Prior to Visual C++ (the first version of which shipped for Windows 3.x), Microsoft sold a “Microsoft C/C++” as well as Microsoft QuickC:

- https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-c-c/5x

- https://winworldpc.com/product/quick-c/10-for-windows

And their names are so frustrating. We don't run 16 bit systems any more. Word is a word that means something and I don't care what a word was on the 8086. The only honest things the WORD macro could expand to are size_t and ssize_t. 64bit is not a quad word, it's just a word.