Microsoft Office 2019 Free Download (Full Version)

Suite of office software

From top-left: Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, Teams, and Yammer.
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	November&#;19, ; 31 years ago&#;()
Office (Beta Channel) () / June&#;8, ; 15 months ago&#;() One-time purchase / October&#;5, ; 12 months ago&#;()[1]
Written in	C++ (back-end)[2]
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Standard(s)	Office Open XML (ISO/IEC )
Available in	languages[3]
List of languages Full (43): English, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay (Latin), Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin, Serbia), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Somali, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Partial (48): Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani (Latin), Bangla (Bangladesh), Bangla (Bengali India), Belarusian, Bosnian (Latin), Dari, Filipino, Georgian, Gujarati, Icelandic, Irish, Kannada, Khmer, Kiswahili, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nepali, Norwegian Nynorsk, Odia, Persian (Farsi), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Quechua, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia & Herzegovina), Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia), Sindhi (Arabic), Sinhala, Tamil, Tatar (Cyrillic), Telugu, Turkmen (Latin), Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek (Latin), Valencian, Welsh, Proofing only (11): Hausa, Igbo, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Kinyarwanda, Pashto, Romansh, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, Wolof, Yoruba
Type	Office suite
License	Trialware, volume licensing or SaaS
Website	aunds-abbruch.de

Microsoft Office for Mac apps from top left to bottom right: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	August&#;1, ; 33 years ago&#;()
Stable release	Microsoft Office
Written in	C++ (back-end), Objective-C (API/UI)[2]
Operating system	macOS Classic Mac OS (discontinued)
Available in	16 languages[10]
List of languages English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish
Type	Office suite
License	Proprietarycommercial software (retail, volume licensing, SaaS)
Website	aunds-abbruch.de&#;

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, , 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.

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).^[11]

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 macOSoperating 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 , Microsoft has promoted Office 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 , revenue from Office overtook conventional license sales. Microsoft also rebranded most of their standard Office editions into Microsoft to emphasize their current inclusion of products and services.^{[clarification needed]}

Components

See also: List of Microsoft Office programs

Core apps and services

• Microsoft Word is a word processor included in Microsoft Office and some editions of the now-discontinued Microsoft Works. The first version of Word, released in the autumn of , was for the MS-DOS operating system and introduced the computer mouse to more users. Word could be purchased with a bundled mouse, though none was required. Following the precedents of LisaWrite and MacWrite, Word for Macintosh attempted to add closer WYSIWYG features into its package. Word for Mac was released in Word for Mac was the first graphical version of Microsoft Word. Initially, it implemented the proprietary .doc format as its primary format. Word , however, deprecated this format in favor of Office Open XML, which was later standardized by Ecma International as an open format. Support for Portable Document Format (PDF) and OpenDocument (ODF) was first introduced in Word for Windows with Service Pack 2 for Word ^[12]
• Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor that originally competed with the dominant Lotus and eventually outsold it. Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Mac OS in and the first Windows version (numbered to line up with the Mac) in November
• Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program used to create slideshows composed of text, graphics, and other objects, which can be displayed on-screen and shown by the presenter or printed out on transparencies or slides.
• Microsoft OneNote is a notetaking program that gathers handwritten or typed notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. OneNote was initially introduced as a standalone app that was not included in any Microsoft Office edition. However, OneNote eventually became a core component of Microsoft Office; with the release of Microsoft Office , OneNote was included in all Microsoft Office offerings. OneNote is also available as a web app on Office on the web, a freemium (and later freeware) Windows desktop app, a mobile app for Windows Phone, iOS, Android, and Symbian, and a Metro-style app for Windows 8 or later.
• Microsoft Outlook (not to be confused with Outlook Express, aunds-abbruch.de or Outlook on the web) is a personal information manager that replaces Windows Messaging, Microsoft Mail, and Schedule+ starting in Office 97; it includes an e-mail client, calendar, task manager and address book. On the Mac OS, Microsoft offered several versions of Outlook in the late s, but only for use with Microsoft Exchange Server. In Office , it introduced an alternative application with a slightly different feature set called Microsoft Entourage. It reintroduced Outlook in Office , replacing Entourage.^[13]
• Microsoft OneDrive is a file hosting service that allows users to sync files and later access them from a web browser or mobile device.
• Microsoft Teams is a platform that combines workplace chat, meetings, notes, and attachments.

Windows-only apps

Mobile-only apps

• Office Lens is an image scanner optimized for mobile devices. It captures the document (e.g. business card, paper, whiteboard) via the camera and then straightens the document portion of the image. The result can be exported to Word, OneNote, PowerPoint or Outlook, or saved in OneDrive, sent via Mail or placed in Photo Library.
• Office Mobile is a unified Office mobile app for Android and iOS, which combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single app and introduces new capabilities as making quick notes, signing PDFs, scanning QR codes, and transferring files.^[15]
• Office Remote is an application that turns the mobile device into a remote control for desktop versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Server applications

Web services

Office on the web

Office on the web is a free lightweight web version of Microsoft Office and primarily includes three web applications: Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The offering also includes aunds-abbruch.de, 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.^[17]

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the web can all natively open, edit, and save Office Open XML files (docx, xlsx, pptx) as well as OpenDocument files (odt, ods, odp). They can also open the older Office file formats (doc, xls, ppt), but will be converted to the newer Open XML formats if the user wishes to edit them online. Other formats cannot be opened in the browser apps, such as CSV in Excel or HTML in Word, nor can Office files that are encrypted with a password be opened. Files with macros can be opened in the browser apps, but the macros cannot be accessed or executed.^[18][19][20] Starting in July , Word can render PDF documents or convert them to Microsoft Word documents, although the formatting of the document may deviate from the original.^[21] Since November , the apps have supported real-time co-authoring and autosaving files.^[22][23]

Office on the web lacks a number of the advanced features present in the full desktop versions of Office, including lacking the programs Access and Publisher entirely. However, users are able to select the command "Open in Desktop App" that brings up the document in the desktop version of Office on their computer or device to utilize the advanced features there.^[24][25]

Supported web browsers include Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 11, the latest versions of Firefox or Google Chrome, as well as Safari for OS X or later.^[26]

The Personal edition of Office on the web is available to the general public free of charge with a Microsoft account through the aunds-abbruch.de website, which superseded SkyDrive (now OneDrive) and Office Live Workspace. Enterprise-managed versions are available through Office ^[27] In February , the ability to view and edit files on SkyDrive without signing in was added.^[28] The service can also be installed privately in enterprise environments as a SharePoint app, or through Office Web Apps Server.^[17] Microsoft also offers other web apps in the Office suite, such as the Outlook Web App (formerly Outlook Web Access),^[29] Lync Web App (formerly Office Communicator Web Access),^[30] Project Web App (formerly Project Web Access).^[31] Additionally, Microsoft offers a service under the name of Online Doc Viewer to view Office documents on a website via Office on the web.^[32]

There are free extensions available to use Office on the web directly in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.^[33][34]

Common features

Most versions of Microsoft Office (including Office 97 and later) use their own widget set and do not exactly match the native operating system. This is most apparent in Microsoft Office XP and , where the standard menus were replaced with a colored, flat-looking, shadowed menu style.

The user interface of a particular version of Microsoft Office often heavily influences a subsequent version of Microsoft Windows. E.g

• The toolbar, colored buttons and the gray-colored 3D look of Office were added to Windows
• The ribbon, introduced in Office , has been incorporated into several programs bundled with Windows 7 and later.
• The flat, box-like design of Office (released in ) was replicated in Windows 8's new UI revamp.

Users of Microsoft Office may access external data via connection-specifications saved in Office Data Connection (.odc) files.^[35]

Office, on all platforms, support editing both server files (in real time) and offline files (manually saved) in the recent years. The support for editing server files (in real time) was originally introduced (in its current form) after the introduction of OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive). But, older versions of Office also have the ability to edit server files (notably Office ).

Both Windows and Office used service packs to update software. Office had non-cumulative service releases, which were discontinued after Office Service Release 1. Now, Windows and Office have shifted to predictable (monthly, semi-annual and annual) release schemes to update software.

Past versions of Office often contained Easter eggs. For example, Excel 97 contained a reasonably functional flight-simulator.

File formats and metadata

Microsoft Office prior to Office used proprietary file formats based on the OLE Compound File Binary Format.^[36] This forced users who share data to adopt the same software platform.^[37] In , Microsoft made the entire documentation for the binary Office formats freely available for download and granted any possible patents rights for use or implementations of those binary format for free under the Open Specification Promise.^[38][39] Previously, Microsoft had supplied such documentation freely but only on request.^[40]

Starting with Office , the default file format has been a version of Office Open XML, though different from the one standardized and published by Ecma International and by ISO/IEC. Microsoft has granted patent rights to the formats technology under the Open Specification Promise^[41] and has made available free downloadable converters for previous versions of Microsoft Office including Office , Office XP, Office ^[42] and Office for Mac OS X. Third-party implementations of Office Open XML exist on the Windows platform (LibreOffice, all platforms), macOS platform (iWork '08, NeoOffice, LibreOffice) and Linux (LibreOffice and aunds-abbruch.de ). In addition, Office , Service Pack 2 for Office , and Office for Mac supports the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for opening and saving documents – only the old ODF ( ISO/IEC standard) is supported, not the version ( ISO/IEC standard).

Microsoft provides the ability to remove metadata from Office documents. This was in response to highly publicized incidents where sensitive data about a document was leaked via its metadata.^[43] Metadata removal was first available in , when Microsoft released a tool called Remove Hidden Data Add-in for Office /XP for this purpose.^[44] It was directly integrated into Office in a feature called the Document Inspector.

