However, WordPerfect saw its downfall on Windows OS when Microsoft introduced Microsoft Word as its product for documents file format and chose DOC extension for their proprietary format. In 1980s, WordPerfect remained the choice of usage on most of the computers due to its easy availability, conformance with most computer machines and Operating systems. WordPerfect, a product of Corel, used DOC as the extension of their proprietary format. The updated version of DOC is DOCX which is based on Office OpenXML whose specifications are openly available. The format was popular for all sorts of documentation due to the variety of options it offers to users for writing manuals, proposals, specifications, resumes, articles or any similar documents. It can contain several different types of data such as images, formatted as well as plain text, graphs, charts, embedded objects, links, pages, page formatting, print settings and a lot others. The extension was initially used for plain text documentation on several different operating systems. doc extension represent documents generated by Microsoft Word or other word processing documents in binary file format.
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