Microsoft Office

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Microsoft Office is an office suite of desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft on August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, OLE data integration and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand. Office is reported to now be used by over a billion people worldwide.[3]

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office 2013 applications, from top left to bottom right: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote Developer(s) Initial release Stable release Microsoft November 19, 1990 Microsoft Office 2013 15.0.4535.1004 (September 16, 2013) [] (//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
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Development status Active

C++[1] The current versions are Office Written in 2013 for Windows, released on Operating system Microsoft Windows October 11, 2012;[4] and Office 35 languages [2] 2011 for OS X, released October Available in Office suite Type 26, 2010.[5] On 24 October 2012, the RTM final code of Trialware (Retail, volume licensing, SaaS) License Office 2013 Professional Plus was office.microsoft.com/en-us (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us) Website released to TechNet and MSDN subscribers for download.[6] On Microsoft Office for Mac 15 November 2012, the 60-day trial version of Office 2013 [7] Professional Plus was released for download.

A version of Office called Microsoft Office Mobile is available for Android phones, iPhone and Windows Phone.[8]

Contents
1 Components 1.1 Word 1.2 Excel 1.3 Outlook/Entourage 1.4 OneNote 1.5 PowerPoint 1.6 Other desktop applications

The Office for Mac suite Developer(s) Microsoft

1.7 Server applications 1.8 Web services 2 Common features 3 File formats and metadata 4 Extensibility 5 Supported operating systems 6 Licensing 7 Support 8 Versions available 9 Discontinued applications and features 9.1 Discontinued server applications 9.2 Discontinued web services 10 Version history 10.1 Windows versions 10.2 Mac OS versions 11 Password protection 12 References 13 External links

Initial release Stable release

August 1, 1989 2011 (14.3.0 SP3) / January 29, 2013

Operating system OS X Type License Office suite Proprietary commercial software (Retail, volume licensing, SaaS) Website microsoft.com/mac (http://microsoft.com/mac)

Components
Word
Main article: Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processor and was previously considered the main program in Office. Its proprietary DOC format is considered a de facto standard, although Word 2007 can also use a new XML-based, Microsoft Officeoptimized format called .DOCX, which has been standardized by Ecma International as Office Open XML, and its SP2 update supports PDF and a limited ODF.[9] Word is also available in some editions of Microsoft Works. It is available for the Windows and OS X platforms. The first version of Word, released in the autumn of 1983, was for the MS-DOS operating system and had the distinction of introducing the mouse to a broad population. Word 1.0 could be purchased with a bundled mouse, though none was required. Following the precedents of LisaWrite and MacWrite, Word for Macintosh attempted to add closer WYSIWYG features into its package. Word for Mac was released in 1985. Word for Mac was the first graphical version of Microsoft Word.

Excel
Main article: Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that originally competed with the dominant Lotus 1-2-3, but eventually outsold it. It is available for the Windows and OS X platforms. Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Mac OS in 1985, and the first Windows version (numbered 2.05 to line up with the Mac and bundled with a standalone Windows run-time environment) in November 1987.

Outlook/Entourage
Main articles: Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Outlook (not to be confused with Outlook Express) is a personal information manager and e-mail communication software. The replacement for Windows Messaging, Microsoft Mail, and Schedule+ starting in Office 97, it includes an email client, calendar, task manager and address book.

On the Mac OS, Microsoft offered several versions of Outlook in the late 1990s, but only for use with Microsoft Exchange Server. In Office 2001, it introduced an alternative application with a slightly different feature set called Microsoft Entourage. It reintroduced Outlook in Office 2011, replacing Entourage.[10]

OneNote
Main article: Microsoft OneNote Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking and free-form information gathering program, used with both tablet and conventional PCs. It gathers users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. Initially introduced as an optional Windows product that was not included in any of Microsoft Office 2003 editions, OneNote became a core component of Microsoft Office. With the release of Microsoft Office 2013, OneNote was included in all Microsoft Office offerings. OneNote is available as a freeware web application on SkyDrive or Office Web Apps, as a Windows desktop application, as a mobile app for Windows Phone, iOS, Android, and Symbians, and as a Metro-style app for Windows 8 or later.

PowerPoint
Main article: Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program for Windows and OS X. It is used to create slideshows, composed of text, graphics, and other objects, which can be displayed on-screen and shown by the presenter or printed out on transparencies or slides.

