> While it would be an overstatement to say Word alone made English the dominant language, as a US firm, Microsoft's mother-tongue is American-English. When this is coupled with Word’s ubiquity, it at least reinforces this dominance.

> "Word primarily operates in English," says Noël Wolf, a linguistic expert at the language learning platform Babbel. "As businesses become increasingly global, the widespread use of Word in professional and technical fields has led to the borrowing of English terms and structures, which contribute to the trend of linguistic homogenisation."

Uh, what? Microsoft Word is available in dozens of languages, with spell checking available. I was able to find a copy of Word 3.0 (1986) in German on a certain well-known old-software site. If you tell modern Word your text is in German, it will underline non-English words, and if you tell it your text is in British English, it will probably complain about your mention of your "favorite color".