What Is Microsoft Word?

You may be wondering: what sort of program is Microsoft Word? an honest definition is that it is a word processing system. That's an application you employ to “process”— format, manipulate, save, print, share — a text-based document.

Microsoft Word is arguably the foremost popular word processing system on earth. That’s because it’s a part of Microsoft’s Office Suite, which is installed in 1 billion devices within the world (according to groovyPost).

When Word 1.0 for Windows was released in 1989, it had been one of the primary word processors that offered a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface.

This combination of simple use and robust features makes it the go-to word processing system in both homes and offices today. It’s now also available for the Mac OS also as a web-based version through an Office 365 subscription.