выпущен для Macintosh и который был скомпилирован с использованием бета-версии Visual C ++ 2.0, нацеленной на Macintosh, поэтому многие оптимизации должны быть изменены. выкл. (версия Office 4.2.1 скомпилирована с использованием финальной версии) и иногда использовать включенную библиотеку моделирования Windows API.^[14] Pyramid была бы по-настоящему кроссплатформенной, с машинно-независимым кодом приложения и небольшим посредническим уровнем между приложением и Операционная система.

Более поздние версии Word для Macintosh больше не являются перенесенными версиями Word для Windows.

Более поздние версии Word имеют больше возможностей, чем просто обработка текста. Инструмент для рисования позволяет просто настольная издательская система операции, такие как добавление графики в документы.

Microsoft Office

Слово 95

Word 95 был выпущен как часть Office 95 и имел номер 7.0, как и все компоненты Office. Он работал исключительно на платформе Win32, но в остальном имел несколько новых функций. Формат файла не изменился.

Слово 97

Word 97 имел ту же общую производительность, что и более поздние версии, такие как Word 2000. Это была первая копия Word с Офисный помощник, «Clippit», анимированный помощник, используемый во всех программах Office. Это был переход от ранее запущенной концепции в Майкрософт Боб. Word 97 представил язык программирования макросов Visual Basic для приложений (VBA), который по-прежнему используется в Word 2016.

Слово 98

Word 98 для Macintosh получил многие функции Word 97 и был включен в пакет Macintosh Office 98. Совместимость документов достигла паритета с Office 97, и Word для Mac стал жизнеспособной бизнес-альтернативой своему аналогу в Windows. К сожалению, Word на Mac в этом и последующих выпусках также стал уязвим для будущих макровирусов, которые могли скомпрометировать документы Word (и Excel), что привело к единственной ситуации, когда вирусы могли быть кроссплатформенными. Версия для Windows была только в комплекте с японским / корейским Microsoft Office 97 Powered By Word 98 и не могла быть приобретена отдельно. Затем он был выпущен в тот же период.

Word 2000

Word 2001 / Word X

Word 2001 был включен в состав Macintosh Office для этой платформы, получая большую часть, если не весь набор функций Word 2000. Выпущенное в октябре 2000 года, Word 2001 также продавалось как отдельный продукт. Версия Word X для Macintosh, выпущенная в 2001 году, была первой версией, которая изначально работала (и требовалась). Mac OS X.

Word 2002 / XP

Word 2002 входил в состав Office XP и был выпущен в 2001 году. Он имел многие из тех же функций, что и Word 2000, но имел новую важную функцию, называемую «Панели задач», которая позволяла быстрее получать информацию и управлять многими функциями, которые были раньше было доступно только в модальных диалоговых окнах. Одной из ключевых рекламных стратегий программного обеспечения было удаление Office Assistant в пользу новой справочной системы, хотя по умолчанию она была просто отключена.

Word 2003

Microsoft Office 2003 — это офисный пакет, разработанный и распространяемый Microsoft для своей операционной системы Windows. Office 2003 был выпущен в производство 19 августа 2003 года, а затем был выпущен в розничную продажу 21 октября 2003 года. Он был преемником Office XP и предшественником Office 2007.

Word 2004

В мае 2004 года была выпущена новая версия Office для Macintosh. Существенная очистка различных приложений (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) и обеспечение равенства функций с Office 2003 (для Майкрософт Виндоус ) создал очень удобный выпуск. На протяжении многих лет Microsoft выпускала исправления для устранения большинства известных макро-уязвимостей в этой версии. Хотя Apple выпустила Pages, а сообщество разработчиков открытого исходного кода создало NeoOffice, Word остается наиболее широко используемым текстовым процессором на Macintosh. Office 2004 для Mac — это версия Microsoft Office, разработанная для Mac OS X. Она эквивалентна Office 2003 для Windows. Программное обеспечение изначально было написано для компьютеров Mac PowerPC, поэтому компьютеры Mac с процессорами Intel должны запускать программу под слоем эмуляции Rosetta Mac OS X. Также: Стабильный выпуск: v11.6.6 / 13 декабря 2011 г .; 7 лет назад

Word 2007

Релиз включает множество изменений, в том числе новый формат файлов на основе XML, переработанный интерфейс, встроенный редактор формул и библиографический управление. Кроме того, был представлен пакет данных XML, доступный через объектную модель и формат файла, названный Custom XML — его можно использовать в сочетании с новой функцией, называемой Content Controls, для реализации структурированных документов. Он также имеет контекстные вкладки, функциональность которых характерна только для объекта с фокусом, и многие другие функции, такие как Live Preview (который позволяет просматривать документ без внесения каких-либо постоянных изменений), мини-панель инструментов, супер-всплывающие подсказки, панель быстрого доступа, SmartArt и т. Д.

Word 2007 использует новый формат файла под названием docx. Пользователи Word 2000–2003 в системах Windows могут установить бесплатное дополнение под названием «Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack», чтобы иметь возможность открывать, редактировать и сохранять новые файлы Word 2007.^[15] В качестве альтернативы Word 2007 можно сохранить в старом формате документа Word 97–2003.^[16][17]

Word 2008

Word 2008 был выпущен 15 января 2008 года. Он включает некоторые новые функции Word 2007, такие как ленточная функция, которую можно использовать для выбора макетов страниц и вставки настраиваемых диаграмм и изображений. Word 2008 также имеет встроенную поддержку нового формата Office Open XML, хотя старый формат документа можно установить по умолчанию.^[18]Microsoft Office 2008 для Mac — это версия пакета продуктов Microsoft Office для Mac OS X. Он заменяет Office 2004 для Mac и является эквивалентом Office 2007 для Mac OS X. Office 2008 был разработан подразделением Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit и выпущен 15 января. , 2008.