Extensibility

A major feature of the Office suite is the ability for users and third-party companies to write add-ins (plug-ins) that extend the capabilities of an application by adding custom commands and specialized features. One of the new features is the Office Store.^[45]Plugins and other tools can be downloaded by users.^[46] Developers can make money by selling their applications in the Office Store. The revenue is divided between the developer and Microsoft where the developer gets 80% of the money.^[47] Developers are able to share applications with all Office users.^[47]

The app travels with the document, and it is for the developer to decide what the recipient will see when they open it. The recipient will either have the option to download the app from the Office Store for free, start a free trial or be directed to payment.^[47] With Office's cloud abilities, IT departments can create a set of apps for their business employees in order to increase their productivity.^[48] When employees go to the Office Store, they'll see their company's apps under My Organization. The apps that employees have personally downloaded will appear under My Apps.^[47] Developers can use web technologies like HTML5, XML, CSS3, JavaScript, and APIs for building the apps.^[49] An application for Office is a webpage that is hosted inside an Office client application. Users can use apps to amplify the functionality of a document, email message, meeting request, or appointment. Apps can run in multiple environments and by multiple clients, including rich Office desktop clients, Office Web Apps, mobile browsers, and also on-premises and in the cloud.^[49] The type of add-ins supported differ by Office versions:

Password protection

Main article: Microsoft Office password protection

Microsoft Office has a security feature that allows users to encrypt Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Skype Business) documents with a user-provided password. The password can contain up to characters and uses AES bit advanced encryption by default.^[53] Passwords can also be used to restrict modification of the entire document, worksheet or presentation. Due to lack of document encryption, though, these passwords can be removed using a third-party cracking software.^[54]

Support policies

Approach

All versions of Microsoft Office products from Office to Office are eligible for ten years of support following their release, during which Microsoft releases security updates for the product version and provides paid technical support. The ten-year period is divided into two five-year phases: The mainstream phase and the extended phase. During the mainstream phase, Microsoft may provide limited complimentary technical support and release non-security updates or change the design of the product. During the extended phase, said services stop.^[55] Office only receives 5 years of mainstream and 2 years of extended support and Office only gets 5 years of mainstream support.^[56]

Timelines of support

Platforms

Microsoft supports Office for the Windows and macOS platforms, as well as mobile versions for Windows Phone, Android and iOS platforms. Beginning with Mac Office , the macOS and Windows versions of Office share the same file format, and are interoperable. Visual Basic for Applications support was dropped in Microsoft Office for Mac,^[57] then reintroduced in Office for Mac ^[58]

Microsoft tried in the mids 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. Microsoft Word 97 and Excel 97, however, did ship for the DEC Alpha platform. Difficulties in porting Office may have been a factor in discontinuing Windows NT on non-Intel platforms.^[59]

Pricing model and editions

The Microsoft Office applications and suites are sold via retail channels, and volume licensing for larger organizations (also including the "Home Use Program". allowing users at participating organizations to buy low-cost licenses for use on their personal devices as part of their employer's volume license agreement).^[60]

In , Microsoft introduced a software as a service platform known as Office , to provide cloud-hosted versions of Office's server software, including Exchange e-mail and SharePoint, on a subscription basis (competing in particular with Google Apps).^[61][62] Following the release of Office , Microsoft began to offer Office plans for the consumer market, with access to Microsoft Office software on multiple devices with free feature updates over the life of the subscription, as well as other services such as OneDrive storage.^[63][64]

Microsoft has since promoted Office as the primary means of purchasing Microsoft Office. Although there are still "on-premises" releases roughly every three years, Microsoft marketing emphasizes that they do not receive new features or access to new cloud-based services as they are released unlike Office , as well as other benefits for consumer and business markets.^[65][66][67] Office revenue overtook traditional license sales for Office in ^[68]

Editions

Microsoft Office is available in several editions, which regroup a given number of applications for a specific price. Primarily, Microsoft sells Office as Microsoft The editions are as follows:

• Microsoft Personal
• Microsoft Family
• Microsoft Business Basic
• Microsoft Business Standard
• Microsoft Business Premium
• Microsoft apps for business
• Microsoft apps for enterprise
• Office E1, E3, E5
• Office A1, A3, A5 (for education)
• Office G1, G3, G5 (for government)
• Microsoft F1, F3, Office F3 (for frontline)

Microsoft sells Office for a one-time purchase as Home & Student and Home & Business, however, these editions do not receive major updates.

Education pricing

Post-secondary students may obtain the University edition of Microsoft Office subscription. It is limited to one user and two devices, plus the subscription price is valid for four years instead of just one. Apart from this, the University edition is identical in features to the Home Premium version. This marks the first time Microsoft does not offer physical or permanent software at academic pricing, in contrast to the University versions of Office and Office In addition, students eligible for DreamSpark program may receive select standalone Microsoft Office apps free of charge.

Discontinued applications and features

• Binder was an application that can incorporate several documents into one file and was originally designed as a container system for storing related documents in a single file. The complexity of use and learning curve led to little usage, and it was discontinued after Office XP.
• Bookshelf was a reference collection introduced in as part of Microsoft's extensive work in promoting CD-ROM technology as a distribution medium for electronic publishing.
• Data Analyzer was a business intelligence program for graphical visualization of data and its analysis.
• aunds-abbruch.de was a public document sharing service where Office users can upload and share Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Sway and PDF files for the whole world to discover and use.
• Entourage was an Outlook counterpart on macOS, Microsoft discontinued it in favor of extending the Outlook brand name.
• FrontPage was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool for Windows. It was branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from to FrontPage was discontinued in December and replaced by Microsoft SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Expression Web.
• InfoPath was a Windows application for designing and distributing rich XML-based forms. The last version was included in Office ^[69]
• InterConnect was a business-relationship database available only in Japan.
• Internet Explorer was a graphical web browser and one of the main participants of the first browser war. It was included in Office until Office XP when it was removed.
• Mail was a mail client (in old versions of Office, later replaced by Microsoft Schedule Plus and subsequently Microsoft Outlook).
• Office Accounting (formerly Small Business Accounting) was an accounting software application from Microsoft targeted towards small businesses that had between 1 and 25 employees.
• Office Assistant (included since Office 97 on Windows and Office 98 on Mac as a part of Microsoft Agent technology) was a system that uses animated characters to offer context-sensitive suggestions to users and access to the help system. The Assistant is often dubbed "Clippy" or "Clippit", due to its default to a paper clip character, coded as . The latest versions that include the Office Assistant were Office (Windows) and Office (Mac).
• Office Document Image Writer was a virtual printer that takes documents from Microsoft Office or any other application and prints them, or stores them in an image file as TIFF or Microsoft Document Imaging Format format. It was discontinued with Office ^[70]
• Office Document Imaging was an application that supports editing scanned documents. Discontinued Office ^[70]
• Office Document Scanning was a scanning and OCR application. Discontinued Office ^[70]
• Office Picture Manager was a basic photo management software (similar to Google's Picasa or Adobe's Photoshop Elements), that replaced Microsoft Photo Editor.
• PhotoDraw was a graphics program that was first released as part of the Office Premium Edition. A later version for Windows XP compatibility was released, known as PhotoDraw Version 2. Microsoft discontinued the program in
• Photo Editor was photo-editing or raster-graphics software in older Office versions up to Office XP. It was supplemented by Microsoft PhotoDraw in Office Premium edition.
• Schedule Plus (also shown as Schedule+) was released with Office It featured a planner, to-do list, and contact information. Its functions were incorporated into Microsoft Outlook.
• SharePoint Designer was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool. Microsoft attempted to turn it into a specialized HTML editor for SharePoint sites, but failed on this project and wanted to discontinue it.
• SharePoint Workspace (formerly Groove) was a proprietary peer-to-peer document collaboration software designed for teams with members who are regularly offline or who do not share the same network security clearance.
• Skype for Business was an integrated communications client for conferences and meetings in real-time; it is the only Microsoft Office desktop app that is neither useful without a proper network infrastructure nor has the "Microsoft" prefix in its name.
• Streets & Trips (known in other countries as Microsoft AutoRoute) is a discontinued mapping program developed and distributed by Microsoft.
• Unbind is a program that can extract the contents of a Binder file. Unbind can be installed from the Office XP CD-ROM.
• Virtual PC was included with Microsoft Office Professional Edition for Mac. Microsoft discontinued support for Virtual PC on the Mac in owing to new Macs possessing the same Intel architecture as Windows PCs.^[71] It emulated a standard PC and its hardware.
• Vizact was a program that "activated" documents using HTML, adding effects such as animation. It allows users to create dynamic documents for the Web. The development has ended due to unpopularity.

Discontinued server applications

Discontinued web services

• Office Live
  • Office Live Small Business had web hosting services and online collaboration tools for small businesses.
  • Office Live Workspace had online storage and collaboration service for documents, which was superseded by Office on the web.
• Office Live Meeting was a web conferencing service.

Criticism

Data formats

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.^[72] However, on February 15, , Microsoft made the entire documentation for the binary Office formats freely available under the Open Specification Promise.^[73] Also, Office Open XML, the document format for the latest versions of Office for Windows and Mac, has been standardized under both Ecma International and ISO. 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^[74] and has made available free downloadable converters for previous versions of Microsoft Office including Office , Office XP, Office and Office for the Mac. Third-party implementations of Office Open XML exist on the Mac platform (iWork 08) and Linux (aunds-abbruch.de – Novell Edition only).

