Since then, Windows versions include Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016, and most recently, Word for Office 365. With the release of Word 2003, the numbering was again year-based. Then it was renamed to Word 95 and Word 97, Word 2000 and Word for Office XP (to follow Windows commercial names). Word for Windows 1.0 was followed by Word 2.0 in 1991 and Word 6.0 in 1993. When Windows 3.0 was released in 1990, Word became a huge commercial success. The first Windows version was released in 1989, with a slightly improved interface. The first Word version, Word 1.0, was released in October 1983 for Xenix and MS-DOS it was followed by four very similar versions that were not very successful. Both programmers worked on Xerox Bravo, the first WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) word processor. The first version of Microsoft Word was developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie, former Xerox programmers hired by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1981. Installation floppy of Microsoft Word for UNIX Systems, version 5.0 (distributed by SCO, 1990).

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