{
  "id": 534804,
  "title": "Someone ported Microsoft Word from 1990 onto x64 systems, and you can download it right now",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/someone-ported-microsoft-word-from-1990-onto-x64-systems-and-you-can",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T05:15:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "XDA Developers",
    "slug": "xda-developers",
    "url": "https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-ported-microsoft-word-from-1990-onto-x64-systems-and-you-can-download-it-right-now/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Someone has ported Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1 to modern x64 systems, allowing users to download and run the 30-year-old software. The port was created by developer Justin Marshall, who used the original source code that Microsoft shared with the community in 2014.\n\nThe port brings the original Word for Windows experience to modern Windows systems, with the original application running with its original resources and UI elements intact. No emulation, virtualization, or reimplementation was involved in the process.\n\nMarshall had to adapt specific behaviors tied to the Win16 API to modern Win32 APIs and rebuild dialogs, cursors, and bitmap elements with native host tools. The port is now available for download, offering a nostalgic look back at the early days of Microsoft Word.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}