Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity applications developed by Microsoft, first announced in 1988. It includes programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and Publisher, and has evolved to include shared features and a development platform for business applications. As of 2012, it was reported that over a billion people worldwide were using Office.
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Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity applications developed by Microsoft, first announced in 1988. It includes programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and Publisher, and has evolved to include shared features and a development platform for business applications. As of 2012, it was reported that over a billion people worldwide were using Office.
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Microsoft Office
icrosoft 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, Object Linking and Embedding 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. In 2012, Softpedia reported that Office was being used by over a billion people worldwide
It contains a word processor (Word), a spreadsheet program (Excel) and
a presentation program (PowerPoint), an email client (Outlook), a database management system (Access), and a desktop publishing app (Publisher).