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  2. Microsoft Word - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Word is a word processor program developed by Microsoft.It was first released on October 25, 1983, [10] under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. [11] [12] [13] 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 ...

  3. History of Microsoft Word - Wikipedia

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    History of Microsoft Word. The first version of Microsoft Word was developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie, former Xerox programmers hired by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1981. Both programmers worked on Xerox Bravo, the first WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) word processor.

  4. Word - Wikipedia

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    A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. [1] Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no consensus among linguists on its definition and numerous attempts to find specific criteria of the concept remain controversial. [2 ...

  5. Microsoft Office - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Word is a word processor included in Microsoft Office and some editions of the now-discontinued Microsoft Works. The first version of Word, released in the autumn of 1983, was for the MS-DOS operating system and introduced the computer mouse to more users.

  6. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Artur Phleps (29 November 1881 – 21 September 1944) was an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and Nazi officer who was an SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS in the Waffen-SS during World War II. He was an Austro-Hungarian Army officer before and during World War I. During the interwar period, he joined the Romanian Army and became an ...

  7. Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The size of the English Wikipedia can be measured in terms of the number of articles, number of words, number of pages, and the size of the database, among other ways. As of 18 September 2024, there are 6,884,450 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.6 billion words (giving an average of about 681 words per article).

  8. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 [20] as a single English-language edition at www.wikipedia.com, [W 6] and was announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. [22] The name originated from a blend of the words wiki and encyclopedia. [23] [24] Its integral policy of "neutral point-of-view" [W 7] was codified in its first few months.

  9. Word processor program - Wikipedia

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    Word processor program. A word processor program is an application program that provides word processing functions. The most basic of them include input, editing, formatting, and output of rich text. The functions of a word processor program fall somewhere between those of a simple text editor and a fully functioned desktop publishing program.