On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
> On Thursday, November 21, 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > Has there ever been a lawsuit over Microsoft's trademark of the word
> > "Word" for its word processor that anyone knows of?
>
> I don't think they claim 'Word' as a trademark. Neither their web site, the
> Word XP splash screen, nor the Word XP About dialog have a 'TM' or '(R)'
> mark around 'Word', yet all three of these things do claim 'Microsoft' with
> a '(R)'.
Good, because at the last ham fest I went to I found the product box for
VisiOn's "Word" word processing program (circa 1982-1983). Microsoft's
first version of their "Word" shipped September 29, 1983 (according to
this document:
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/download/keyevents.doc).
Some may remember VisiOn, which was VisiCorp's text-based windowing
operating environment that came out before and was much better than
Windows 1.0 but was somehow screwed out of the market.
The package was in excellent shape, but I was highly saddened when I
popped it open and all that was inside were some blank floppies :(
Someone had turned it into a disk binder. The software and manuals were
gone :(
(I still bought it though.)
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