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For 27 years, only one person could use Word at a time,” said Bailor, a Microsoft Word program manager. “It took a lot of really smart people a really long time to develop and deliver something different.

Microsoft Word 2010 Coauthoring Enables Multiple People to Work on a Document at the Same Time: Jonathan Bailor, a Microsoft Word program manager, worked with a team of problem-solvers at the company to bring an end to a 27-year-old issue: how to efficiently collaborate on documents. The resulting tool, coauthoring, will be available in Office 2010.