VERSIONS OF MICROSOFT WORD

The versions of word are,

Versions for MS-DOS
1983 November — Word 1
1985 — Word 2
1986 — Word 3
1987 — Word 4 aka Microsoft Word 4.0 for the PC
1989 — Word 5
1991 — Word 5.1
1991 — Word 5.5
1993 — Word 6.0


Versions for the Macintosh (Mac OS and Mac OS X)
1985 January — Word 1 for the Macintosh
1987 — Word 3
1989 — Word 4
1991 — Word 5
1993 — Word 6
1998 — Word 98
2000 — Word 2001, the last version compatible with Mac OS 9
2001 — Word v.X, the first version for Mac OS X only
2004 — Word 2004, part of Office 2004 for Mac
2008 — Word 2008, part of Office 2008 for Mac


Versions for Microsoft Windows
1989 November — Word for Windows 1.0 for Windows 2.x, code-named Opus
1990 March — Word for Windows 1.1 for Windows 3.0, code-named Bill the Cat
1990 June — Word for Windows 1.1a for Windows 3.1
1991 — Word for Windows 2.0, code-named Spaceman Spiff
1993 — Word for Windows 6.0, code-named T3 (renumbered 6 to bring
Windows version numbering in line with that of DOS version,
Macintosh version and also WordPerfect, the main competing
word processor at the time; also a 32-bit version for Windows NT only)
1995 — Word 95 (version 7.0) - included in Office 95
1997 — Word 97 (version 8.0) included in Office 97
1998 — Word 98 (version 8.5) only included in Office 97 Powered By
Word 98—only released in Japan and Korea
1999 — Word 2000 (version 9.0) included in Office 2000
2001 — Word 2002 (version 10) included in Office XP
2003 — Word 2003 (officially "Microsoft Office Word 2003") - (ver. 11)
included in Office 2003
2006 — Word 2007 (officially "Microsoft Office Word 2007") - (ver. 12)
included in Office 2007; released to businesses on November 30th 2006,
released worldwide to consumers on January 30th 2007


Versions for SCO UNIX
Microsoft Word for UNIX Systems Release 5.1


Versions for OS/2
1992 — Microsoft Word for OS/2 version 1.1B