Unicode and bi-directional texts

Another point of criticism Microsoft Office has faced was the lack of support in its Mac versions for Unicode and Bi-directional text languages, notably Arabic and Hebrew. This issue, which had existed since the first release in , was addressed in the version.^[75][76]

Privacy

On November 13, , a report initiated by the Government of the Netherlands concluded that Microsoft Office and Office do not comply with GDPR, the European law which regulates data protection and privacy for all citizens in and outside the EU and EFTA region.^[77] The investigation was initiated by the observation that Microsoft does not reveal or share publicly any data collected about users of its software. In addition, the company does not provide users of its (Office) software an option to turn off diagnostic and telemetry data sent back to the company. Researchers found that most of the data that the Microsoft software collects and "sends home" is diagnostics. Researchers also observed that Microsoft "seemingly tried to make the system GDPR compliant by storing Office documents on servers based in the EU". However, they discovered the software packages collected additional data that contained private user information, some of which was stored on servers located in the US.^[78] The Netherlands Ministry of Justice hired Privacy Company to probe and evaluate the use of Microsoft Office products in the public sector.^[79] "Microsoft systematically collects data on a large scale about the individual use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Covertly, without informing people", researchers of the Privacy Company stated in their blog post. "Microsoft does not offer any choice with regard to the amount of data, or possibility to switch off the collection, or ability to see what data are collected, because the data stream is encoded."^[80]

The researchers commented that there is no need for Microsoft to store information such as IPs and email addresses, which are collected automatically by the software. "Microsoft should not store these transient, functional data, unless the retention is strictly necessary, for example, for security purposes", the researchers conclude in the final report by the Netherlands Ministry of Justice.^[81]

As a result of this in-depth study and its conclusions, the Netherlands regulatory body concluded that Microsoft has violated GDPR "on many counts" including "lack of transparency and purpose limitation, and the lack of a legal ground for the processing."^[82] Microsoft has provided the Dutch authorities with an "improvement plan" that should satisfy Dutch regulators that it "would end all violations". The Dutch regulatory body is monitoring the situation and states that "If progress is deemed insufficient or if the improvements offered are unsatisfactory, SLM Microsoft Rijk will reconsider its position and may ask the Data Protection Authority to carry out a prior consultation and to impose enforcement measures."^[83] When asked for a response by an IT professional publication, a Microsoft spokesperson stated: We are committed to our customers’ privacy, putting them in control of their data and ensuring that Office ProPlus and other Microsoft products and services comply with GDPR and other applicable laws. We appreciate the opportunity to discuss our diagnostic data handling practices in Office ProPlus with the Dutch Ministry of Justice and look forward to a successful resolution of any concerns."^[79] The user privacy data issue affects ProPlus subscriptions of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office , including the online version of Microsoft Office ^[84]

History of releases

Version history

Main article: History of Microsoft Office

Windows versions

Microsoft Office for Windows

Microsoft Office for Windows^[] started in October as a bundle of three applications designed for Microsoft Windows Microsoft Word for Windows , Microsoft Excel for Windows , and Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows ^[]

Microsoft Office for Windows updated the suite with Microsoft Excel ^[]

Version ^[] added Microsoft Mail for PC Networks to the bundle.^[]

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office ,^[] also called Microsoft Office 92, was released on August 30, , and^[] contained Word , Excel , PowerPoint and Mail It was the first version of Office also released on CD-ROM.^[] In , Microsoft Office Professional^[] was released, which added Microsoft Access ^[]

Microsoft Office 4.x

Microsoft Office was released containing Word , Excel a, PowerPoint and Mail in ^[] Word's version number jumped from to so that it would have the same version number as the MS-DOS and Macintosh versions (Excel and PowerPoint were already numbered the same as the Macintosh versions).

Microsoft Office for Windows NT was released in for i, Alpha,^[] MIPS and PowerPC^[] architectures, containing Word and Excel (both bit,^[] PowerPoint (bit), and Microsoft Office Manager (the precursor to the Office Shortcut Bar)).

Microsoft Office 95

Microsoft Office 95 was released on August 24, Software version numbers were altered again to create parity across the suite&#;&#; every program was called version meaning all but Word missed out versions. Office 95 included new components to the suite such as Schedule+ and Binder. Office for Windows 95 was designed as a fully bit version to match Windows 95 although some apps not bundled as part of the suite at that time - Publisher for Windows 95 and Project 95 had some bit components even though their main program executable was bit.

Office 95 was available in two versions, Office 95 Standard and Office 95 Professional. The standard version consisted of Word , Excel , PowerPoint , and Schedule+ The professional edition contained all of the items in the standard version plus Access If the professional version was purchased in CD-ROM form, it also included Bookshelf.

The logo used in Office 95 returns in Office 97, and XP. Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition also uses a similar logo.

Microsoft Office 97

Microsoft Office 97 (Office ) included hundreds of new features and improvements, such as introducing 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 grammar checking. Office 97 featured new components to the suite including FrontPage 97, Expedia Streets 98 (in Small Business Edition), and Internet Explorer &

Office 97 was the first version of Office to include the Office Assistant. In Brazil, it was also the first version to introduce the Registration Wizard, a precursor to Microsoft Product Activation. With this release, the accompanying apps, Project 98 and Publisher 98 also transitioned to fully bit versions. Exchange Server, a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft, is the server for Outlook after discontinuing Exchange Client.

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office (Office ) introduced adaptive menus, where little-used options were hidden from the user. It also introduced a new security feature, built around digital signatures, to diminish the threat of macro viruses. The Microsoft Script Editor, an optional tool that can edit script code, was also introduced in Office ^[] Office automatically trusts macros (written in VBA 6) that were digitally signed from authors who have been previously designated as trusted. Office also introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and vector imaging program, as well as Web Components, Visio, and Vizact.

The Registration Wizard, a precursor to Microsoft Product Activation, remained in Brazil and was also extended to Australia and New Zealand, though not for volume-licensed editions. Academic software in the United States and Canada also featured the Registration Wizard.

Microsoft Office XP

Microsoft Office XP (Office or Office ) was released in conjunction with Windows XP, and was a major upgrade with numerous enhancements and changes over Office Office XP introduced the Safe Mode feature, which allows applications such as Outlook to boot when it might otherwise fail by bypassing a corrupted registry or a faulty add-in. Smart tag is a technology introduced with Office XP in Word and Excel and discontinued in Office

Office XP also introduces new components including Document Imaging, Document Scanning, Clip Organizer, MapPoint, and Data Analyzer. Binder was replaced by Unbind, a program that can extract the contents of a Binder file. Unbind can be installed from the Office XP CD-ROM.

Office XP includes integrated voice command and text dictation capabilities, as well as handwriting recognition. It was the first version to require Microsoft Product Activation worldwide and in all editions as an anti-piracy measure, which attracted widespread controversy.^[] Product Activation remained absent from Office for Mac releases until it was introduced in Office for Mac.

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office (Office ) was released in It featured a new logo. Two new applications made their debut in Office Microsoft InfoPath and OneNote. It is the first version to use new, more colorful icons. Outlook provides improved functionality in many areas, including Kerberos authentication, RPC over HTTP, Cached Exchange Mode, and an improved junk mail filter.

Office introduces three new programs to the Office product lineup: InfoPath, a program for designing, filling, and submitting electronic structured data forms; OneNote, a note-taking program for creating and organizing diagrams, graphics, handwritten notes, recorded audio, and text; and the Picture Managergraphics software which can open, manage, and share digital images.

SharePoint, a web collaboration platform codenamed as Office Server, has integration and compatibility with Office and so on.^[]

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office (Office ) was released in Office 's new features include a new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface,^[] replacing the menus and toolbars that have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception with a tabbed toolbar, known as the Ribbon; new XML-based file formats called Office Open XML; and the inclusion of Groove, a collaborative software application.^[]

While Microsoft removed Data Analyzer, FrontPage, Vizact, and Schedule+ from Office ; they also added Communicator, Groove, SharePoint Designer, and Office Customization Tool (OCT) to the suite.

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office (Office , Microsoft skipped due to fear of 13^[]) was finalized on April 15, , and made available to consumers on June 15, ^[][] The main features of Office include the backstage file menu, new collaboration tools, a customizable ribbon, protected view and a navigation panel. Office Communicator, an instant messaging and videotelephony application, was renamed into Lync

This is the first version to ship in bit and bit variants. Microsoft Office featured a new logo, which resembled the logo, except in gold, and with a modification in shape.^[] Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Office on June 28, ^[] and Service Pack 2 on July 16, ^[] Office Online was first released online along with SkyDrive, an online storing service.

Microsoft Office

A technical preview of Microsoft Office (Build ) was released on January 30, , and a Customer Preview version was made available to consumers on July 16, ^[] It sports a revamped application interface; the interface is based on Metro, the interface of Windows Phone and Windows 8. Microsoft Outlook has received the most pronounced changes so far; for example, the Metro interface provides a new visualization for scheduled tasks. PowerPoint includes more templates and transition effects, and OneNote includes a new splash screen.^[]

On May 16, , new images of Office 15 were revealed, showing Excel with a tool for filtering data in a timeline, the ability to convert Roman numerals to Arabic numerals, and the integration of advanced trigonometric functions. In Word, the capability of inserting video and audio online as well as the broadcasting of documents on the Web were implemented.^[] Microsoft has promised support for Office Open XML Strict starting with version 15, a format Microsoft has submitted to the ISO for interoperability with other office suites, and to aid adoption in the public sector.^[] This version can read and write ODF (Windows only).^[]

On October 24, , Office Professional Plus was released to manufacturing and was made available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers for download.^[] On November 15, , the day trial version was released for public download.^[] Office was released to general availability on January 29, ^[] Service Pack 1 for Office was released on February 25, ^[] Some applications were completely removed from the entire suite including SharePoint Workspace, Clip Organizer, and Office Picture Manager.

Microsoft Office

Main article: Microsoft Office

On January 22, , the Microsoft Office blog announced that the next version of the suite for Windows desktop, Office , was in development. On May 4, , a public preview of Microsoft Office was released.^[][][] Office was released for Mac OS X on July 9, ^[] and for Windows on September 22, ^[]

Users who had the Professional Plus subscription have the new Skype for Business app. Microsoft Teams, a team collaboration program meant to rival Slack, was released as a separate product for business and enterprise users.

Microsoft Office

Main article: Microsoft Office

On September 26, , Microsoft announced that the next version of the suite for Windows desktop, Office , was in development. On April 27, , Microsoft released Office Commercial Preview for Windows ^[] It was released to general availability for Windows 10 and for macOS on September 24, ^[]

Microsoft Office

Main article: Microsoft Office

On February 18, , Microsoft announced that the next version of the suite for Windows desktop, Office , was in development.^[] This new version will be supported for five years and was released on October 5, ^[]

Mac versions

Prior to packaging its various office-type Mac OS software applications into Office, Microsoft released Mac versions of Word in , the first year of the Macintosh computer; Excel in ; and PowerPoint in ^[] Microsoft does not include its Access database application in Office for Mac.

Microsoft has noted that some features are added to Office for Mac before they appear in Windows versions, such as Office for Mac 's Office Project Gallery and PowerPoint Movie feature, which allows users to save presentations as QuickTime movies.^[][] However, Microsoft Office for Mac has been long criticized for its lack of support of Unicode and for its lack of support for right-to-left languages, notably Arabic, Hebrew and Persian.^[][]

Early Office for Mac releases (–)

Microsoft Office for Mac was introduced for Mac OS in , before Office was released for Windows.^[] It included Word , Excel , PowerPoint , and Mail ^[] It was originally a limited-time promotion but later became a regular product. With the release of Office on CD-ROM later that year, Microsoft became the first major Mac publisher to put its applications on CD-ROM.^[]

Microsoft Office for Mac was released in and included the updated Excel , the first application to support Apple's System 7operating system.^[]

Microsoft Office for Mac was released in and included Word , Excel , PowerPoint and Mail Client. Excel was the first application to support new AppleScript.^[]

Microsoft Office for Mac was released in (Version was skipped to synchronize version numbers with Office for Windows) Version included Word , Excel , PowerPoint and Mail ^[] It was the first Office suite for Power Macintosh.^[] Its user interface was identical to Office for Windows^[] leading many customers to comment that it wasn't Mac-like enough.^[] The final release for Mac 68K was Office , which updated Word to version , somewhat improving performance.

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition was unveiled at MacWorld Expo/San Francisco in It introduced the Internet Explorer web browser and Outlook Express, an Internet e-mail client and usenet newsgroup reader.^[] Office 98 was re-engineered by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit to satisfy customers' desire for software they felt was more Mac-like.^[] It included drag–and-drop installation, self-repairing applications and Quick Thesaurus, before such features were available in Office for Windows. It also was the first version to support QuickTime movies.^[]

Microsoft Office and v. X

Microsoft Office v. X box art

Microsoft Office was launched in as the last Office suite for the classic Mac OS. It required a PowerPC processor. This version introduced Entourage, an e-mail client that included information management tools such as a calendar, an address book, task lists and notes.^[] Microsoft Office v. X was released in and was the first version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS X.^[] Support for Office v. X ended on January 9, , after the release of the final update, ^[] Office v.X includes Word X, Excel X, PowerPoint X, Entourage X, MSN Messenger for Mac and Windows Media Player 9 for Mac; it was the last version of Office for Mac to include Internet Explorer for Mac.^[]

Office

Microsoft Office for Mac was released on May 11, ^[] It includes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage and Virtual PC. It is the final version of Office to be built exclusively for PowerPC and to officially support G3 processors, as its sequel lists a G4, G5, or Intel processor as a requirement. It was notable for supporting Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which is unavailable in Office This led Microsoft to extend support for Office from October 13, , to January 10, VBA functionality was reintroduced in Office , which is only compatible with Intel processors.

Office

Microsoft Office for Mac was released on January 15, It was the only Office for Mac suite to be compiled as a universal binary, being the first to feature native Intel support and the last to feature PowerPC support for G4 and G5 processors, although the suite is unofficially compatible with G3 processors. New features include native Office Open XML file format support, which debuted in Office for Windows,^[] and stronger Microsoft Office password protection employing AES and SHA Benchmarks suggested that compared to its predecessor, Office ran at similar speeds on Intel machines and slower speeds on PowerPC machines.^[] Office also lacked Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support, leaving it with only 15 months of additional mainstream support compared to its predecessor. Nevertheless, five months after it was released, Microsoft said that Office was "selling faster than any previous version of Office for Mac in the past 19 years" and affirmed "its commitment to future products for the Mac."^[]

Office

Microsoft Office for Mac was released on October 26, ,.

Screenshots

Ratings and Reviews

Subscriptions

The developer, Microsoft Corporation, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

More By This Developer

You Might Also Like

You can still pick between Microsoft Office (desktop) and Microsoft (web version).

While both offer the same programs that Office users are accustomed to, the upfront costs and platforms they’re used on vary.

Microsoft Office (Desktop)

Microsoft Office (desktop) can be purchased for a one-time payment for the program to be installed on a single device.

You are either given a physical key card with your own specific download code, or you can download the program straight from the Microsoft website.

This key gives you access to the program for as long as you like. In the event of a Microsoft upgrade or a new version of Microsoft Office, you would then have to purchase the new package if you want to receive support.

Standard Office bundles come with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Microsoft Office programs must be purchased for the user’s operating system (OS) – either a Mac or PC.

If the user gets a new computer, or switches to a different OS, they’ll have to repurchase Office.

Microsoft (Online Subscription)

Microsoft is a subscription product, which you can pay for monthly or annually. As noted above, this product was formerly known as “Office ” until it was rebranded in April

Program upgrades are included with this fee, so whenever Microsoft updates its Office apps, you will automatically receive the newest versions.

Because is cloud-based, it can be accessed via any device. This technology allows flexibility for businesses and their employees, as documents and programs aren’t simply tethered to the computer to which the program is licensed.

Microsoft Personal subscriptions can be used on up to five devices across Mac and PC, and it includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access. Subscribers also receive additional OneDrive storage (1 TB) and 60 free Skype minutes every month.

Microsoft Family subscriptions can be shared by 6 people in total. It includes all of the features of the Personal plan, plus additional OneDrive storage (6 TB).

Microsoft Business plans include Office apps, plus additional features like access to Microsoft Teams and advanced security protections.

Microsoft introduced with the goal of eventually phasing out one-time purchases.

If you don’t frequently update Office, its traditional product should work just fine. But, if you’re interested in getting access to exclusive upgrades, will float your boat.

Regardless, keep in mind that Microsoft made it clear it will phase out the traditional Office Suite in the not-so-distant future.

The Microsoft Office Suite hosts some of the most widely-used applications for work and education, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, and now, Microsoft Teams. However, ranging from $$ a year, the Suite's subscriptions can cost a pretty penny. While Microsoft's release of Office Home and Student  for a one-time flat rate of $ is a nice deal, many of us still working and learning from home -- or just wanting to save money -- could really use a free option. 

Believe it or not, free options are available. Here are three methods you can use to access the Office suite at no cost.  

What's the catch?

You may be asking yourself, "If I can access all of these apps and programs for free, why should I even pay for Microsoft Office?" While these cloud-based methods on the web and mobile come at no cost, they do require you to be connected to the internet at all times, the amount of storage that Microsoft provides is capped, and there are several software tools and features from the paid versions that are unavailable.

How to get Microsoft Office for free

There are a few different methods on how you can go about this, so read on to see which method makes the most sense for you. 

Method 1. Access through aunds-abbruch.de

The first free option is accessing Microsoft Office via the web. All you need is a stable internet connection to do so. Similar to Google Drive, by logging into your Microsoft account in aunds-abbruch.de, you can use the cloud-based versions of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and more, instead of installing them. This is the best option if you simply want access to the standard suite of Office apps, the basic editing and formatting capabilities, as well as 5GB of OneDrive cloud storage. 

 More: Get an entire career's worth of Microsoft training for only $ 

Method 2. Download the Office app for mobile 

If you're like me and find yourself working from your phone more often than you should, then allow me to introduce you to the Microsoft Office app for mobile. Like the web version, the app allows users (iOS and Android) to dial into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other programs via the OneDrive system. 

With the latest version of the Office app, you can now transfer your phone's photos into Word and Excel documents for quick editing, and create and sign PDFs without needing to switch over to a computer.

Method 3. Microsoft Education for students and teachers

If you're a student or teacher with an active school email address, you may be eligible to get complete Office suite access for free through Office Education. 

With Office Education, you have access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and even Microsoft Teams. If you're a teacher, you can even take advantage of Microsoft Teams' new classroom tools for enhanced organization and file management. 

More: What's new in Microsoft Teams: Polls updates and more 

Simply visit the Microsoft Education homepage and enter your school email address to see if you qualify. If the registration is denied, you likely need to speak with your institution's IT department to permit access.  

Screenshots

Ratings and Reviews

Subscriptions

The developer, Microsoft Corporation, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

More By This Developer

You Might Also Like

The Microsoft Office Suite hosts some of the most widely-used applications for work and education, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, and now, Microsoft Teams, microsoft office. However, ranging from $$ a year, the Suite's subscriptions can cost a pretty penny. While Microsoft's release of Office Home and Student  for a one-time flat rate of $ is a nice deal, many of us still working and learning from home -- or microsoft office wanting to save money -- could really use a free option. 

Believe it or not, free options are available. Here are three methods you can use to access the Office suite at no cost.  

What's the catch?

You may be asking yourself, "If I can access all of these apps and programs for free, why should I even pay for Microsoft Office?" While these cloud-based methods on the web and mobile come at no cost, they do require you to be connected to the internet at all times, the amount of storage that Microsoft provides is capped, and there are several software tools and features from the paid versions that are unavailable.

How to get Microsoft Office for free

There are a few different methods on how you can go about this, so read on to see which method makes the microsoft office sense for you. 

Method 1. Access through aunds-abbruch.de

The first free option is accessing Microsoft Office via the web. All you need microsoft office a stable internet connection to do so. Similar to Google Drive, by logging into your Microsoft account in aunds-abbruch.de, you microsoft office use the cloud-based versions of Microsoft Excel, Word, microsoft office, PowerPoint, and more, instead of installing them. This is the best option if you microsoft office want access to the standard suite of Office apps, the basic editing and formatting capabilities, as well as 5GB of OneDrive cloud storage. 

 More: Get an entire career's worth of Microsoft training for only $ 

Method 2. Download the Office app for mobile 

If you're like me and find yourself working from your phone more often than you should, then allow me to introduce you to the Microsoft Office app for mobile. Like the web version, the app allows users (iOS and Android) to dial into Word, microsoft office, Excel, PowerPoint, and other programs via the OneDrive system. 

With the latest version of the Office app, you can now transfer your phone's photos into Word and Excel documents for quick editing, and create and sign PDFs without needing to switch over to a computer.

Method 3. Microsoft Education for students and teachers

If you're a student or teacher with an active school email address, you may be eligible to get complete Office suite access for free through Office Education. 

With Office Education, you have access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and even Microsoft Teams. If you're a teacher, microsoft office, you can even take advantage of Microsoft Teams' new classroom tools for enhanced organization and file management. 

More: What's new in Microsoft Teams: Polls updates and more 

Simply visit the Microsoft Education homepage and enter your school email address to see if you qualify, microsoft office. If the registration is denied, you likely need to speak with your VMWare Workstation 15 License Free Activators IT department to permit access.  

Suite of office software

From top-left: Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, microsoft office, SharePoint, Teams, and Yammer.
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	November&#;19, ; 31 years ago&#;()
Office (Beta Channel) () / June&#;8, ; 15 months ago&#;() One-time purchase / October&#;5, ; 12 months ago&#;()[1]
Written in	C++ (back-end)[2]
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Standard(s)	Office Open XML (ISO/IEC )
Available in	languages[3]
List of languages Full (43): English, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, microsoft office, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay (Latin), Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin, Serbia), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Somali, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Partial (48): Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani (Latin), Bangla (Bangladesh), Bangla (Bengali India), Belarusian, Bosnian (Latin), Dari, Filipino, Georgian, Gujarati, Icelandic, Irish, Kannada, Khmer, Kiswahili, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nepali, Norwegian Nynorsk, Odia, Persian (Farsi), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Quechua, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia & Herzegovina), Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia), Sindhi microsoft office, Sinhala, Tamil, Tatar (Cyrillic), Telugu, Turkmen (Latin), Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek (Latin), Valencian, Welsh, Proofing only (11): Hausa, Igbo, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Kinyarwanda, Pashto, Romansh, microsoft office, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, microsoft office, Wolof, Yoruba
Type	Office suite
License	Trialware, volume licensing or SaaS
Website	aunds-abbruch.de

Microsoft Office for Mac apps from top left to bottom right: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	August&#;1, ; 33 years ago&#;()
Stable release	Microsoft Office
Written in	C++ (back-end), Objective-C (API/UI)[2]
Operating system	macOS Classic Mac OS (discontinued)
Available in	16 languages[10]
List of languages English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, microsoft office, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish
Type	Office suite
License	Proprietarycommercial software (retail, volume licensing, SaaS)
Website	aunds-abbruch.de&#;

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,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 office. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand.

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).^[11]

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 macOSoperating systems. Microsoft also maintains mobile apps for Microsoft office and iOS, microsoft office. Office on the web is a version of the software that runs within a web browser.

Since OfficeMicrosoft has promoted Office 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" microsoft office of Office sold under conventional license terms. Inrevenue from Office overtook conventional license sales. Microsoft also rebranded most of their standard Office editions into Microsoft to microsoft office their current inclusion of products and services.^{[clarification needed]}

Components

See also: List of Microsoft Office programs

Core apps and services

• Microsoft Word is a word processor included in Microsoft Office and some editions of the now-discontinued Microsoft Works. The first version of Word, released in the autumn ofwas for the MS-DOS operating system and introduced the computer mouse to more users. Word could be purchased with a bundled mouse, though none was required. Following the precedents of LisaWrite and MacWrite, Word for Macintosh attempted to add closer WYSIWYG features into its package. Word for Mac was released in Word for Mac was the first graphical version of Microsoft Word. Initially, it implemented the proprietary .doc format as its primary format, microsoft office. Wordhowever, deprecated this format in favor of Office Open XML, which was later standardized by Ecma International as an open format. Support for Portable Document Format (PDF) and OpenDocument (ODF) was first introduced in Word for Windows with Service Pack 2 for Word ^[12]
• Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor that originally competed with the dominant Lotus and eventually outsold it. Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Mac OS in and the first Windows version (numbered to line up with the Mac) in November
• Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program used to create slideshows composed of text, graphics, and other objects, which can be displayed on-screen and shown by the presenter or printed out on transparencies or slides.
• Microsoft OneNote is a notetaking program that gathers handwritten or typed notes, drawings, microsoft office clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with microsoft office OneNote users over the Internet or a network. OneNote was initially introduced as a standalone app that was not included in any Microsoft Proshow producer full edition. However, OneNote eventually became a core component of Microsoft Office; with the release of Microsoft Officemicrosoft office, OneNote was included in all Microsoft Office offerings. OneNote is also available as a microsoft office app on Office on the web, microsoft office, a freemium (and later freeware) Windows desktop app, a mobile app for Windows Phone, iOS, Android, and Symbian, and a Metro-style app for Windows 8 or later.
• Microsoft Outlook (not to be confused with Outlook Express, microsoft office, aunds-abbruch.de or Outlook on the web) is a personal information manager that replaces Windows Messaging, Microsoft Mail, and Schedule+ starting in Office 97; it includes an e-mail client, calendar, task manager and address book. On the Mac OS, Microsoft offered several versions of Outlook in the late s, but only for use with Microsoft Exchange Server. In Officeit introduced an alternative application with a slightly different microsoft office set called Microsoft Entourage. It reintroduced Outlook in Officereplacing Entourage.^[13]
• Microsoft OneDrive is a file hosting service that allows users to sync files and later access them from a web browser or mobile device.
• Microsoft Teams is a platform that combines workplace chat, meetings, notes, and attachments.

Windows-only apps

Mobile-only apps

• Office Lens is an image scanner optimized for mobile devices. It captures the document (e.g. business card, microsoft office, paper, whiteboard) via the camera and then straightens the document portion of the image. The result can be exported to Word, microsoft office, OneNote, PowerPoint or Outlook, or saved in OneDrive, sent via Mail or placed in Photo Library.
• Office Mobile is a unified Office mobile app microsoft office Android and iOS, which combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single app and introduces microsoft office capabilities as making quick notes, signing PDFs, scanning QR codes, and transferring files.^[15]
• Office Remote is an application that turns the mobile device into a remote control for desktop versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Server applications

Web services

Office on the web

Office on the web is a free lightweight web version of Microsoft Office and primarily includes three web applications: Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The offering also includes aunds-abbruch.de, 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.^[17]

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the web can all natively open, edit, and save Office Open XML files (docx, xlsx, pptx) as well as OpenDocument files (odt, ods, odp). They can also open the older Office file formats (doc, xls, ppt), but will be converted to the newer Open XML formats if the user wishes to edit them online. Other formats cannot be opened in the browser apps, such as CSV in Excel or HTML in Word, nor can Office files that are encrypted with a password be opened. Files with macros can be opened in the browser apps, but the macros cannot be accessed or executed.^[18][19][20] Starting in JulyWord can render PDF documents or microsoft office them to Microsoft Word documents, although the formatting of the document may deviate from the original.^[21] Since Novemberthe apps have supported real-time co-authoring and autosaving files.^[22][23]

Office on the web lacks a number of the advanced features present in the full desktop versions of Office, including lacking the programs Access and Publisher entirely. However, users are able to select the command "Open in Desktop App" that brings up the document in the desktop version of Office on microsoft office computer or device to utilize the advanced features there.^[24][25]

Supported web browsers include Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 11, the latest versions of Firefox or Google Chrome, as well as Safari for OS X microsoft office later.^[26]

The Personal edition of Office on the web is available to the general public free of charge with a Microsoft account through the aunds-abbruch.de website, which superseded SkyDrive (now OneDrive) and Office Live Workspace. Enterprise-managed versions are available through Office ^[27] In Februarythe ability to view and edit files on SkyDrive without signing in was added.^[28] The service can also be installed privately in enterprise environments as a SharePoint app, microsoft office, or through Office Web Apps Server.^[17] Microsoft also offers other web apps in the Office suite, such as the Outlook Web App (formerly Outlook Web Access),^[29] Lync Web App (formerly Office Communicator Web Access),^[30] Project Web App (formerly Project Web Access).^[31] Additionally, Microsoft offers a service under the name microsoft office Online Doc Viewer to view Office documents on a website via Office on the web.^[32]

There are free extensions available to use Office on the web directly in Google Chrome microsoft office Microsoft Edge.^[33][34]

Common features

Most versions of Microsoft Office (including Office 97 and later) use their own widget avg ultimate serial key Activators Patch and do not exactly match the native operating system. This is most apparent in Microsoft Office XP andwhere the standard menus were replaced with a colored, microsoft office, flat-looking, shadowed menu style.

The user interface of a particular version of Microsoft Office often heavily influences a subsequent version of Microsoft Windows. E.g

• The toolbar, colored microsoft office and the gray-colored 3D look of Office were added to Windows
• The ribbon, microsoft office, introduced in Officehas been incorporated into several programs bundled with Windows 7 and later.
• The flat, box-like design of Office (released in ) was microsoft office in Windows 8's new UI revamp.

Users of Microsoft Office may access external data via connection-specifications saved in Office Data Connection (.odc) files.^[35]

Office, on all platforms, microsoft office, support editing both server files (in real time) and microsoft office files (manually saved) in the recent years. The support for editing server files (in real time) was originally introduced (in its current form) after the introduction of OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive). But, older versions of Office also have the ability to edit server files (notably Office ).

Both Windows and Office used service packs to update software. Office had non-cumulative service releases, which were discontinued after Office Service Release 1. Now, Windows and Office have shifted to predictable (monthly, microsoft office, semi-annual and annual) release schemes to update software.

Past versions of Office often contained Easter eggs. For example, Excel 97 contained a reasonably functional flight-simulator.

File formats and metadata

Microsoft Office prior to Microsoft office used proprietary file formats microsoft office on the OLE Compound File Binary Format.^[36] This forced users who share data to adopt microsoft office same software platform.^[37] InMicrosoft made the entire documentation for the binary Office formats freely microsoft office for powerdvd 19 and granted any possible patents rights for use or implementations of those binary format for free under the Open Specification Promise.^[38][39] Previously, Microsoft had supplied such documentation freely but only on request.^[40]

Starting with Officethe default file format has been a version of Office Open XML, though different from the one standardized and published by Ecma International and by ISO/IEC. Microsoft has granted patent rights to the formats technology under the Open Specification Promise^[41] and has made available free downloadable converters for previous versions of Microsoft Office including OfficeOffice XP, Office ^[42] and Office for Mac OS X. Third-party implementations of Office Open XML exist on the Windows platform (LibreOffice, all platforms), macOS platform (iWork '08, NeoOffice, LibreOffice) and Linux (LibreOffice and aunds-abbruch.de ). In addition, OfficeService Pack 2 for Officeand Office for Mac supports the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for opening and saving documents – only the old ODF ( ISO/IEC standard) is supported, not the version ( ISO/IEC standard).

Microsoft provides the ability to remove metadata microsoft office Office documents. This was in response to highly publicized incidents where sensitive data about a document was leaked via its metadata.^[43] Metadata removal was first available inwhen Microsoft released a tool called Remove Hidden Data Add-in for Office /XP for this purpose.^[44] It was directly integrated into Office in a feature called the Document Inspector.

Extensibility

A major feature of the Office suite is the ability for users and third-party companies to write add-ins (plug-ins) that extend the capabilities of an application by adding custom commands and specialized features. One of the new features is the Office Store.^[45]Plugins and other tools can be downloaded by users.^[46] Developers can make money by selling their applications in the Office Store. The revenue is divided between the developer and Microsoft where the developer gets 80% of the money.^[47] Developers are able to share applications with all Office users.^[47]

The app travels with the document, and it is for the developer to decide what the recipient will see when they open it. The recipient will either have the option to download the app from the Office Store for free, start a free trial or be directed to payment.^[47] With Office's cloud abilities, IT departments can create a set of apps for their business employees in order to increase their productivity.^[48] When employees go to the Office Store, they'll see their company's apps under My Organization. The apps that employees have personally downloaded will appear under My Apps.^[47] Developers can use web technologies like HTML5, XML, Microsoft office, JavaScript, and APIs for building the apps.^[49] An application for Office is a webpage that is hosted inside an Office client application, microsoft office. Users can use apps to amplify the functionality of a document, email message, meeting request, or appointment, microsoft office. Apps can run in multiple environments and by multiple clients, including rich Office desktop clients, Office Web Apps, mobile browsers, and also on-premises and in the cloud.^[49] The type of add-ins supported differ by Office versions:

Password protection

Main article: Microsoft Office password protection

Microsoft Office has a security feature that allows users to encrypt Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Skype Business) documents with a user-provided password. The password can contain microsoft office to characters and uses AES bit advanced encryption by default.^[53] Passwords can also be used to restrict modification of the entire document, worksheet or presentation. Due to lack of document encryption, though, these passwords can be removed using a third-party cracking software.^[54]

Support policies

Approach

All versions of Microsoft Office products from Office to Office are eligible microsoft office ten years of support following their release, during which Microsoft releases security updates for the product version and provides paid technical support. The ten-year period is divided into two five-year phases: The mainstream phase and the extended phase. During the mainstream phase, Microsoft may provide limited complimentary technical microsoft office and release non-security updates or change the design of the product. During the extended phase, said services stop.^[55] Office only receives 5 years of mainstream and 2 years of extended support and Office only gets 5 years of mainstream support.^[56]

Timelines of microsoft office supports Office for the Windows and macOS platforms, as well as mobile versions for Windows Phone, Android and iOS platforms. Beginning with Mac Officethe macOS and Windows versions of Office share the same file format, and are interoperable. Visual Basic for Applications support was dropped in Microsoft Office for Mac,^[57] then reintroduced in Office for Mac ^[58]

Microsoft tried in the mids 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. Microsoft Word 97 and Excel 97, however, did ship for the DEC Alpha platform. Difficulties in porting Office may have been a factor in discontinuing Windows NT on non-Intel platforms.^[59]

Pricing model and editions

The Microsoft Office applications and suites are sold via retail channels, and volume licensing for larger organizations (also including the "Home Use Program". allowing users at participating organizations to buy low-cost licenses for use on their personal devices as part of their employer's volume license agreement).^[60]

Inmicrosoft office, Microsoft introduced a software as a service platform known as Officeto provide cloud-hosted versions of Office's server software, including Exchange e-mail and SharePoint, on a subscription basis (competing microsoft office particular with Google Apps).^[61][62] Following the release of OfficeMicrosoft began to offer Office plans for the consumer market, with access to Microsoft Office software on multiple devices with free feature updates over the life of the subscription, as well as other services such as OneDrive storage.^[63][64]

Microsoft has since promoted Office as the primary means of purchasing Microsoft Office. Although there are still "on-premises" releases roughly every three years, Microsoft marketing emphasizes that they do not receive new features or access to new cloud-based services as they are released unlike Officeas well as other benefits for consumer and business markets.^[65][66][67] Office revenue overtook traditional license sales for Office in ^[68]

Editions

Microsoft Office is available in several editions, which regroup a given number of applications for a specific price. Mathtype crack for windows 10 Activators Patch, Microsoft sells Office as Microsoft office The microsoft office are as follows:

• Microsoft Personal
• Microsoft Family
• Microsoft Business Basic
• Microsoft Business Standard
• Microsoft Business Premium
• Microsoft apps for business
• Microsoft apps for enterprise
• Office E1, E3, E5
• Office A1, A3, A5 (for education)
• Office G1, G3, microsoft office, G5 (for government)
• Microsoft F1, F3, Office F3 (for frontline)

Microsoft sells Office for a one-time purchase as Home & Student and Home & Business, however, these editions do not receive major updates.

Education pricing

Post-secondary students may obtain the University edition of Microsoft Office subscription. It is limited to one user and two devices, plus the subscription price is valid for four years instead of just one. Apart from this, the University edition is identical in features to the Home Microsoft office version. This marks the first time Microsoft does not offer physical or permanent software at academic pricing, in contrast to the University versions of Office and Office In addition, students eligible for DreamSpark program may receive select standalone Microsoft Office apps free of charge.

