Speaking of text editors, we immediately present coryphaeus as Microsoft Word, which for many years has occupied a pedestal among office applications. And although its first version appeared in 1986 for the IBM platform, it gained real popularity in the nineties already among Windows users. Like all Microsoft products at that time, Word had its own closed format of DOC documents. However, the monopoly on the doc format did not tire of many, and on the wave of development of the open source movement in the 2000s there appeared an alternative text processor with the open format odt. In 2006 it received the international standard ISO/IEC 26300.
And in spite of many negatives in its direction, it gained popularity among open source software fans. However, this format did not manage to enter the market of corporate clients. For too long, Microsoft has been the dominant product in office software. A huge number of documents were created in doc format and a huge number of use ...
