An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust(github.com)
51 points by espeed | 8 comments
GitHub repository for Wordcraft, an open-source clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word written in pure Rust.
#microsoft-word on Hacker News
6 stories tagged microsoft-word, newest first.
Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP(vespper.com)
32 points by topaztee | 8 comments
Vespper blog post launching its DOCX MCP, a fine-tuned model that lets AI agents edit Word documents via an HTML projection, claiming 3× speed and 2× lower cost.
Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word(enklypesalt.com)
352 points by Canopy9560 | 271 comments
Blog post, part 3 of a series, describing how prompt-injection payloads in documents can self-propagate as AI worms through Microsoft Copilot for Word.
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words(devblogs.microsoft.com)
537 points by saikatsg | 94 comments
Raymond Chen's Old New Thing post remembering Tony Krueger, longtime Microsoft Word developer credited with the red and green squiggle underlines.
Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?(blog.jgc.org)
447 points by jgrahamc | 188 comments
Blog post by John Graham-Cumming testing which modern software can open Tim Berners-Lee's original 1990 WWW proposal saved as a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file.
"LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"(eldritch.cafe)
405 points by sohkamyung | 161 comments
A Mastodon post by an author on eldritch.cafe noting that LibreOffice opens old Microsoft Word files better than Word itself does.