Adobe has acquired Virtual Ubiquity‘s BuzzWord, a Web-based Flash word processor (news story). There are a lot of online productivity suites and apps right now–see Google, Zoho, ThinkFree, for example ...

Someone cloned Microsoft Word, so I had to try it on Linux and Mac. It’s a 1:1 alternative - and open source.

Faster is almost always better, at least when it comes to computers. So what’s the fastest way to open a word processor? You can create a keyboard shortcut to open Notepad, WordPad, Word, or any other ...

Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Before we go any further, an invitation: On Thursday, April 23, at 1 p.m. ET, my colleague Jared Newman and I will be cohosting “The AI ...

Google Docs and Microsoft Word are quite similar. However, their differences extend beyond whether they’re usually used online or offline. Best for online collaboration: Google Docs Best for precise ...

In many professional environments, writing and editing are often considered among the more time-intensive and repetitive parts of daily work. From legal documents to internal reports, the process ...

In brief: Before Microsoft Word became the de-facto standard for word processing on the PC, the market was rich with choice. WordStar is a program many great writers started their career on, and now ...

Writing tools are intensely personal choices -- for some people. Most people make do with the corporate standard, Microsoft Word, and many are even happy with it. But some of us have to be different, ...

Do people prefer stories written on a word processor?Stories written by AI are sometimes preferred over those written by ...

Microsoft has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which first debuted almost three decades ago as a ...

I saw a discussion about whether writers used to write by hand before word processors appeared, and I wrote a reply, but ...