A developer got Word 1.1a from 1990 to run on Windows 11 - try it yourself

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.

Developer ports Word for Windows 1.1a to modern x64 systems using original source code

Developer Justin Marshall recently ported Word for Windows 1.1a to modern Windows systems. The open-source conversion draws ...

Developer ported Word for Windows 1.1a from 1990 to run natively on Windows 110 0

Are you overwhelmed by all the AI features in Microsoft Word? Why not go back all the way to 1990 and run this Microsoft Word ...
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X64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives

The Computer History Museum made the Word 1.1a source code publicly available in 2014, now it has been ported to 64-bit ...