Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. But I started using my favorite word processor of all time just six weeks ago. I acknowledge that I may be a tad biased: I vibe-coded it ...

Microsoft Word used to be enough—now I split my writing across these 5 apps, and they are amazing at doing what the old apps ...

It took some convincing, but at the start of this year, I ended a years-long relationship with Microsoft 365. I'd like to say ...

The world once ran on hardcopy, and when the digital age started to bring new tools and ways of doing things, documents were ripe for change. Today, word processors and digital documents are so ...

The word processor is a staple of the computer world. In response to writers needing to get work done, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw hundreds of word processors vying for market space. Microsoft ...

The old ways still have value. WordStar, an MS-DOS-based word-processing program first released in 1978, can live a little longer thanks to the archiving efforts of one of its biggest fans—Hugo and ...