It works on most major OS platforms and supports many languages; it’s able to read and write most documents in Microsoft Word’s .doc format, as well as twenty others; its authors claim it can do most ...

Google has acquired Upstartle, the Silicon Valley-based maker of online word processor Writely. It gives Google yet another tool in its kit of applications to take on Microsoft — and brush aside its ...

Based on what I saw in the beta version (released today) of Corel's new Wordperfect Lightning (I have a video as well as a screen gallery), the freely downloadable lightweight collaborative word ...

It’s a $19 “piece of junk,” but a portable word processor could keep you focused on your writing and nothing else. Design for Hackers author David Kadavy explains several of the benefits of using a ...

A Web-based word processor can now convert documents to Adobe Systems' PDF standard, adding to other new features, such as OpenDocument and Rich Text Format support. The Writely word processor was ...

Are you ready to give jazz hands a whole new meaning? Now you can create art whenever you type with the JazzKeys word processor. This musical word processor by Plan8, which we first saw on Boing Boing ...

The Vault is Slate’s new history blog. Like us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter @slatevault; find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. On this sheet of paper, the ...