The old ways still have value. WordStar, an MS-DOS-based word-processing program first released in 1978, can live a little longer thanks to the archiving efforts of one of its biggest fans—Hugo and ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which ...

In brief: Before Microsoft Word became the de-facto standard for word processing on the PC, the market was rich with choice. WordStar is a program many great writers started their career on, and now ...

I was doing a hell of a lot of writing back then, and remember the old DOS-based word processors much like someone remembers having their wisdom teeth pulled. It was a painful process. But at least it ...