Microsoft Word Turns 25

At the urging of Bill Gates, Jeffery Harbers led a team at Microsoft to port Word to Apple's fledgling Macintosh in 1985. Among innovations such as the ability to display different font types, sizes, and weights (previously found in other software but new to Word), Word 1.0 for Mac featured a full mouse-driven GUI with drop-down menus.

These exciting new attributes fueled strong sales of the Mac version, which topped sales of MS-DOS Word for at least four years. To this day, sales of Microsoft Word for the Mac are still going strong.