Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word (often called just MS Word or Word ) is a 1983 introduced word processing program from Microsoft, originally for Xenix platform. Word has been ported to IBM PC -DOS (1983 ), Apple Macintosh ( 1984), AT & T Unix ( 1985), Atari ST ( 1986), SCO UNIX, OS / 2, and Microsoft Windows (1989). Today it is part of the Office suite Microsoft Office. Only for Windows it will continue to be sold as a standalone application.
Word is by far the most widely used word processing program in the world.
- 3.1 File Format
- 5.1 Versions for MS- DOS and compatibles
- 5.2 versions for Apple Macintosh
- 5.3 versions for the OS / 2
- 5.4 Versions for Xenix and other Unix systems
- 5.5 Versions for Windows ( 16- bit)
- 5.6 Versions for Windows ( Intel x86, 32- bit)
- 5.7 Versions for Windows (Intel, 64- bit)
- 5.8 Versions for Windows RT ( ARM, 32- bit)
- 6.1 Notes and references
- 6.2 Literature
- 6.3 External links
History
Microsoft Word based on the concept of GUI word processor Bravo, who ran on the Xerox Alto. The author of Bravo, Charles Simonyi joined PARC in 1981 by Microsoft and became the leading developer of multi - Tool Word. 1983 Multi-Tool Word for Xenix was announced and MS -DOS. Microsoft was promoting the product through demonstration disks that have been distributed in the U.S. computer magazine PC World. Word was with the constant advancement to a widespread software after it initially under the unusual operation compared to WordPerfect was unpopular among MS -DOS. In the first version of Word for the operation has been designed with a mouse and was in conjunction with a graphics card, the graphics output allowed (such as CGA or Hercules ), on IBM - compatible devices, markups such as bold or italic, but not the font or font sizes represent directly. In 1985 the port to the Macintosh. Unlike the DOS version of the Macintosh version supported similar to Apple 's own word processing MacWrite true WYSIWYG. The version 1.05 has been ported in collaboration with Atari for the Atari ST. The sold under the name Microsoft Write version has not been updated. While the DOS version had several competitors such as WordStar, WordPerfect, or IBM PC text, Word for Macintosh was dominant at the latest with the version 5.1 in 1992. The Macintosh version was so expensive even for years as the DOS version. The first Windows version was published in 1989, the second in 1991. Using Word 5.5 for MS- DOS Microsoft resembled to the operation of the DOS version of the Windows version, which at that time had the version 2.0. The DOS version now had also via pull-down menus and a toolbar, and could be edited through dialogues. Range of functions on the other hand was like Word 5.5 approximately the version 5.0, which had its own, even mouse -based user concept. 1993 Word 6 for DOS, Windows and Macintosh were released. For MS -DOS, it was the final version. The DOS versions were sold until 1995. There were also versions for OS / 2 and SCO Unix.
Word for DOS
Word for DOS was one of the first popular word processor for the IBM PC. In conjunction with a graphics card Word was on IBM-compatible devices such as bold or italic text Awards, but not the font or font sizes, represent directly. Competitors such as WordStar, WordPerfect, or IBM PC text could, however, represent only plain text. Formatting appeared there either as colored text, or markups were used.
Word for Windows
The first Windows version was released in 1989. Unlike Word for DOS -based Winword how the program was referred to colloquially in the 1990s, to WYSIWYG. Earlier Windows computers reached their performance limits, therefore, supported Word for Windows also has a design view with a default font and hidden objects.
On March 25, 2014 Microsoft donated the source code for Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a the Computer History Museum. From there, the source code under a specific Microsoft license for scientific purposes is freely downloadable.
File Format
The hot extensions used for Microsoft Word up to version 2003 and 2004. Doc for documents and. Dot for document templates. It is worth noting the incompatibility of particular versions up to and including 7 (Microsoft Office 95 ) and the versions from 8 (Microsoft Office 97 ). It is based on Microsoft's backup functionality fundamentally changed what the introduction of a new file format was equivalent to a change of known file name extension but refrained.
Word can work with different file formats, but some important foreign formats were not supported until Service Pack 2 for Word 2007 and Word 2010 for Windows, Word for Mac OS X to date. Meanwhile, the specification of the "old" copies of Microsoft were released. As the exchange of information by various independent information systems is becoming increasingly more important and had threatened various governments because of the proprietary format, no longer want to use longer the Microsoft Office package, a new interoperable document format is end of January 2005 presented and approved: WordprocessingML. Newer versions of Microsoft Word support the XML-based format WordprocessingML, and documents in this format can be especially for foreign programs easier to read, process and create. These documents were then but a lot bigger, because XML produces a large overhead.
