Atok 2013
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Microsoft released the first Japanese version of Microsoft Word for Windows in 1991. ATOK 7 was bundled with Ichitaro 4, and was available as a standalone product in 1992. The stable version was 4.3 released in December 1989. Three minor versions were released because it was buggy.
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It had a proprietary operating environment called Just Window ( ジャストウィンドウ), like Lotus Symphony. Ichitaro Ver.4 was released in April 1989. Contrary to the Japanese personal computer market expanding into beginners, Matsu oriented for power users, so Ichitaro overtook it. Total shipments of Ichitaro reached one million in November 1991. It has shipped more than 300,000 copies until 1991. Ichitaro Ver.3 was the first version ported for other Japanese DOS platforms. Ichitaro Ver.2 has shipped 80,000 copies. The first version of Ichitaro has shipped 29,000 copies. Also, Matsu was priced at 128,000 yen before Ichitaro came out. Ichitaro had plenty of typesettings options, but Matsu did not. It gained speed from being written in assembly language and natively ran on PC-9801, but Matsu's Japanese input method couldn't be used for other applications. The biggest competitor, Matsu ( 松), was released in 1983 by Kanri Kougaku Kenkyujo ( 管理工学研究所). It allowed users to use other MS-DOS applications with Japanese language support. Ichitaro's system disk contained ATOK 4 and a runtime version of MS-DOS 2.11. The same year, Ichitaro was released as its definite successor. jX-WORD Taro was priced at 58,000 yen, which was the middle price among Japanese word processor software, and sold 9,700 copies. The jX-WORD for the IBM JX was released and in 1985, jX-WORD Taro was released for PC-9801. JS-WORD featured mouse support and a graphical icon-based interface, but it resulted in poor performance. Both were published by ASCII under their name. It was followed by JS-WORD 2.0 ported for PC-9801.
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#ATOK 2013 SOFTWARE#
When they contacted to ASCII Microsoft about a run-time license fee of the BASIC compiler used for their farm management software, ASCII had known JustSystem's Japanese software, so they asked JustSystems to develop a Japanese word processor software for PC-100. They demonstrated it at trade fairs, and received a positive response. After the release of PC-8801, they developed an invoicing software for it, which printed out estimations and invoices in Japanese. He founded the company as a dealer of business computers, and they started selling Japanese language software. Toshiba released JW-10 in February 1979, the first word processor for the Japanese language, but it sold less than their business computers. Kazunori worked at a subsidiary company of Toshiba, and he was interested in Japanese-language computing. JustSystems was founded in July 1979 by Hatsuko ( 初子) and Kazunori Ukigawa, and was incorporated in June 1981.
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Sanyo Electric already had a trademark right of the name, so JustSystems added a prefix " Ichi ( 一)" as they hoped the software won the best. Taro is also a common Japanese given name used for the eldest son. He died of sickness when Kazunori worked at the company. When he worked part-time as a tutor, one of his learners' names was Taro. "Taro ( 太郎)" was named by Kazunori Ukigawa ( 浮川 和宣), a founder of JustSystems.