Q: Do MacBook Air laptops come with Microsoft Word?

MacBook Air laptops do not come with Word. --- neither do most Windows based laptops unless you pay extra for Microsoft Office.

Also, iOS is the operating system on iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch.

OS X is the operating system on MacBooks (and other Mac computers).

I suspect that you are looking at the version of Safari that is installed on your Mac. The current version of Safari is 9.1.3

You can see the OS X version on your MacBook by going to Apple menu > About This Mac

Forgot to say that Apple's Pages and Numbers is free on Mac computers purchased after October 1, 2013.

Other alternatives are to purchase or subscribe to Microsoft Office For Mac 2016 https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Office-for-Mac/categoryID.6 9404500

or LibreOffice works very well and is similar to Microsoft Office: https://www.libreoffice.org/

You're probably better off without Microsoft products on your Mac. Really. There are so many better alternatives available today.

Microsoft's interest in the Mac platform peaked in 1987 with their original version of Excel. It's been downhill ever since.

Download a copy of Libre Office, its Word Processor is a pretty close clone of Word, and its free.

Word has never been a pre-load on Apple products. It can be purchased. As others have said there are alternatives to the Office suite but if you need near flawless exchange of documents with other Office users the best option is to purchase (or subscribe to) Office. A good "work-alike" is LibreOffice but documents don't always move back and forth between it and Office users flawlessly. Apple's iWork suite has its fans, I am no longer one of them and cannot recommend it if your needs are academic or professional.

dwb wrote:

 

... Apple's iWork suite has its fans, I am no longer one of them ...

Me neither!

Yes, LibreOffice

download it here: LibreO

CSound1's suggestion or GoogleApps would be among my first two choices. I've been using Nisus off And on for years and it takes some getting used to but is incredibly powerful.

Apple's Pages works for all my correspondence with MS Office users, as does OpenOffice.

I'm sure LibreOffice is perfectly OK also, I just haven't used it as much as OO.

OO and LO are virtually identical, (LO is a fork from OO) LO tends to have more active development, but unless you are on the fringes that will not impact you at all.

They are both good.

No immediate impact but Open Office recently reported that they may shut down: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/openoffice-after-years-of- neglect-could-shut-down/