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Initial release 1990
Latest release 2007 SP1 (12. Software design is a process of problem-solving and planning for a Software solution Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer A software developer is a person or organization concerned with facets of the software development process wider than design and coding a somewhat broader scope of Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office system) is the most recent Windows version of the Microsoft Office system, Microsoft's 0. 6215. 1000) / December 11, 2007 (2007-12-11); 181 days ago
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Available in over 35 languages
Genre Office suite
License Proprietary
Website Microsoft Office for Windows
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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage; plus Word Publishing Layout and Word Notebook Layout views) running on Mac OS X v10.5
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Initial release 1989
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The current versions are Office 2007 for Windows, launched on January 30, 2007,[3] and Office 2008 for Mac OS X, released January 15, 2008. Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office system) is the most recent Windows version of the Microsoft Office system, Microsoft's Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is the most recent version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. Events 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah 's reign 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Office 2007/Office 2008 features a new user interface and a new OOXML-based primary file format (docx, xlsx, pptx). Office Open XML (also referred to as OOXML or OpenXML) is a File format for representing Spreadsheets Charts Presentations Microsoft has made available a free add-on known as the "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack" that lets Office 2000-2003 editions open, edit, and save documents created under the new Office 2007 formats.

Contents

History

Main article: History of Microsoft Office

The very first version of Microsoft Office was released in 1989, not for Windows, but for the Apple Macintosh. This article describes the history of Microsoft Office. Windows versions Timeline Editions Office 4 Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc Microsoft Office has long been the dominant player when it comes to software that offer word-processing, spreadsheet, and presentation tools.

History of Microsoft Office for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Office 3. 0 was the first version of Office to be released for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Office 4. 0 was released in 1994, containing Word 6. 0, Excel 5. 0, PowerPoint 4. 0, Mail, and Access. Word was called Word 6. 0 at this point despite the fact the previous version number was 2. 0. The purpose was to use common version numbering with the Mac OS version. Mac OS is the trademarked name for a series of Graphical user interface -based Operating systems developed by Apple Inc Office 4. 3 was the last 16-bit version, and is also the last version to support Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.1 and Windows NT 3.5 (Windows NT 3. Windows NT 31 is the first release of Microsoft 's Windows NT line of server and business desktop Operating systems and was released to Windows NT 35 is the second release of the Microsoft Windows NT Operating system. 51 was supported up to and including Office 97).

Office 95 was done as a fully 32-bit version to match Windows 95. The range of Integer values that can be stored in 32 bits is 0 through 4294967295 or −2147483648 through 2147483647 using Two's complement encoding Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented Graphical user interface -based Operating system. Office 95 was available in two versions, Office 95 Standard and Office 95 Professional. The standard version consists of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Schedule+. The professional edition contains all of the items in the standard version plus Access. If the professional version is purchased in CD-ROM form, it also includes Bookshelf. CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable A bookcase, or bookshelf, is a piece of Furniture, almost always with horizontal shelves used to store Books History of the bookcase Microsoft Office 97, a major milestone release which included hundreds of new features and improvements, introduced "Command Bars", a paradigm in which menus and toolbars were made more similar in capability and visual design. Office 97 also featured natural language systems and sophisticated grammar checking.

Office 2000 introduced adaptive menus, where little-used options were hidden from the user. Adaptive behavior is a type of Behavior that is used to adapt to another type of behavior or situation It also introduced a new security feature, built around digital signatures, to diminish the threat of macro viruses. A digital signature or digital signature scheme is a type of asymmetric cryptography used to simulate the security properties of a handwritten Signature Office 2000 automatically trusts macros (written in VBA6) that were digitally signed from authors who have been previously designated as trusted.

Office XP, released in conjunction with Windows XP, is a major upgrade with numerous enhancements and changes. Windows XP is a family of 32-bit and 64-bit Operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on Personal computers including home and Office XP introduced the Safe Mode feature. Safe mode usually refers to a diagnostic mode used by a computer Operating system (OS It allows applications such as Outlook to boot when it might otherwise fail. Safe Mode enables Office to detect and either repair or bypass the source of the problem, such as a corrupted registry or a misbehaving add-in. The Windows registry is a directory which stores settings and options for the Operating system for Microsoft Windows 32-bit versions 64-bit versions and Smart tag is a technology delivered with Office XP. Smart tags are a feature found in later versions of Microsoft Word, and beta versions of the Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 8 Web browser Some smart tags operate based on user activity, such as helping with typing errors. These smart tags are supplied with the products, and are not programmable. For developers, though, there is the ability to create custom smart tags. In Office XP, custom smart tags could work only in Word and Excel. Microsoft Office XP includes integrated voice command and text dictation capabilities, as well as handwriting recognition. Handwriting recognition is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible Handwritten input such as pendrives digital cameras and other devices Another feature introduced with Office XP is Product Activation, which is also implemented in Windows XP (and later versions of Windows and Office). Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary Computer Software programs Windows XP is a family of 32-bit and 64-bit Operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on Personal computers including home and Office XP is the oldest Office reported to work well with Vista, and is also the last version to support Windows 98/ME/NT 4.0. Windows Vista (ˈvɪstə is a line of Operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on Personal computers including home and business desktops Windows 98 ( codenamed Memphis) is a graphical Operating system released on 25 June 1998 by Microsoft and the successor to Windows 95 Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me (IPA pronunciation, iː is a hybrid 16-bit / 32-bit graphical Operating system released on 14 September Windows NT 40 is a preemptive, graphical and business-oriented Operating system designed to work with either Uniprocessor or symmetric

