Word

Word Prossessing

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  • IBM introduces the first word processor

  • Electric Pencil offered for sale

    Electric Pencil offered for sale in December by Michael Shrayer Software. This is the first word processing package for a microcomputer.

  • WordMaster offered for $150 at PC Expo in New York

  • Satellite Software International founded to market word processing software for the Data General minicomputer

  • WordStar for the Epson released

  • WordPerfect Corporation introduces WordPerfect 1.0

  • WordPerfect 2.20 introduced for the IBM PC

  • WordStar for PC-DOS released

  • Microsoft introduces MS Word for DOS

  • WordPerfect 3.0 released

  • NewWord 2 released

  • WordPerfect 4.0 released

  • Microsoft Word 1 for Macintosh; Word 2.0 for DOS released

  • WordStar 2000 released for MS-DOS and AT&T Unix computers

  • WordPerfect 4.1 released

  • WordPerfect takes off with introduction of 4.2; surpasses WordStar

  • Microsoft Word 3 for Macintosh released

    there was no version 2

  • Microsoft Word 3 (DOS) released

  • WordPerfect 4.2 released

  • WordPerfect is number 1 word processing package according to Liebowitz and Margolis, Winners, Losers & Microsoft

  • WordPerfect 4.1 for DEC/VAX, Amiga and Atari ST released

    WordPerfect 4.1 for DEC/VAX, Amiga ($395) and Atari ST ($295) released

  • WordStar 4.0 for CP/M and WordStar 4.0 for DOS released

  • WordStar 5.0 for DOS released

  • WordPerfect 4.2 for VAX, Data General, AT&T Unix, and NCR Unix released

  • WordPerfect 1.0 for Macintosh released

  • WordPerfect Office for DEC VAX and WordPerfect Office for DOS LANs released

  • WordPerfect Library 1.0 for Commodore Amiga introduced

  • WordPerfect 5.0 for DOS released

  • WordPerfect 4.2 for SCO Xenix and Microport Unix introduced

  • WordPerfect 4.2 for DEC Ultrix, Pyramid Tech Unix, Sun 3 introduced

  • Microsoft introduces MS Word for Windows

  • Microsoft Word 4 for Macintosh released

  • Microsoft Word 5.0 (DOS) released

  • WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS released

  • Microsoft Office for Macintosh (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) introduced

  • Microsoft Office for Windows (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) introduced

  • WordStar 6.0 for DOS released

  • WordPerfect 4.2 for IBM System/370 introduced

  • Word for Macintosh is #1 in sales (Macintosh wps)

  • Microsoft Word 2 for Windows released

  • WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows introduced

  • WordStar for Windows 1.0 introduced

  • Microsoft Word 5 for Macintosh released

  • Microsoft Word 5.5 (DOS) released

  • Microsoft Office 3 (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) released

  • Word for Windows is best-selling word processing package (eclipsing WordPerfect DOS)

  • WordStar 1.1 for Windows released

  • WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows released

  • Word for Windows 6 (renumbered to parallel DOS versions) released

  • Word 6.0 for DOS released

  • Word 6 for Macintosh released

  • WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS released

  • WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows released

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