Once upon a time, and it wasn't that long ago, instead of word processors like today's favorites such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs or OpenOffice and its brother LibreOffice, we had to use ...

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 ...

Google has acquired Upstartle, the Silicon Valley-based maker of online word processor Writely. It gives Google yet another tool in its kit of applications to take on Microsoft — and brush aside its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike the iPhone and iPod touch, the iPad was designed with the needs of typists in mind. The screen size, the large virtual keyboard in landscape orientation, and the support for external keyboards ...

OpenXchange's new word processor is the first in a set of Linux-based productivity apps. Can it compete with Google Docs and Office 365? Web-hosted productivity suites like Google Docs and Microsoft ...

Windows has a few good word processors available, but when it comes to the majority of users, the free LibreOffice should serve any word processing needs you have. LibreOffice's biggest advantage, of ...

Microsoft Word can ably edit PDFs with lots of text, but it can’t replace a dedicated PDF editor for complex documents. Microsoft doesn’t include a PDF editor in its Office suite, but it has made it ...

Admit it: You don’t use half the tools in your word processing app—whether it’s Microsoft Word, Apple’s own Pages, or Google Docs—maybe even less than half. But without all those bells and whistles ...