Since the version of Windows 2007 and the Macintosh version 2008 documents are stored by default in Office Open XML format. However, the old format is still supported for compatibility reasons. Documents in the new format carry the file extension. Docx and. Docm (documents with macros). Since this format is based on XML, they can be especially for third-party programs easier to read, process and create. Templates have the suffix. Dotx or. Dotm on. Since it is a work based on ZIP compressed file format, these files are relatively compact. After installing a free " Compatibility Pack " for Microsoft Office Word for Windows version 2000 ( officially, ., But the Comp Pack v4 6 January 2010 attack also works with Word 97) can be opened with older versions of Word, these new file types will be processed and stored. For Mac OS, Microsoft offers for Word 2004 to a separately downloaded converter that OpenXML documents converted to. RTF files.
The Internet Media Type for documents in the old format is application / msword. For documents in Office Open XML it is application / vnd.openxmlformats - officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.
Safety aspects
File Format
Insights into the latest changes to the text are in digital publishing and data exchange of documents in Microsoft Word format, if you edit the functions Quick save, version tracking and change tracking was enabled, possible. Furthermore, it may sometimes be possible to determine the original authors and the Dateiablageort in the local computer. This information, however, can easily be removed from the document.
Microsoft Word offers to give a document, read and / or write protection. Unlocks is such a protected file on a user- inputted password. In older versions of Word (2003 and earlier), this protection could be bypassed by an attacker relatively easily without knowing the password. Newer versions of Word use a much better read protection. The write protection can still be circumvented relatively easily.
Automation
The automation and expansion of Microsoft Word can be accomplished by using the Visual Studio Tools for Office by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA ) or under Windows. Before Word 97 automation could be accomplished through the use of its own macro language, Word Basic.
Until the 2004 version of Word for Macintosh supported VBA. In Version 2008 automation with AppleScript only was possible. Word 2011 was again delivered with VBA.
Word 2013 for Windows RT does not support VBA and allows therefore there is no automation.
Versions
Versions for MS- DOS and compatibles
- November 1983: Word 1
- 1985: Word 2
- 1986: Word 3
- 1987: Word 4
- 1989: Word 5
- 1990: Word 5.5; Offered Y2K -compliant version in the context of a patch 1999 free
- 1993: Word 6
Versions for Apple Macintosh
- January 1985: 1 Word for Macintosh
- 1987: Word 3
- 1989: Word 4
- 1991: Word 5
- 1993: Word 6.0 Macintosh Edition
- 1998: Word 98 Macintosh Edition
- 2000: Word: mac 2001; the latest version that is compatible with Mac OS 9
- 2001: Word: mac v.X; presupposes the first version, the Mac OS X
- 2004: Word: mac 2004; Version for PPC computers running, with the help of Rosetta on Intel Macs
- 2008: Word: mac 2008; first version for Intel machine (native)
- 2010: Word: mac 2011
Versions of OS / 2
Versions of Xenix and other Unix systems
Versions for Windows ( 16- bit)
- November 1989: Word for Windows. It appeared at about the same time as Windows 2.11 and is next to Excel and PageMaker one of the first programs for these graphical user interface
- 1991: Word 2.0 for Windows; with a scripting language called Word Basic, with which operations were automated.
- 1993: Word 6.0 for Windows (Word 3, 4 and 5 were skipped in order to unify the version number with the Mac and DOS versions, as well as with the version numbers of WordPerfect, which was at that time the main competitor of MS Word); against the loss of the currently edited document by software failure or crash of the computer system a backup feature was installed from Word 6.
Versions for Windows ( Intel x86, 32- bit)
- September 1994: Word 6 for Windows NT; corresponds to that of the surface Word for Windows 6 (16 -bit), however, was designed for Windows NT 3.5, and therefore, had a 32-bit code. Part of Office 4.2 released for Windows NT, before the appearance of Windows 95.
- 1995: Word 95 (version 7 ); and a part of Office 95
- 1997: Word 97 (version 8 ); and a part of Office 97
- Summer 1999: Word 2000 (version 9 ); and a part of Office 2000.
- Autumn 2001: Word XP, and Word 2002 ( version 10 ); and a part of Office XP)
- October 21, 2003: Word 2003 ( version 11); and a part of Office 2003. The version 11.6113.5703 thereby identifies the RTM version, after the installation of Service Pack 1 has Word 2003 version 11.6359.6360.
- 30 November 2006 ( corporate clients ) and 29 January 2007 ( end-user): Word 2007 ( version 12), is part of Microsoft Office 2007, which was launched simultaneously with Windows Vista on the market.
- May 15th 2010: Word 2010 ( version 14); Part of Office 2010.
- January 29, 2013: Word 2013 ( version 15); Part of Office 2013.
As of version 7.0, the version numbers are the same with the other Office products such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, etc. are performed.
Versions for Windows ( Intel 64-bit)
Versions for Windows RT ( ARM 32-bit )
- January 29, 2013: Word 2013 ( version 15); Part of Office 2013 RT.