Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died at 93 this week. She was most known as the designer of the first true word-processing computer. But she designed many other innovative computing systems and ...

For folks who want a powerful word processor but don't need a full suite, this is a great bargain. A Cheapskate-exclusive code gives you 50 percent off! Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and ...

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 ...

Computers are great at treating words as data: Word-processing programs let you rearrange and format text however you like, and search engines can quickly find a word anywhere on the Web. But what ...

For the last few decades, Microsoft Word has been the de facto standard for word processors across the working world. That’s finally starting to shift, and it looks like one of Google’s productivity ...

Search, maps, images, shopping and now office software — Google’s on the march and headed into the competitive territory dominated by Microsoft. The search giant this week purchased Silicon Valley ...

Holy crap, have we forgotten how much the computer has made our lives easier. We’re not talking about the non-stop stream of free porn — we’re talking about word processing. What’s word processing?