Longing for a plain, old-fashioned version of Microsoft Word without all the bells, whistles, and AI slop? One developer managed to coax Word 1.1a to run on today's Windows.

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft Word began as a word processor for MS-DOS back in the 1980s, a time when most personal computer software was all about databases, spreadsheets, ...

Think Windows 11's Notepad is too bloated these days? Someone got an ancient version of Word running natively in Windows 11.

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