and began work on “Multi-Tool Word.” With Brodie doing most of the programming, they developed version 1.0 (seen here) in Microsoft’s Xenix (a UNIX-like operating system, now defunct).

When your system crashes, the Word document that you are working on may be lost, corrupted, or partially saved, depending on the circumstances of the crash and the settings of the Word program.

The program came to life on Oct. 25, 1983, dubbed “Multi-Tool Word” on Xeni systems and later on MS-DOS and Macintosh. Hell, Microsoft even managed to get Word on the Atari-ST. This was back ...

Software usually comes in the form of commercial programs (like Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop), games, a computer operating system, or even malware like viruses and ransomware. Any program or ...