In 2003, Microsoft Office 2003 was released. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Two new applications made their debut in Office 2003: Microsoft InfoPath and OneNote. Microsoft InfoPath (full name Microsoft Office InfoPath) is an application used to develop XML -based data entry forms first released as part of the Microsoft Microsoft Office OneNote, usually referred to as Microsoft OneNote, is a commercial software product developed by Microsoft for Notetaking, information It is the first version to use Windows XP style icons. Outlook 2003 provides improved functionality in many areas, including Kerberos authentication, RPC over HTTP, and Cached Exchange Mode. The key benefit of Outlook 2003 is the improved junk mail filter. The current version of Microsoft Office for Windows was released in 2007 and is called Office 2007. Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office system) is the most recent Windows version of the Microsoft Office system, Microsoft's

On May 21, 2008 Microsoft announced that Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will add native support for the OpenDocument Format. Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office system) is the most recent Windows version of the Microsoft Office system, Microsoft's The OpenDocument format (ODF is a File format for electronic office documents such as Spreadsheets Charts presentations and [4] EU announced it is going to investigate Microsoft Office OpenDocument Format support. The European Union ( EU) is a political and economic union of twenty-seven member states, located primarily in [5]

History of Microsoft Office for Macintosh


Components

Desktop applications

Word

Main article: Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processor and was long considered to be the main program in Office, although with the rise of electronic communication that distinction has now passed to Outlook. Microsoft Word is Microsoft 's flagship word processing software. Microsoft Word is Microsoft 's flagship word processing software. Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook since Outlook 2003 is a Personal information manager from Microsoft, and is Word possesses a dominant market share in the word processor market. Market dominance is a measure of the strength of a Brand, product, service, or firm, relative to competitive offerings Its proprietary DOC format is considered a de facto standard, although its most recent version, Word 2007 can also use a new XML-based, Microsoft Office-optimized format called . In Computing, DOC or doc (an abbreviation of ' Document ' is a File extension for Word processing documents most commonly for DOCX which has been standardized by ECMA as Office Open XML. Ecma International (Ecma is an international private (membership-based non-profit Standards organization for information and communication systems Office Open XML (also referred to as OOXML or OpenXML) is a File format for representing Spreadsheets Charts Presentations Word is also available in some editions of Microsoft Works. Microsoft Works is an Office suite ("home productivity software suite" available from Microsoft. It is available for the Windows and Mac platforms. The first version of Word, released in the fall of 1983, was for the 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 one was not required. The following spring Apple introduced the Mac, and Microsoft released Word for the Mac, which became the most popular Mac application and which, like all Mac apps, required the use of a mouse.

Excel

Main article: Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program. In Computing, Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) consists of a proprietary Spreadsheet -application written and distributed In Computing, Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) consists of a proprietary Spreadsheet -application written and distributed A spreadsheet is a Computer application that simulates a paper worksheet Like Word, it possesses a dominant market share. Market dominance is a measure of the strength of a Brand, product, service, or firm, relative to competitive offerings It was originally a competitor to the dominant Lotus 1-2-3, but it eventually outsold it and became the de facto standard. Lotus 1-2-3 is a Spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (now part of IBM) It is available for the Windows and Mac platforms. The current Mac version (Office 2008) has removed Visual Basic functionality so macros cannot be used and those generated in previous iterations of Office no longer work.

