Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Oct 2005 19:10 UTC
"Today, I want to take you on a journey. A journey that starts back into the cold recesses of the mid-1980s, back into the days of EGA and serial port mice and the MS-DOS Executive. Microsoft Word 1.0 for Windows shipped in 1989 after a long development cycle and was designed to run on Windows 386. There's not much more to the program than what you see here, but it gives you an idea of how far Word's come."
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In my personal opinion, nothing drastic has changed in newer versions since Word 2.0. I use Word 2000 (in Office 2000) on Windows 2000 and it is stable, dependable, and quick. The same Word 2000 on Windows 98, ME, and XP is rather quirky.
I still have my copy of Word 2.0 and use it. Other than the spell check and correct as you type, there are no new features in Word that I "must have" since Word 2.0. Later versions are designed to work with different versions of the OS, possibly. Microsoft throws in new and different "bells and whistles".
My main gripe (and the reason I keep Word 2.0) is the changing templates. With 2.0, Microsoft had some good templates; every one I used went aweay with the next version and I had to convert. Almost every template I used in Word 6.0 went away; another conversion job.
It is, I admit, a minor point, but it has griped me for over 20 years.
By the way, I also use OpenOffice on a daily basis. Good software, if a bit on the slow side. I use what is necessary to interact with customers.
Later,
Mike