From the beginning, the iPhone could read Microsoft Word documents, but now you’ll be able to do basic word processing on it with gOffice for iPhone. Developer Kevin Warnock created this mini ...

OpenXchange's new word processor is the first in a set of Linux-based productivity apps. Can it compete with Google Docs and Office 365? Web-hosted productivity suites like Google Docs and Microsoft ...

ThinkFree Office 3.0 is a Java-based application that provides much of the power of Microsoft Office at a much lower price. The program is aimed at users looking for an inexpensive, basic word ...

Word processors may be among the most essential pieces of software on the planet, but they’re also among the most mundane. The last one I can think of that felt like a landmark was Writely, the 2005 ...

I use evernote as my basic word processor on my iPhone (and my iPad). The reason is that it cloud syncs. If you get a paid account it also tracks versions. Once writing is done I switch to my desktop ...

Adobe Systems' beta release of the free Acrobat.com suite Monday should appeal to small-business users. In our early tests, the stand-outs are tools for Web conferencing and directly sharing text and ...

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post will ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc plans to acquire Virtual Ubiquity, makers of Buzzword, an innovative word processor, in a surprise move that competes with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc .