Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. On July 10, 2012, Softpedia reported that Office was being used by over a billion people worldwide. Office is produced in several versions targeted towards different end-users and computing environments.
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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. On July 10, 2012, Softpedia reported that Office was being used by over a billion people worldwide. 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. There are free to use in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Most versions of Microsoft Office use a flat-looking menu and do not use an operating system. In 2017, revenue from Office 365 overtook conventional license sales. The current on-premises, desktop version of Office is Office 2019, released on September 24, 2018, and will be available for purchase in September 2018. The free lightweight web version includes three web applications: Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The offering also includes Outlook. com, OneNote and OneDrive which are accessible through a unified app switcher. Users can install the on- Premises version of this service, called Office Online Server, in private clouds in conjunction with SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Lync Server. The service can also be installed privately in enterprise environments as a SharePoint app, or through Office Web Apps Server.
Microsoft offers other web apps in the Office suite, such as the Outlook Web App, Lync Web App and Project Web App. Additionally, Microsoft offers a service under the name of Online Doc Viewer to view Office documents on a website via Office On the web. This service is available to the general public free of charge with a Microsoft account through the Office. com website, which superseded SkyDrive and Office Live Workspace. In February 2013, the ability to view and edit files on SkyDrive without signing in was added. In July 2013, Word can render PDF documents or convert them to Microsoft Word documents, although the formatting of the document may deviate from the original. Since November 2013, Office apps have supported real-time co-authoring and autosaving files. Users may access via external connection via a data connection via the Office Web App or the Microsoft Office Online Web App. Users are able to select the command ‘Open in Desktop App’ that brings up the document in the desktop versions of Office on their computer or device to utilize the advanced features there. This is the only way to access advanced features such as macros and other advanced features in the full desktop editions of Office. For example, the toolbar and gray-colored buttons were added to Windows 95, and the ribbon was introduced in Windows 7 and later. In 2007, Office has been incorporated into several programs, including Office 2007, Windows 8 and Windows 9.
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