As Microsoft Word turns 40, we look at the role the software has played in four decades of language and communication evolution

Dear Victoria, Microsoft Word played the following roles in the last 4 decades: taking normal people at the edge of insanity, showing that even if you are close to make a good product (Word 97), there always must be an idiot who breaks something (ribbon).

But don't care about losers like me. Keep up the good work, because Microsoft pays well for articles like yours.