Many people may not know/remember how common it was for people to use Word to spell/grammar check everything, thanks to Microsoft's strategic decision to only i

Many people may not know/remember how common it was for people to use Word to spell/grammar check everything, thanks to Microsoft's strategic decision to only include the functionality in Office. Those little squiggles indicating spelling errors in any (especially browser) text fields didn't arrive on the scene until 2005 or so. As a result, it wasn't unusual to draft an email message in Word and then copy/paste it into your browser. Microsoft also made it an option to use Word to compose Outlook (i.e. corporate email) messages. Microsoft was pretty stingy about features like spell check even in their own OS because they obviously wanted everyone to also buy Office. Word was to text as IE was to browsing in Microsoft's worldview.