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. Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook since Outlook 2003 is a Personal information manager from Microsoft, and is Microsoft Entourage is an E-mail client and Personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8 Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook since Outlook 2003 is a Personal information manager from Microsoft, and is Outlook Express is an e-mail / News client that was included with Internet Explorer versions Internet Explorer 4 Electronic mail, often abbreviated to e-mail, email, or originally eMail, is a Store-and-forward method of writing sending receiving The replacement for Windows Messaging, Microsoft Mail and Schedule+ (Plus) starting in Office 97, it includes an e-mail client, calendar, task manager and address book. Windows Messaging initially called Microsoft Exchange, was an e-mail client included with Windows 95 (beginning with OSR2 98 Microsoft Mail (or MSMail) was the name given to several early Microsoft e-mail products Although historically it has been offered for the Mac, the closest to an equivalent for Mac OS X is Microsoft Entourage, which offers a slightly different feature set. Microsoft Entourage is an E-mail client and Personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8

PowerPoint

Main article: Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint is a popular presentation program for Windows and Mac. Microsoft PowerPoint is a proprietary Presentation program developed by Microsoft. Microsoft PowerPoint is a proprietary Presentation program developed by Microsoft. A presentation program is a Computer software package used to display information normally in the form of a Slide show. It is used to create slideshows, composed of text, graphics, movies and other objects, which can be displayed on-screen and navigated through by the presenter or printed out on transparencies or slides. A transparency is a thin sheet of transparent flexible material typically Cellulose acetate, onto which figures can be drawn This is convenient for school or work presentations. A school (from Greek σχολεῖον - scholeion) is an Institution designed to allow and encourage Students (or "pupils" Office Mobile for Windows Mobile 5. Office Mobile is an Office suite by Microsoft for Windows Mobile Professional Classic and Standard editions Windows Mobile is a compact Operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for Mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 0 and later features a version of PowerPoint called PowerPoint Mobile. It also possesses a dominant market share. Movies, videos, sounds and music, as well as wordart and autoshapes can be added to slideshows.

Other desktop applications (Windows version only)

Server applications

Web services

Common features

Most versions of Microsoft Office (including Office 97 and later, and possibly 4. 3) use their own widget set and do not exactly match the native operating system. A widget toolkit, widget library, or GUI toolkit is a set of widgets for use in designing applications with Graphical user interfaces (GUIs This is more apparent in the 2002 or XP release of Microsoft Office where the standard menus were replaced with a colored flat looking, shadowed menu style.

Visual elements of Office packages' widget systems have been included in next versions of Windows systems and have offered some cues into what user interface (UI) elements a major Windows incarnation would employ in the future: The toolbar, colour buttons and the usually gray-coloured '3D' look of Office 4. 3 were added to Windows 95; The gradient title bar and flat buttons in Windows 9x/2000.

Similarly, Microsoft Office 2007 introduces a whole new widget system, dubbed "Ribbon", but now known as the "Fluent user interface". [7] The same widget used in Microsoft Office is also used in the Visual Studio product line, though the "Fluent UI" was not announced to be included in future versions of Visual Studio. A widget toolkit, widget library, or GUI toolkit is a set of widgets for use in designing applications with Graphical user interfaces (GUIs Microsoft Visual Studio is the main Integrated Development Environment (IDE from Microsoft. Later versions of Windows thus inherit the concepts of task-based user activities and easy discoverability of program functions.

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. Some of Microsoft 's early products included hidden Easter eggs. A virtual Easter egg is an intentional Hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, Book For example, Excel 97 contained a reasonably functional flight-simulator. Versions starting with Office 2000 have not contained any easter eggs in the name of Trustworthy Computing. The term Trustworthy Computing (TwC has been applied to computing systems that are inherently secure available and reliable

Extensibility

A major feature of the Office suite is the ability for users and third party companies to write add-ins that extend the capabilities of an application by adding custom commands and specialized features. The type of add-ins supported differ by Office versions:

Cross-platform

Microsoft develops Office for Windows and Mac platforms. Component Object Model ( COM) is an interface standard for Software componentry introduced by Microsoft in 1993 In Microsoft Windows applications programming OLE Automation (later renamed by Microsoft to just Automation, although the old term remained in widespread Beginning with Mac Office 4. 2, the Mac and Windows versions of Office share the same file format. Consequently, any Mac with Office 4. 2 or later can read documents created with Windows Office 4. 2 or later, and vice-versa. Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac drops VBA support. Visual Basic for Applications ( VBA) is an event-driven implementation of Microsoft's Visual Basic, a Procedural programming language [11] Microsoft has replaced VBA with support for AppleScript. AppleScript is a Scripting language devised by Apple Inc, and built into Mac OS. As a result, macros created with Office for Windows will not run on Office for the Mac, and vice versa. However the version after Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 will bring back VBA support. [12] In addition, Microsoft has also ceased development on Microsoft Virtual PC. Microsoft Virtual PC is a Virtualization suite for Microsoft Windows Operating systems and an Emulation suite for [2].

