We list the best free word processors, to make it simple and easy to discover alternative software to Microsoft Word that have similar features. It used to be the case that you had to subscribe to a ...

Microsoft’s titan of a word processor is used almost everywhere by almost everyone, but what if you don’t want to spend seven bucks a month? Here are our favorite alternatives to Word. They’re all ...

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 ...

Dedicated word processors are not something we see much of anymore. They were in a weird space: computerized, but not really what you could call a computer, even in those days. More like a fancy ...

Word processors may be among the most essential pieces of software on the planet, but they’re also among the most mundane. The last one I can think of that felt like a landmark was Writely, the 2005 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc plans to acquire Virtual Ubiquity, makers of Buzzword, an innovative word processor, in a surprise move that competes with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc .

When it comes to word processing, most people—and most businesses—still think of Microsoft Word. Whether it's a résumé or an essay, it's most likely to come as a .docx file, the universally recognized ...