Other desktop applications

Other desktop applications included in Microsoft Office suite include: Microsoft Access: database manager for Windows Microsoft InfoPath: Windows application for designing and distributing rich XML-based forms Microsoft Publisher: desktop publishing app mostly used for designing brochures, labels, calendars, greeting cards, business cards, newsletters, and postcards Microsoft Lync: integrated communications client for conferences and meetings in real time (known as Microsoft Office Communicator in Office 2007, bundled with Professional Plus and Enterprise editions[11]) Microsoft Project: project management software to keep track of events and to create network charts and Gantt charts, not bundled in any Office suite Microsoft Visio: diagram and flowcharting program not bundled in any Office suite The following applications are no longer part of Microsoft Office family: Microsoft FrontPage: a discontinued HTML editor for Windows. It is no longer being produced, as the expansion of the web proved that it is very difficult for one program to handle everything related to web content development. It was replaced by Visual Studio (for web developers), Microsoft SharePoint Designer (for SharePoint developers), Internet Explorer Developer Tools (for testers) and Microsoft WebMatrix (for enthusiasts). Microsoft SharePoint Designer: a specialized HTML editor for Windows that develops SharePoint sites, now part of Microsoft SharePoint family and offered as an independent freeware download Microsoft SharePoint Workspace: a discontinued desktop application for Windows designed for document collaboration in teams with members who are regularly offline or who do not share the same network security clearance Virtual PC for Mac: a discontinued Mac program that was once part of Microsoft Office for Mac

Server applications
Microsoft SharePoint: collaboration server

Excel Services InfoPath Forms Services Microsoft Project Server: project management server Microsoft Search Server Microsoft Lync Server (formerly Office Communications Server and Live Communications Server) real time communications server

Web services
Office Web Apps: A suite of web-based versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint Microsoft Office website: The official website of Microsoft Office Microsoft Update: Web site. Patch detection and installation service for Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office 365: Subscription-based software services that licenses Microsoft Office products for on-premise or cloud-based use.

Common features
Most versions of Microsoft Office (including Office 97 and later) use their own widget set and do not exactly match the native operating system. This is most apparent in Microsoft Office XP and 2003, where the standard menus were replaced with a colored flat looking, shadowed menu style. The user interface of a particular version of Microsoft Office often heavily influences a subsequent version of Microsoft Windows. For example, the toolbar, colored buttons and the gray-colored '3D' look of Office 4.3 were added to Windows 95, and the Ribbon, introduced in Office 2007, has been incorporated into several applications bundled with Windows 7. Users of Microsoft Office may access external data via connection-specifications saved in "Office Data Connection" (.odc) files.[12] Both Windows and Office use Service Packs to update software, Office used to release non-cumulative Service Releases, which were discontinued after Office 2000 Service Release 1. Programs in past versions of Office often contained substantial Easter eggs. For example, Excel 97 contained a reasonably functional flight-simulator. Versions starting with Office XP have not contained any easter eggs in the name of Trustworthy Computing.

File formats and metadata

Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007 used proprietary file formats.[13] This forced users who share data to adopt the same software platform.[14] In 2008, Microsoft made the entire documentation for the binary Office formats freely available for download and granted any possible patents rights for use or implementations of those binary format for free under the Open Specification Promise.[15] Previously, Microsoft had supplied such documentation freely but only on request. Starting with Office 2007, the default file format has been a version of Office Open XML, though different than the one standardized and published by Ecma International and by ISO/IEC. Microsoft has granted patent rights to the formats technology under the Open Specification Promise[16] and has made available free downloadable converters for previous versions of Microsoft Office including Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000[17] and Office 2004 for OS X. Third-party implementations of Office Open XML exist on the Windows platform (LibreOffice, all platforms), OS X platform (iWork '08, LibreOffice) and Linux (LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org 3.0). In addition, Office 2010 and Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 supports the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for opening and saving documents.

Microsoft provides the ability to remove metadata from Office documents. This was in response to highly publicized incidents where sensitive data about a document was leaked via its metadata.[18] Metadata removal was first available in 2004, when Microsoft released a tool called Remove Hidden Data Add-in for Office 2003/XP for this purpose.[19] It was directly integrated into Office 2007 in a feature called the Document Inspector.

Extensibility
A major feature of the Office suite is the ability for users and third party companies to write add-ins (plug-ins) that extend the capabilities of an application by adding custom commands and specialized features. One of the new features is the Office Store.[20] Plugins and other tools can be downloaded by users.[21] Developers can make money by selling their applications in the Office Store. The revenue is divided between the developer and Microsoft where developer gets 80% of the money.[22] Developers are able to share applications with all Office users (who Microsoft says number at 1 billion).[22] One such example of Office app is a heat map for Excel. The app travels with the document, and it's up to the developer what the recipient will see when they open it. They'll either have the option to download the app from the Office Store for free, start a free trial or be directed to payment.[22] With Office's cloud abilities, IT department can create a set of apps for their business employees.[23] When employees go to the Office Store, they'll see their company's apps under My Organization. The apps that employees have personally downloaded will appear under My Apps.[22] Developers can use web technologies like HTML5, XML, CSS3, JavaScript, and APIs for building the apps.[24] An application for Office is a webpage that is hosted inside an Office client application. User can use apps to amplify the functionality of a document, email message, meeting request, or appointment. Apps can run in multiple environments and by multiple clients, including rich Office desktop clients, Office Web Apps, mobile browsers, and also on-premises and in the cloud.[24] The type of add-ins supported differ by Office versions: Office 97 onwards (standard Windows DLLs i.e. Word WLLs and Excel XLLs) Office 2000 onwards (COM add-ins)[25] Office XP onwards (COM/OLE Automation add-ins)[26] Office 2003 onwards (Managed code add-ins VSTO solutions)[27]

