Microsoft Word is a word processing software that gives novelists, narrators, and storytellers a chance to spread their words far across the cosmos. ... Writers just open the software, then get right into writing. Once creating a document, users can edit, modify, and perfect it with a variety of different tools. Microsoft Word or MS Word is a popular word-processing program used mainly for creating documents, such as brochures, letters, learning activities, quizzes, tests, and students' homework assignments. It was first released in 1983 and is one of Microsoft Office suite's applications.