History of Microsoft Word

  • Thread starter Thread starter Pradeep Kumar
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Hi Pradeep,

Perhaps this excerpt from Richard Brodie, an acquaintence of mine and
Chris Purillo's (Lockergnome) mentor, one of the
original author's of MS Word would be helpful :)
http://www.memecentral.com/mylife.htm

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I want to know the genesis of Microsoft Word >>
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Hope that helps,

Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office Products family MVP
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Bob, what the author tells about the history of Word is intriguing, but
he barely starts before he stops.

Larry
 
Pradeep Kumar said:
I want to know the genesis of Microsoft Word


Hi Pradeep,

One interesting tidbit of trivia:

~~~~~~~~~
Q7. In 1983, the subscribers of PC World received a free demo floppy with
the magazine. This was probably the first time in history that a magazine
featured a floppy bind in. Now a days this practice is pretty common with
magazines giving away CDs instead of floppies. What product was introduced
to the subscribers via that floppy?
A. Word for MS-DOS 1.0

~~~~~~~~~
(from: http://www.rootshell.be/~dhar/linuxquiz.html)

Greetings,
Klaus
 
If you need an illustration:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Services/Museum/digitalchicago/word.jpg
(there's a TIF with a much higher resolution in the same folder)

Klaus
 
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