Microsoft Word gets legal
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft Word is celebrating a milestone this yearit is coming of age as it enters its eighteenth year.
This ubiquitous word processing program began its life as "Bravo," the first WYSIWYG document preparation program that was brought to Microsoft in 1981 by Charles Simonyi, who is regarded by many as the father of Word, from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.
Microsoft's official Word development team was given the green light in 1982, and the first version featuring WYSIWYG was released in 1983, but the application was not officially released as Word for Windows until 1989, which is the date Microsoft regards as its birthday.