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Today, who doesn't know Microsoft Word the word processor designed by Microsoft?

We used it to make a boring or interesting paper at school, to write an important letter or a CV, to write a news or better... to compose a beautiful love letter for dlb!

In brief, we all had more or less a story with Word !


So today I suggest you to discover the evolution of the interface designs, home pages and logos of Microsoft Word for Windows and Mac.


And we begin with:

a screenshot of Microsoft Word 5.0 graphic interface (1983) under MS-DOS



Microsoft Word 1.0 for Macintosh (1983)



Microsoft Word 5.1a for Macintosh (1985)



Microsoft Word 1.0 for Windows (1989)



Microsoft Word 5.5 (1991 for MS-DOS)



Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows (1994)



Microsoft Word 97 for Windows (1996)



Microsoft Word 2003



Microsoft Word 2007



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Microsoft will offer for sale their suite Office 2010 at Springtime with the new version of Word.






We continue with the evolution of several Word's home page from Guidebook

Here are some examples :







Home page of Microsoft Word 2007, the version that I currently use.



And also Word 2010 home page Technical Preview :




You can also discover some logos of Word whose the one of Word 2010.





I don't know for you, but for me, my first computer was the computer of my father, a TO9 (Thomson).



On TO9, Word didn't exist yet, the word processor software was Paragraphe. And we have kept it a long time, a very very long time...



So I discovered Word when we bought a computer with Windows 95, it was Word 6.0.

And you, when did you first use Word ? Which version?

Now, which version do you use?