Mike Koss, Jabe Blumenthal, Doug Klunder and Jon DeVaan with Excel 1.0. Microsoft has recently been making lots of apps for iOS and Android, despite the fact that those platforms are rivals to its ...

Microsoft has set October 15, 2020 as the date it will enforce the deprecation of the legacy Transport Layer Security (TLS) web protocols TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Office 365. While Microsoft said its ...

Though much more limited than Microsoft Word, WordPad was also more versatile than Notepad, capable of saving and reading .rtf, .docx, .odt, and .txt files (though its support for Word documents ...

Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed. 1985 is calling, and it has some lessons for Windows 8. by Sean Hollister. Updated Nov 20, 2012, 10:08 PM UTC ...

If you’re reading this, you probably have Microsoft Word installed on your computer. It’s hard to function without it. Eventually, someone, somewhere, will send you a dreaded .doc (or .docx).

On November 20, 1985, Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0, a then new operating system. Development took two years after the Windows announcement in 1983, leading skeptics to call it “vaporware.”See EDN‘s ...

Microsoft reminded users that insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols will be disabled soon in future Windows releases.

Microsoft Word For MS-DOS – Pre Windows Era. The history of MS Office starts officially from November 19, 1990, when Office for Windows (also called MS Office 1.0) came out for use with Windows 2.0.

First announced in 1983, Microsoft Windows 1.0 wouldn’t make it to the consumer market for another two years — making it one of the first pieces of software to be dismissed as “vaporware ...