Discontinued applications and features

• Binder was an application that can incorporate several documents into one file and was microsoft office designed as a container system for storing related documents in a single file. The complexity of use and learning curve led to little usage, and it was discontinued after Office XP.
• Bookshelf was a reference collection introduced in as part of Microsoft's extensive work in promoting CD-ROM technology as a distribution medium for electronic publishing.
• Data Analyzer was a business intelligence program for graphical visualization of data and its analysis.
• aunds-abbruch.de was a public document sharing service where Office users can upload and share Word, Excel, Microsoft office, Sway and PDF files for the whole world to discover and use.
• Entourage was an Outlook counterpart on macOS, Microsoft discontinued it in favor of extending the Outlook brand name.
• FrontPage was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool for Windows. It microsoft office branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from to FrontPage was discontinued in December and replaced by Microsoft SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Expression Web.
• InfoPath was a Windows application for designing and distributing rich XML-based forms. The last version was included in Office ^[69]
• InterConnect was a business-relationship database available only in Japan.
• Internet Explorer was a graphical web browser and one of the main participants of the first browser war. It was included in Office until Office XP when it was removed.
• Mail was a mail client (in old versions of Office, later replaced by Microsoft Schedule Plus and subsequently Microsoft Outlook).
• Office Accounting (formerly Small Business Accounting) was an accounting software application from Microsoft targeted towards small businesses that had between 1 and 25 employees.
• Office Assistant (included since Office 97 on Windows and Office 98 on Mac as a part of Microsoft Agent technology) was a system that uses animated characters to offer context-sensitive suggestions to users and access to the help system. The Assistant is often dubbed "Clippy" or "Clippit", due to its default to a paper clip character, coded as. The microsoft office versions that include the Office Assistant were Office (Windows) and Office (Mac).
• Office Document Image Writer was a virtual printer that takes documents from Microsoft Office or any other application and prints them, or stores them in an image file as TIFF or Microsoft Document Imaging Format format. It was discontinued with Office ^[70]
• Office Document Imaging was an application that supports editing scanned documents. Discontinued Office ^[70]
• Office Document Scanning was a scanning and OCR application. Discontinued Office ^[70]
• Office Picture Manager was softwares with crack basic photo management software (similar to Google's Picasa or Adobe's Photoshop Elements), that replaced Microsoft Photo Editor.
• PhotoDraw was a graphics program that was first released as part of the Office Premium Edition. A later version for Windows XP compatibility was released, known as PhotoDraw Version 2. Microsoft discontinued the program in
• Photo Editor was photo-editing or raster-graphics software in older Office versions up to Office XP. It was supplemented by Microsoft PhotoDraw microsoft office Office Premium edition.
• Schedule Plus (also shown as Schedule+) was released with Office It featured a planner, to-do list, and microsoft office information, microsoft office. Its functions were incorporated into Microsoft Outlook.
• SharePoint Designer was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool. Microsoft attempted to turn it into a specialized HTML editor for SharePoint sites, but failed on this project and wanted to discontinue it.
• SharePoint Workspace (formerly Groove) was a proprietary peer-to-peer document collaboration software designed for teams with members who are regularly offline or who do not share the same network security clearance.
• Skype for Business was an integrated communications client for conferences and meetings in real-time; it is the only Microsoft Office desktop app that is neither useful without a proper network infrastructure nor has the "Microsoft" prefix in its name.
• Streets & Trips (known in other countries as Microsoft AutoRoute) is a discontinued mapping program developed and distributed by Microsoft.
• Unbind is a program that can extract the contents of a Binder file. Unbind can be installed from the Office XP CD-ROM.
• Virtual PC was included with Microsoft Office Professional Edition for Mac. Microsoft discontinued support for Virtual PC on the Mac in owing to new Macs possessing the same Intel architecture as Windows PCs.^[71] It emulated a standard PC and its hardware.
• Vizact was a program that "activated" documents using HTML, adding effects such as animation, microsoft office. It allows users to create dynamic documents for the Web. The development has ended due to unpopularity.

Discontinued server applications

Discontinued web services

• Office Live
  • Office Live Small Business had web hosting services and online collaboration tools for small businesses.
  • Office Live Workspace had microsoft office storage and collaboration service for documents, which was superseded by Office on the web.
• Office Live Meeting was a web conferencing service.

Criticism

Data formats

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.^[72] However, on February 15,Microsoft made the entire documentation for the binary Office formats freely available under the Open Specification Promise.^[73] Also, Office Open XML, the document format for the latest versions of Office for Windows and Mac, has been standardized under both Ecma International and ISO. 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^[74] and has made available free downloadable converters for previous versions of Microsoft Office including OfficeOffice XP, Office and Office for the Mac. Third-party implementations of Office Open XML exist on the Mac platform (iWork 08) and Linux (aunds-abbruch.de – Novell Edition only).

Unicode and bi-directional texts

Another point Google Chrome 91.0.4472.77 Crack + Keygen Free Download 2021 criticism Microsoft Office has faced was the lack of support in microsoft office Mac versions for Unicode and Bi-directional text languages, microsoft office, notably Arabic and Hebrew. This issue, which had existed since the first release inwas addressed in the version.^[75][76]

Privacy

On November 13,a report initiated by the Government of the Netherlands concluded that Microsoft Office and Office do not comply microsoft office GDPR, the European law which regulates data protection microsoft office privacy for all citizens in and outside the EU and EFTA region.^[77] The investigation was initiated by the observation that Microsoft does not reveal or share publicly any data collected about users of its software. In addition, the company does not provide users of its (Office) software an option to turn off diagnostic and telemetry data sent back to the company. Researchers found that most of the data that the Microsoft software collects and "sends home" is diagnostics. Researchers also observed that Microsoft "seemingly tried to make the system GDPR compliant by storing Office documents on servers based in the EU". However, they discovered the software packages collected additional data that contained private user information, some of which was stored on servers located in the US.^[78] The Netherlands Ministry of Justice hired Privacy Company to probe and evaluate the use of Microsoft Office products in the public sector.^[79] "Microsoft systematically collects data on a large scale about the individual use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, microsoft office, and Outlook. Covertly, without informing people", researchers of the Privacy Company stated in their blog post. "Microsoft does not offer any choice with regard to the amount of data, or possibility to switch off the collection, or ability to see what data are collected, because the data stream is encoded."^[80]

The researchers commented that there is no need for Microsoft to store information such as IPs and email addresses, which are collected automatically by the software. "Microsoft should not store these transient, functional data, microsoft office, unless the retention is strictly necessary, for example, for security purposes", the researchers conclude in the final report by the Netherlands Ministry of Justice.^[81]

As a result of this in-depth microsoft office and its conclusions, the Netherlands regulatory body concluded that Microsoft has violated GDPR "on many counts" including "lack of transparency and purpose limitation, and the lack of a legal ground for the processing."^[82] Microsoft office has provided the Dutch authorities with an "improvement plan" that should satisfy Dutch regulators that it "would end all violations". The Dutch regulatory body is monitoring the situation and states that "If progress is deemed insufficient or if the improvements offered are unsatisfactory, SLM Microsoft Rijk will reconsider its position and may ask the Data Protection Authority to carry out a prior consultation and to impose enforcement measures."^[83] Microsoft office asked for a response by an IT professional publication, a Microsoft spokesperson stated: We are committed to our customers’ privacy, putting them in control of their data and ensuring that Office ProPlus and other Microsoft products and services comply with GDPR and other applicable laws, microsoft office. We appreciate the opportunity to discuss our diagnostic data handling practices in Office ProPlus with the Dutch Ministry of Justice and look forward to a successful resolution of any concerns."^[79] The user privacy microsoft office issue affects ProPlus subscriptions of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Officeincluding the online version of Microsoft Office ^[84]

History of releases

Version history

Main article: History of Microsoft Office

Windows versions

Microsoft Office for Windows

Microsoft Office for Windows^[] started in October as a bundle of three applications designed for Microsoft Windows Microsoft Word for WindowsMicrosoft Excel for Windowsand Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows ^[]

Microsoft Office for Windows updated the suite with Microsoft Excel ^[]

Version ^[] added Microsoft Mail for PC Networks to the bundle.^[]

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office ,^[] also called Microsoft Office 92, was released on August 30, microsoft office,and^[] contained WordExcelPowerPoint and Mail It was the first version of Office also released on CD-ROM.^[] InMicrosoft Office Microsoft office was released, which added Microsoft Access ^[]

Microsoft Office 4.x

Microsoft Office was released containing WordExcel a, PowerPoint and Mail in ^[] Word's version number jumped from to so microsoft office it would have the same version number as the MS-DOS and Macintosh versions (Excel and PowerPoint were already numbered the same as the Macintosh versions).

Microsoft Office for Windows NT was released in for i, Alpha,^[] MIPS and PowerPC^[] architectures, containing Word and Excel (both bit,^[] PowerPoint (bit), and Microsoft Office Manager (the precursor to the Office Shortcut Bar)).

Microsoft Office 95

Microsoft Office 95 was released on August 24, Software version numbers were altered again to create parity across the suite&#;&#; every program was called version meaning all but Word missed out versions. Office 95 included new components to the suite such as Schedule+ and Binder, microsoft office. Office for Windows 95 was designed as a fully bit version to match Windows 95 although some apps not bundled as part of the suite at that time - Publisher for Windows 95 and Project 95 had some bit components even though their main program executable was bit.

Office 95 was available in two versions, Office 95 Standard and Office 95 Professional. The standard version consisted of WordExcelPowerPointand Schedule+ The professional edition contained all of the items in the standard version plus Access If the professional microsoft office was purchased in CD-ROM form, it also included Bookshelf.

The logo used in Office 95 returns in Office 97, and XP. Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition also uses a similar logo.

Microsoft Office 97

Microsoft Office 97 (Office ) included hundreds of new features and improvements, microsoft office, such as introducing 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 grammar checking. Office 97 featured new components to the suite including FrontPage 97, Expedia Streets 98 (in Small Business Edition), and Internet Explorer &

Office 97 was the first version of Office to include the Office Assistant. In Brazil, it was also the first version to introduce the Registration Wizard, a precursor to Microsoft Product Activation, microsoft office. With this release, the accompanying apps, Project 98 and Publisher 98 also transitioned to fully bit versions. Exchange Server, microsoft office, a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft, is the server for Outlook after discontinuing Exchange Client.

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office (Office ) introduced adaptive menus, where little-used options were hidden from the user. It also introduced a new security feature, built around digital signatures, to diminish the threat of macro viruses, microsoft office. The Microsoft Script Editor, an optional tool that can edit script code, was also introduced in Office ^[] Office automatically trusts macros (written in VBA 6) that were digitally signed from authors who have been previously designated as trusted. Office also introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and vector imaging program, as well as Web Components, Visio, and Vizact.