Supported operating systems

Microsoft supports Office for the Windows and OS X platforms. Beginning with Mac Office 4.2, the OS X and Windows versions of Office share the same file format, and are interoperable. Visual Basic for Applications support was dropped in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac[28] but was restored in Microsoft Office for Mac 2011.[5] Microsoft tried in the mid-1990s to port Office to RISC processors such as NEC / MIPS and IBM / PowerPC, but they met problems such as memory access being hampered by data structure alignment requirements. Microsoft Word 97 and Excel 97 however did ship for the DEC Alpha platform. Difficulties in porting Office may have been a factor in discontinuing Windows NT on non-Intel platforms.[citation needed ] Stuart Cohen, CEO of Open Source Development Labs, conjectured in 2006 that Microsoft would eventually release a Linux port of Office,[29] but no release was ever published. Other operating systems were only supported by Microsoft Office Mobile, which supports the more popular features of Microsoft Office, and is available for Windows Mobile.

Licensing
In addition to supporting retail sales and site-wide installations, Microsoft offers a "Home Use Program" (HUP) permitting employees of a participating organization access to home-use Microsoft Office products.[30]

Support
On October 15, 2002, Microsoft announced their Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy.[31] Versions earlier than Office 2003 are no longer supported. For current and future versions of Office mainstream support will end five years after release, or two years after the next release, whichever time is later, and extended support will end five years after that.

Versions available

Legend: Old version Older version, still supported Current version

Microsoft Office support dates and supported operating systems Last Mainstream support end Extended support end Windows version version date date Windows 3.1x Windows NT 3.51 with Service Pack 5 Windows NT 4.0 Windows 95 without Service Pack Windows 95 with Service Pack 1 Windows 95 with Service Pack 2 Windows 95 with Service Pack 2.5 Windows 98 Windows 2000 without Service Pack Windows 2000 with Service Pack 1 Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 Windows Me Windows XP without Service Pack Windows XP with Service Pack 1 Windows XP with Service Pack 2 Windows XP with Service Pack 3 Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 Windows Vista Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Office 4.3 Office 97 Office XP Office 95 Office 97 Office 2000 Office 2000 Office XP Office 2000 Office 2000 Office XP Office 2003 Office 2003 Office XP Office 2003 Office 2003 Office 2007 Office 2010 Office 2003 Office 2007 Office 2010 Office 2007 Office 2010 Office 2010 Office 2010 Office 2013 Office 2013 Office 2013 Office 2013 Office 2013 Office 2013 ? August 31, 2001 July 11, 2006 ? August 31, 2001 June 30, 2004 June 30, 2004 July 11, 2006 June 30, 2004 June 30, 2004 July 11, 2006 April 14, 2009 April 14, 2009 July 11, 2006 April 14, 2009 April 14, 2009 April 10, 2012 October 13, 2015 April 14, 2009 April 10, 2012 October 13, 2015 April 10, 2012 October 13, 2015 October 13, 2015 October 13, 2015 April 10, 2018 April 10, 2018 April 10, 2018 April 10, 2018 April 10, 2018 April 10, 2018 ? February 28, 2002 July 12, 2011[32] ? February 28, 2002 July 14, 2009 July 14, 2009 July 12, 2011[32] July 14, 2009 July 14, 2009 July 12, 2011[32] April 8, 2014[33] April 8, 2014 July 12, 2011[32] April 8, 2014 April 8, 2014 April 11, 2017 October 13, 2020 April 8, 2014[33] April 11, 2017 October 13, 2020 April 11, 2017 October 13, 2020 October 13, 2020 October 13, 2020 April 11, 2023 April 11, 2023 April 11, 2023 April 11, 2023 April 11, 2023 April 11, 2023

Office for Mac support dates and supported platforms Mac OS version CPU Last version Support end date System 7.0Mac OS 8.1 System 7.1.2 68K Office 4.2.1 December 31, 1996[citation needed ] Office 98 June 30, 2003[34] December 31, 2005[35] January 9, 2007[36] January 10, 2012[37] April 9, 2013[38] January 12, 2016[39] January 12, 2016[39] PowerPC Office 4.2.1 December 31, 1996[citation needed ] PowerPC Office 2001

