Microsoft Office, or simply Office,
is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by
Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in
Las Vegas. Initially, a marketing term for an office suite (bundled set of
productivity 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 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. On
July 10, 2012, Softpedia reported that Office was being used by over a billion
people worldwide.The office is produced in several
versions targeted towards different end-users and computing environments. The
original, and most widely used version, is the desktop version, available for
PCs running the Windows and macOS operating systems. Microsoft also maintains
mobile apps for Android and iOS. Office on the web is a version of the software
that runs within a web browser. Since Office 2013, Microsoft has
promoted Office 365 as the primary means of obtaining Microsoft Office: it
allows the use of the software and other services on a subscription business
model and users receive feature updates to the software for the lifetime of
the subscription, including new features and cloud computing integration that
are not necessarily included in the "on-premises" releases of Office
sold under conventional license terms. In 2017, revenue from Office 365
overtook conventional license sales. The current on-premises, the desktop version of Office is Office 2019, released on September 24, 2018.
Microsoft Office, or simply Office,
is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by
Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in
Las Vegas. Initially, a marketing term for an office suite (bundled set of
productivity 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 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. On
July 10, 2012, Softpedia reported that Office was being used by over a billion
people worldwide.
The office is produced in several
versions targeted towards different end-users and computing environments. The
original, and most widely used version, is the desktop version, available for
PCs running the Windows and macOS operating systems. Microsoft also maintains
mobile apps for Android and iOS. Office on the web is a version of the software
that runs within a web browser.
Since Office 2013, Microsoft has
promoted Office 365 as the primary means of obtaining Microsoft Office: it
allows the use of the software and other services on a subscription business
model and users receive feature updates to the software for the lifetime of
the subscription, including new features and cloud computing integration that
are not necessarily included in the "on-premises" releases of Office
sold under conventional license terms. In 2017, revenue from Office 365
overtook conventional license sales.
The current on-premises, the desktop version of Office is Office 2019, released on September 24, 2018.
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