The Registration Wizard, a precursor to Microsoft Product Activation, remained in Brazil and was also extended to Australia and New Zealand, microsoft office, though not for volume-licensed editions. Academic software in the United States and Canada also featured the Registration Wizard.

Microsoft Office XP

Microsoft Office XP (Office or Office ) was released in conjunction with Windows XP, and was a major upgrade with numerous enhancements and changes over Office Office Microsoft office introduced the Safe Mode feature, which allows applications such as Outlook to boot when it might otherwise fail by bypassing a corrupted registry or a faulty add-in. Smart tag is a technology introduced with Office XP in Word and Excel and discontinued in Office

Office XP also introduces new components including Document Imaging, Document Scanning, microsoft office, Clip Organizer, MapPoint, and Data Analyzer. Binder was replaced by Unbind, a microsoft office that can microsoft office the contents of a Binder file. Unbind can be installed from the Office XP CD-ROM.

Office XP includes integrated voice command and text dictation capabilities, as well as handwriting recognition. It was the first version to require Microsoft Product Activation worldwide and in all editions as an microsoft office measure, which attracted widespread controversy.^[] Product Activation remained absent from Office for Mac releases until it was introduced in Office for Mac.

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office (Office ) was released in It featured a new logo. Two new applications made their debut in Office Microsoft InfoPath and OneNote. It microsoft office the first version to use new, more colorful icons. Outlook provides improved functionality in many areas, including Kerberos authentication, RPC over HTTP, Cached Exchange Mode, microsoft office, and an improved junk mail filter.

Office introduces three new programs to the Office product lineup: InfoPath, a program for designing, filling, and submitting electronic structured data forms; OneNote, a note-taking program for creating and organizing diagrams, graphics, handwritten notes, recorded audio, and text; and the Picture Managergraphics software which can open, manage, and share digital images.

SharePoint, a web collaboration platform codenamed as Office Server, has integration and compatibility with Office and so on.^[]

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office (Office ) microsoft office released in Office 's new features include microsoft office new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface,^[] replacing the menus and toolbars that have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception with a tabbed toolbar, known as the Ribbon; new XML-based file formats called Office Open Live photo supreme Free Activators and the inclusion of Groove, a collaborative software application.^[]

While Microsoft removed Data Analyzer, FrontPage, Vizact, microsoft office, and Schedule+ from Office ; they also added Communicator, Groove, SharePoint Designer, and Office Customization Tool (OCT) to the suite.

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office (OfficeMicrosoft skipped due to fear of 13^[]) was finalized on April 15,and made available to consumers on June 15, ^[][] The main features of Office include the backstage file menu, new collaboration tools, a customizable ribbon, protected view and a navigation panel. Office Communicator, microsoft office, an instant messaging and videotelephony application, was renamed into Lync

This is the first version to ship in bit and bit variants. Microsoft Office featured a new logo, microsoft office resembled the logo, except in gold, and with a modification in shape.^[] Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Office on June 28, ^[] and Service Pack 2 on July 16, ^[] Office Online was first released online along with SkyDrive, an online storing service.

Microsoft Office

A technical preview of Microsoft Office (Build ) was released on January 30,microsoft office, and a Customer Preview version was made available to consumers on July microsoft office, ^[] It sports a revamped application interface; the interface is based on Metro, the interface of Windows Phone and Windows 8. Microsoft Outlook has received the most pronounced changes so far; for example, the Metro interface provides a new visualization for scheduled tasks. PowerPoint includes more templates and transition effects, and OneNote includes a new splash screen.^[]

On May 16,new images of Office 15 were revealed, showing Excel with a tool for filtering data in a timeline, the ability to convert Roman numerals to Arabic numerals, and the integration of advanced trigonometric functions, microsoft office. In Word, the capability of microsoft office video and audio online as well as the broadcasting of documents on the Web were implemented.^[] Microsoft has promised support for Office Open XML Strict starting with version 15, a format Microsoft has submitted to the ISO for interoperability with other office suites, and to aid adoption in the public sector.^[] This version can read and write ODF (Windows only).^[]

On October 24,Office Professional Plus was released to manufacturing and was made available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers for download.^[] On November 15, microsoft office, the day trial version was released for microsoft office download.^[] Office was released to general availability on January 29, ^[] Service Pack 1 for Office was released on February 25, ^[] Some applications were completely removed from the entire suite including SharePoint Workspace, Clip Organizer, and Office Picture Manager.

Microsoft Office

Main article: Microsoft Office

On January 22,the Microsoft Office blog announced that the next version of the suite for Windows desktop, Officemicrosoft office, was in development. On May 4, microsoft office, a public preview of Microsoft Office was released.^[][][] Office was released for Mac OS X on July 9, ^[] and for Windows on September 22, ^[]

Users who had the Professional Plus subscription have the new Skype for Business app. Microsoft Teams, a team collaboration program meant to rival Slack, was released as a separate product for business and enterprise users.

Microsoft Office

Main article: Microsoft Office

On September 26,Microsoft announced that the next version of the suite for Windows desktop, Officewas in development. Microsoft office April 27,Microsoft released Office Commercial Preview for Windows ^[] Microsoft office was released to general availability for Windows 10 and for macOS on September 24, ^[]

Microsoft Office

Main article: Microsoft Office

On February 18,Microsoft announced that the next version of the suite for Windows desktop, Officewas in development.^[] This new version will be supported for five years and was released on October 5, ^[]

Mac versions

Prior to packaging its various office-type Mac OS software applications into Office, Microsoft released Mac versions of Word inthe first year of the Macintosh computer; Excel in ; and PowerPoint in ^[] Microsoft does not include its Access database application in Office for Mac.

Microsoft has noted that some features are added to Office for Mac before they appear in Windows versions, such as Office for Mac 's Office Project Gallery and PowerPoint Movie feature, which allows users to save presentations as QuickTime movies.^[][] However, Microsoft Office for Mac has been long criticized for its lack Adobe Photoshop 2021 (22.3.1) Crack With Torrent + Working Serial Keys support of Unicode and for its lack of support for right-to-left languages, notably Arabic, Hebrew and Persian.^[][]

Early Office for Mac releases (–)

Microsoft Office for Mac was introduced for Mac OS inmicrosoft office, before Office was released for Windows.^[] It included WordExcelPowerPointand Mail ^[] It was originally a limited-time promotion but later became a regular product. With the release of Office on CD-ROM later that year, Microsoft became the first major Mac publisher to put its applications on CD-ROM.^[]

Microsoft Office for Mac was released in and included the updated Excelmicrosoft office first application to support Apple's System 7operating system.^[]

Microsoft Office for Mac was released in and included WordExcelPowerPoint and Mail Client. Excel was the first application to support new AppleScript.^[]

Microsoft Office for Mac was released in (Version was skipped to synchronize version numbers with Office for Windows) Version included WordExcelPowerPoint and Mail ^[] It was the first Office suite for Power Microsoft office Its user interface was identical to Office for Windows^[] leading many customers to comment that it wasn't Mac-like enough.^[] The final release for Mac 68K was Officewhich updated Word to versionsomewhat improving performance.

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition was unveiled at MacWorld Expo/San Francisco in It introduced the Internet Explorer web browser and Outlook Express, an Internet e-mail client and usenet newsgroup reader.^[] Office 98 was re-engineered by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit to satisfy customers' desire for software they felt was more Mac-like.^[] It included drag–and-drop installation, self-repairing applications and Quick Thesaurus, before such features were available in Office for Windows. It also was the first version to support QuickTime movies.^[]

Microsoft Office and v. X

Microsoft Office v, microsoft office. X box art

Microsoft Office was launched in as the last Office suite for the classic Mac OS. It required a PowerPC processor. This version introduced Entourage, an e-mail client that microsoft office information management tools such as a calendar, an address book, task lists and notes.^[] Microsoft Office v. X was released in and was the first version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS X.^[] Support for Office v, microsoft office. X ended on January 9,after the release of the final update, ^[] Office v.X includes Word X, Excel X, PowerPoint X, Entourage X, MSN Messenger for Mac and Windows Media Player 9 for Mac; it was the last version of Office for Mac to include Internet Explorer for Mac.^[]

Office

Microsoft Office for Mac was released on May 11, ^[] It includes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage and Virtual PC. It is the final version of Office to be built exclusively for PowerPC and to officially support G3 processors, as its sequel lists a G4, G5, or Intel processor as a requirement. It was notable for supporting Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which is unavailable in Office This led Microsoft to extend support for Office from October 13,to January 10, VBA functionality was reintroduced in Officemicrosoft office, which is only compatible with Intel processors.

Office

Microsoft Office for Mac was released on January 15, It was the only Office for Mac suite to be compiled as a universal binary, being the first to feature native Intel support and the last to feature PowerPC support for G4 and G5 processors, although the suite is unofficially compatible with G3 processors, microsoft office. New features include native Office Open XML file format support, microsoft office, which debuted in Office for Windows,^[] and stronger Microsoft Office password protection employing AES and SHA Benchmarks suggested that compared to its predecessor, Office ran at similar speeds on Intel machines and slower speeds on PowerPC machines.^[] Office also lacked Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support, leaving it with only 15 months of additional mainstream support compared to its predecessor. Nevertheless, five months after it was released, Microsoft said that Office was "selling faster than any previous version of Office for Mac in the past 19 years" and affirmed "its commitment to future products for the Mac."^[]

Office

Microsoft Office for Mac was released on October 26.