System 7.5Mac OS 8.0 PowerPC Mac OS 8.19.2.2

Mac OS X 10.110.5 PowerPC Office v. X Mac OS X 10.210.5 PowerPC Office 2004 Mac OS X 10.410.6 Mac OS X 10.510.7 OS X 10.8 Universal Office 2008 x86 x86 Office 2011 Office 2011

Discontinued applications and features

See also: Category:Discontinued Microsoft software Microsoft Binder Incorporates several documents into one file and was originally designed as a container system for storing related documents in a single file. The complexity of use and learning curve led to little usage, and it was discontinued after Office XP. Microsoft FrontPage This web design software requires its own server program for some functions. It was offered only as a stand-alone program for the 2003 version. In 2006, Microsoft announced they would discontinue it, and replace it with two software packages: Microsoft SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Expression Web. Microsoft Mail Mail client (in old versions of Office, later replaced by Microsoft Schedule Plus and subsequently Microsoft Outlook). Microsoft Office Document Image Writer a virtual printer that takes documents from Microsoft Office or any other application and prints them, or stores them in an image file as TIFF or Microsoft Document Imaging Format format. It was discontinued with Office 2010.[40] Microsoft Office Document Imaging an application that supports editing scanned documents. Discontinued with Office 2010.[40] Microsoft Office Document Scanning a scanning and OCR application. Discontinued with Office 2010.[40] Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 A graphics program that was first released as part of the Office 2000 Premium Edition. A later version for Windows XP compatibility was released, known as PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2. Microsoft discontinued the program in 2001. Microsoft Photo Editor Photo-editing/raster-graphics software in older Office versions up to Office XP. It was supplemented by Microsoft PhotoDraw in Office 2000 Premium edition. Microsoft Schedule Plus Released with Office 95. It featured a planner, to-do list, and contact information. Its functions were incorporated into Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Virtual PC Included with Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2004 for Mac. Microsoft discontinued support for Virtual PC on the Mac in 2006 owing to new Macs possessing the same Intel architecture as Windows PCs.[41] It emulated a standard PC and its hardware. Microsoft Vizact 2000 A program that "activated" documents using HTML, adding effects such as animation. It allows users to create dynamic documents for the Web. Development has ended due to unpopularity. Microsoft Data Analyzer 2002 A business intelligence program for graphical visualization of data and its analysis. Office Assistant, included since Office 97 (Windows) and Office 98 (Mac) as a part of Microsoft Agent technology, is a system that uses animated characters to offer context-sensitive suggestions to users and access to the help system. The Assistant is often dubbed "Clippy" or "Clippit", due to its default to a paper clip character, coded as CLIPPIT.ACS. The latest versions that include the Office Assistant were Office 2003 (Windows) and Office 2004

(Mac). Microsoft SharePoint Workspace (formerly known as Groove) a proprietary peer-to-peer collaboration software leveled at businesses Microsoft Office InterConnect business-relationship database available only in Japan Microsoft Office Picture Manager basic photo management software (similar to Google's Picasa or Adobe's Photoshop Elements), replaced Microsoft Photo Editor Microsoft Entourage

Discontinued server applications

Microsoft Office Forms Server lets users use any browser to access and fill InfoPath forms. Office Forms Server is a standalone server installation of InfoPath Forms Services. Microsoft Office Groove Server centrally managing all deployments of Microsoft Office Groove in the enterprise Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server allows creation of a project portfolio, including workflows, hosted centrally Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server allows customers to monitor, analyze, and plan their business

Discontinued web services

Office Live Office Live Small Business Web hosting services and online collaboration tools for small businesses. Office Live Workspace Online storage and collaboration service for documents, superseded by Office Web Apps and SkyDrive Office Live Meeting Web conferencing service.

Version history
Main article: History of Microsoft Office

Windows versions
Microsoft Office for Windows Microsoft Office for Windows[42] started in October 1990 as a bundle of three applications designed for Microsoft Windows 3.0: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1, Microsoft Excel for Windows 2.0, and Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 2.0.[43] Microsoft Office for Windows 1.5 updated the suite with Microsoft Excel 3.0.[44] Version 1.6[45] added Microsoft Mail for PC Networks 2.1 to the bundle.[46]
Microsoft Office 4.0

Microsoft Office 3.0 Microsoft Office 3.0,[47] also called Microsoft Office 92, was released on August 30, 1992 and[48] contained Word 2.0, Excel 4.0, PowerPoint 3.0 and Mail 3.0. It was the first version of Office also released on CD-ROM.[49] In 1993, The Microsoft Office Professional[50] was released, which added Microsoft Access 1.1.[51] Microsoft Office 4.x