Word 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 — это версия пакета Microsoft Office для повышения производительности для Microsoft Windows. Office 2010 был выпущен в производство 15 апреля 2010 года, а позже стал доступен для розничной и онлайн-покупки 15 июня 2010 года. Он является преемником Office 2007 и предшественником Office 2013.

Word 2011

Слово 2013

Выпуск Word 2013 улучшил внешний вид Word, и в этой версии основное внимание уделяется Облачные вычисления с автоматическим сохранением документов в Один диск (ранее Skydrive). Если включено, документы и настройки перемещаются вместе с пользователем. Другими примечательными особенностями являются новый режим чтения, который позволяет горизонтальную прокрутку страниц в столбцах, закладку, чтобы найти, где пользователь остановился, читая свой документ, и открытие PDF-документов в Word, как и содержимое Word. Версия, выпущенная для Windows 8 операционная система модифицирована для использования с сенсорный экран и на планшетах. Это первая версия Word, в которой нет запускать на Windows XP или же Виндоус виста.^[19]

Word 2016

9 июля 2015 года был выпущен Microsoft Word 16. Функции включают в себя параметры «Скажи мне», «Поделиться» и ускоренное форматирование фигур. Другие полезные функции включают совместную работу в реальном времени, которая позволяет пользователям хранить документы в Share Point или OneDrive, а также улучшенную историю версий и интеллектуальный инструмент поиска. Как обычно, вышло несколько редакций программы, в том числе для дома и для бизнеса.

Word 2019

В Word 2019 добавлена ​​поддержка Масштабируемая векторная графика, Переводчик Microsoft, и Латекс, а также расширенные возможности рисования.^[20]

Word входит в состав Office 365

Microsoft Office 365 — это бесплатная / платная подписка на классические приложения Office.

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дальнейшее чтение

• Цанг, Шерил. Microsoft: первое поколение. Нью-Йорк: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN  0-471-33206-2.
• Либовиц, Стэн Дж. И Марголис, Стивен Э. ПОБЕДИТЕЛИ, ПОБЕДИТЕЛИ И МИКРОСОФТ: Конкуренция и антимонопольное законодательство в области высоких технологий Окленд: Независимый институт. ISBN  0-945999-80-1.

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• Домашняя страница Microsoft Word
• Объектная модель Word
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Microsoft Word, known also just as ‘Word’ is word processing software and a flagship product of Microsoft.

It is an integral part of the Microsoft Office suite of products and is the most widely-used word processor in the world. In fact, it’s estimated that Word is running on more than a billion devices worldwide.

First released in 1983 under a different name, Word celebrated its 25^th birthday in 2018. Its popularity lies in its ease of use, plus the fact that it can be used on different operating systems including Macintosh and of course, Windows.

Word can be bought as a standalone product or as a part of Microsoft Office, which also includes programs like Excel and PowerPoint.

So, just how did Word come to dominate the market during the last 25 years and become the most-used word processing software in the world? And what does the future hold for the product?

Rise to popularity

The first ever version of Microsoft Word — Word 1.0 — was launched in October 1983 and developed by former Xerox programmers, Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie. The two were hired by Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, in 1981. At this time, Word was called Multi-Tool Word. It was designed for use on computers that ran the UNIX operating system.

Word was a WYSIWYG (‘what you see is what you get’) program. This meant that however a document looked on screen was how it would look once printed. Word let users create, save and print text documents, but it wasn’t an instant success; perhaps because it was competing with the hugely popular WordPerfect and WordStar word processing programs.

Version 2.0 was released in 1985, with added features including spellcheck and word count.

Over the following years, Microsoft re-coded the program a number of times so that it could work on different operating systems, including DOS (disk operating system) and Macintosh. The name was also changed to the shorter and more memorable ‘Word’.

In 1993, Microsoft released Word 6.0 which worked on Macintosh, Windows and DOS. Word 6.0 was the last version created to run on DOS and the last version to be identified by version number; subsequent versions were named after their year of release.

Since then, Microsoft has released a new version of Word at least every two years. The most recent release was at the end of 2018, with Word 2019, part of Office 365.

The future of Word

Today, Word and the whole Office suite is highly-integrated and runs on OS X, Android and iOS, as well as Windows. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, has said that Office is the company’s most important API (application programming interface).

The latest version of the software is Word 2019. Like its spreadsheet counterpart, Excel, Word has been given a number of updates to improve its functionality and ensure it keeps up with the changing computing times.

Recent new features of Word include:

• Translator — Word can now translate words and sentences into other languages using the Microsoft Translator tool, which sits under the Review tab. This function has also been added to Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint.
• Learning Tools — this feature helps make your documents easy to comprehend and helps with reading fluency. Use it to change column width for improved focus, page colour so the page can be scanned with less eye strain, and show breaks between syllables to improve word recognition and pronunciation. You can also use this tool to read your document aloud to you.
• Digital pen — if you have a touch-enabled device, the latest version of Word (and other Office products) lets you draw with your finger, a mouse or a digital pen for easy annotation and note-taking.
• Icons and SVGs (scalable vector graphics) — Word now has a library of icons and 3D images which can be inserted into documents to make them more visually appealing and to make an impact. Users can change colours and apply effects.