There were efforts 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. is a Japanese multinational IT company headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan. MIPS (originally an acronym for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) is a RISC microprocessor architecture developed by MIPS Technologies International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology PowerPC is a RISC Instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple – IBM – Motorola alliance known as AIM Data structure alignment is the way data is arranged and accessed in computer memory Difficulties in porting Office may have been a factor in discontinuing Windows NT on non-Intel platforms. Windows NT is a family of Operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993

Support lifecycle

Version Compatibility

Latest versions for platforms:

Windows

Beginning in 2002, Microsoft instituted a policy of Support Lifecycles including: [13][14]

Discontinued applications and features

See also: Category:Discontinued Microsoft software

Criticisms

Microsoft Office has been criticized in the past for using proprietary file formats rather than open standards, which forces users who share data into adopting the same software platform. An open standard is a Standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it [15] However, on February 15, 2008, Microsoft made the entire documentation for the binary Office formats freely available under the Open Specification Promise. Events 590 - Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia 1637 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common The Microsoft Open Specification Promise (or OSP) is an irrevocable Promise by Microsoft, published in September 2006, to not assert legal rights [16] Also, Office Open XML, the document format for the latest versions of Office for Windows and Mac, has been standarized under both Ecma International and ISO. Office Open XML (also referred to as OOXML or OpenXML) is a File format for representing Spreadsheets Charts Presentations Ecma International (Ecma is an international private (membership-based non-profit Standards organization for information and communication systems Ecma International has published the Office Open XML specification free of copyrights and Microsoft has granted patent rights to the formats technology under the Open Specification Promise[17] and has made available free downloadable converters for previous versions of Microsoft Office including Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000 and Office 2004 for the Mac. Macintosh, commonly nicknamed Mac is a Brand name which covers several lines of Personal computers designed developed and marketed by Apple Inc Third-party implementations of Office Open XML exist on the Mac platform (iWork 08) and Linux (OpenOffice.org 2. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks OpenOfficeorg ( OOo or OOo) is a free Cross-platform office application suite available for a number of different computer 3 - Novell Edition only).

Microsoft Office for Mac has for long been criticized for its lack of support of Unicode and BiDi languages, notably Arabic and Hebrew. In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's Bi-directional text is used as some Writing systems of the world notably the Arabic (including variants such as Nasta'liq) and Hebrew scripts The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. The Hebrew alphabet (אָלֶף-בֵּית עִבְרִי alephbet ’ivri) consists of 22 letters used for writing the Hebrew language. This has not changed in the 2008 version. [18][19]

See also

References

  1. ^ Microsoft Company. Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office system) is the most recent Windows version of the Microsoft Office system, Microsoft's Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is the most recent version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO is a set of development tools available in the form of a Visual Studio add-in and a runtime that allows Microsoft Office An open format is a published specification for storing digital data usually maintained by a Standards organization, which basically can be used and implemented by anyone Microsoft Dynamics is a line of Business software owned and developed by Microsoft, though the individual products were originally created by other companies and known The Microsoft Office XML formats (not to be confused with Office Open XML) are XML-based document formats (or XML schemas introduced in versions of Office Open XML (also referred to as OOXML or OpenXML) is a File format for representing Spreadsheets Charts Presentations Information Rights Management(IRM is a term that applies to a technology which protects sensitive information from unauthorised access Office Mobile is an Office suite by Microsoft for Windows Mobile Professional Classic and Standard editions OpenOfficeorg ( OOo or OOo) is a free Cross-platform office application suite available for a number of different computer IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of applications for creating editing and sharing text spreadsheet and other documents The History of Computing Project (2006-10-26). Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 740 - An Earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death Retrieved on 2006-11-09. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all
  2. ^ Chronology of Personal Computer Software. Retrieved on 2007-04-05. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 456 - St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
  3. ^ Office 2007 To Be Launched on January 30, 2007, Too.
  4. ^ Office 2007 won't support ISO's OOXML (David Worthington, SDTimes, 21 May 2008)
  5. ^ EU says to study Microsoft's open-source step
  6. ^ 2007 Office system suits
  7. ^ Office Fluent user interface overview
  8. ^ How to build an Office 2000 COM add-in in Visual Basic
  9. ^ How To Create a Visual Basic Automation Add-in for Excel Worksheet Functions
  10. ^ Information about designing Office add-ins by using the .NET Framework
  11. ^ WWDC: Microsoft updates Universal status of Mac apps. Macworld (2006-08-07). Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Retrieved on 2007-05-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo Spain back from the Moors.
  12. ^ Microsoft Mac BU Delivers Strongest Launch in History of Office for Mac. Microsoft (2008-05-13). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
  13. ^ Office Family Product Support Lifecycle FAQ
  14. ^ Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy FAQ
  15. ^ We Can Put an End to Word Attachments - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
  16. ^ Microsoft Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) File Formats documentation
  17. ^ Microsoft Open Specification Promise
  18. ^ Higgaion » It's official: no RTL support in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac:
  19. ^ Mac Mojo : “Velkommen, Tervetuloa, Velkommen” and “Bienvenue à Paris”

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