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Darren Allan

'Not all heroes wear capes': Someone ported Word from 1990 to run in Windows 11, and it's perhaps the ultimate protest against Microsoft's bloat

COnfused businessman working with his laptop, at the office.
  • Someone has ported Word for Windows 1.1a to Windows 11
  • It's a fully native port
  • It's not easy to get it up and running on your system — should you wish to — but there are other alternatives to the feature-creep of Notepad

Somebody has taken a version of Word from 1990 and created a fully functional port for Windows 11 — and as you might imagine, this is a word processor with an incredibly light footprint.

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