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    Microsoft Office

    Suite of office software

    This article is about the original perpetually-licenced suite created by Microsoft. For the current subscription-licenced suite colloquially known as "Microsoft Office", see Microsoft

    Developer(s)Microsoft
    Initial releaseOctober&#;1, ; 34 years ago&#;()[1]
    Microsoft & Retail[a] (Windows) (Build ) / 11&#;February ; 8 days ago&#;()[2][3]
    Microsoft (Mac) (Build ) / 11&#;February ; 8 days ago&#;()[4]
    Office (LTSC) (Build ) / 11&#;February ; 8 days ago&#;()[3]
    Office (LTSC) (Build ) / 11&#;February ; 8 days ago&#;()[5]

    Microsoft apps[b]
    Windows / 14&#;February ; 5 days ago&#;()[6]
    Android (Build ) / 4&#;February ; 15 days ago&#;()[7][8]
    iOS / 11&#;February ; 8 days ago&#;()[9]
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    History of Microsoft Office

    Release dateTitleComponentsNotes
    October 1, [1]The Microsoft Office for Windows Word , Excel , PowerPoint [2]
    March 4, [3]Office Word , Excel , PowerPoint
    July 8, [4]Office Word , Excel , PowerPoint , Mail Last version for Windows
    Early Office Word a, Excel , PowerPoint e, Mail Mail licence only, no software.
    August 30, Office Word c, Excel , PowerPoint , Mail
    January 17, Office Word , Excel , PowerPoint , Mail
    June 2, Office Word , Excel , PowerPoint , Mail , Access
    July 3, Office for NT Word , Excel , PowerPoint , Office Manager
    August 24, Office 95 () Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Schedule+, Binder, Access, Bookshelf
    • The first Office version to have the same version number (, inherited from Word ) for all major component products (Word, Excel and so on).
    • First fully bit version.
    November 19, Office 97 () Word 97, Word 98

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    Looking back at 10 years of Microsoft making history

    The year of the first Internet worm, Rain Man, and the Office announcement

    Let’s go back to Bill Gates’s first announcement of the suite at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada (about which the Chicago Tribune witheringly reported, “Walking through the Microsoft Corp. booth is still like going to a casting call for Revenge of the Nerds, Part III.”i).

    At the time, COMDEX was the place to be—one of the biggest computer trade shows in the world. Dropping an announcement at COMDEX was a big deal, and the announcement of Microsoft’s forthcoming bundled office suite was a big deal.

    No one knew how big a deal, though. Not yet.

    The Microsoft Office for Windows was released October 1, ; it featured Word , Excel , and PowerPoint ii And it was about to change the way we use computers day to day.

    The original trio

    The Microsoft Office brand fryst vatten synonymous with productivity software, but the origin of the name lies in the rather generic