The 1960's had computers. I remember watching a news show where a "computer" was "singing" 'Bicycle built for two' (this was in the early-mid 1960's). But the damned thing was the size of a small ...

Evelyn Berezin, a computer scientist who designed the world's first word processor, has died at the age of 93. In addition to revolutionizing how the world writes, Berezin also developed the first ...

Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died at 93 this week. She was most known as the designer of the first true word-processing computer. But she designed many other innovative computing systems and ...

Windows has a few good word processors available, but when it comes to the majority of users, the free LibreOffice should serve any word processing needs you have. LibreOffice's biggest advantage, of ...

It's not hard to tell the difference between the "charge" of a battery and criminal "charges." But for computers, distinguishing between the various meanings of a word is difficult. Our ability to ...

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. I’m writing these opening lines in Markdown, using a Mac app called Focused, ...

Many Windows-based computers come with a version of Microsoft Word, the widely used word processing software. More often then not, however, Apple computer's do not come with any version of Word.

So you’re still using Microsoft Word. Seems like an odd decision in the year 2017, but I didn’t come here to judge. I’m legitimately curious why some people continue to pump their money into the MS ...

Microsoft Word is used by many businesses as its primary word processing program and it can sometimes develop glitches. If the version of Word on your business computer is displaying grayed-out ...