The first ever version of Microsoft Word - Word 1.0 - was launched in October 1983 and developed by former Xerox programmers, Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie.
The two were hired by Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, in 1981.
At this time, Word was called Multi-Tool Word.
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