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 ...

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It’s hard to believe, but one of the most important changes in the way people write in the last 50 years has been largely overlooked by historians of literature. The word processor—that is, any ...

Computers are great at treating words as data: Word-processing programs let you rearrange and format text however you like, and search engines can quickly find a word anywhere on the Web. But what ...

Search, maps, images, shopping and now office software — Google’s on the march and headed into the competitive territory dominated by Microsoft. The search giant this week purchased Silicon Valley ...

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.