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Microsoft Office XP (codenamed Office 10^[7]) is an office suite created and distributed by Microsoft for the Windowsoperating system. Office XP was released to manufacturing on March 5, 2001^[8] and was later made available to retail on May 31, 2001.^[1] It is the successor to Office 2000 and the predecessor of Office 2003.

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New features in Office XP include smart tags, a selection-based search feature that recognizes different types of text in a document so that users can perform additional actions; a task pane interface that consolidates popular menu bar commands on the right side of the screen to facilitate quick access to them; new document collaboration capabilities, support for MSN Groups and SharePoint; and integrated handwriting recognition and speech recognition capabilities. With Office XP, Microsoft incorporated several features to address reliability issues observed in previous versions of Office.^[9] Office XP also introduces separate Document Imaging,^[9]Document Scanning,^[9] and Clip Organizer applications.^[10] The Office Assistant (commonly known as 'Clippy'), which was introduced in Office 97 and widely reviled by users, is disabled by default in Office XP; this change was a key element of Microsoft's promotional campaign for Office XP.^[11]

Office XP is incompatible with Windows 95.^[12] Office XP is compatible with Windows NT 4.0 SP6, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP^[4] and Windows Vista.^[5] It is the last version to support Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, and Windows Me, as its successor, Office 2003, does not support these operating systems.^[13]

Office XP received mostly positive reviews upon its release, with critics praising its collaboration features, document protection and recovery functionality, and smart tags; however, the suite's handwriting recognition and speech recognition capabilities were criticized, and were mostly viewed as inferior to similar offerings from competitors. As of May 2002, over 60 million Office XP licenses were sold.^[14]

Microsoft released three service packs for Office XP during its lifetime.^[2]Mainstream support for Office XP ended on July 11, 2006 and extended support ended on July 12, 2011.^[15]

• 1History
• 2New features
  • 2.1User interface
  • 2.2File formats
  • 2.3Alternative user input

History[edit]

At a meeting with financial analysts in July 2000, Microsoft demonstrated Office XP, then known by its codename, Office 10, which included a subset of features Microsoft designed in accordance with what at the time was known as the .NET strategy, one by which it intended to provide extensive client access to various web services and features such as speech recognition.^[16] SharePoint Portal Server 2001, then codenamed Tahoe,^[17] was also in development at this time and was slated to improve collaboration for users of Office 2000 and Office 10.^[18] In August, Microsoft released Office 10 Beta 1 for product evaluation purposes.^[19][20] During this period Office 10 was characterized as an interim release between its predecessor, Office 2000 and a future version, and was planned to include new formatting options;^[20] integrated speech recognition;^[19] improved collaboration capabilities and enhanced support for web services;^[19] and a web portal complete with web parts.^[20] Beta 1 was compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 SP5, and Windows 2000.^[21]

Before the release of Office 10 Beta 2, there was speculation that Microsoft intended to rebrand the new product as 'Office 2001,'^[21] 'Office 2002,'^[21] 'Office.NET,'^[22] or 'Office XP.'^[23] The latter was shorthand for eXPerience and was positioned as a brand that would emphasize the new experiences enabled by the product. At the time, Microsoft intended to name the latest version of Visual Studio as 'Visual Studio .NET' but unnamed sources stated that the company did not desire to do the same with Office 10, as the product was only partially related to the company's .NET strategy.^[22] Microsoft ultimately decided on 'Office XP' as the final name of the product and used the same brand for Windows XP—then codenamed Whistler—which was developed concurrently.^[24] In spite of this, individual Office XP products such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word would continue to use Microsoft's year-based naming conventions and were named after the year 2002.^[22]

Office XP Beta 2 was released to 10,000 technical testers in late 2000.^[25] Beta 2 introduced several improvements to setup tools. The Custom Maintenance Wizard, for example, now allowed setup components to be modified after their installation, and the setup process of Office XP itself used a new version of Windows Installer. Microsoft also terminated the product's support for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 SP5.^[26] After the release of Beta 2, Microsoft announced a Corporate Preview Kit Program for Office XP that would allow up to 500,000 corporate customers to evaluate a Corporate Preview Beta version of the product on a total of 10 machines per copy; individual copies cost $19.95 and expired on August 31, 2001.^[25][27]

Office XP was released to manufacturing on March 5, 2001^[8] and was later made available to retail on May 31, 2001.^[1]

Service packs[edit]

Microsoft released a total of three service packs for Office XP that introduced security enhancements, stability improvements, and fixes for software bugs throughout the product's lifecycle. All service packs were made available as separate Client and Full File updates. Client updates were intended for users who installed Office XP from a CD-ROM and could be obtained from the Microsoft Office Update website or as standalone downloads, required the Office XP installation media during the installation process and could not be rolled back after they were installed. Full file updates do not require access to installation media and were intended for network administrators to deploy updates to Office XP users who installed the product from a server location;^[30][31][32] however, users could also manually install full file updates.^[33] Full file updates require Windows Installer 2.0; Office XP shipped with version 1.1.^[34] On September 25, 2001, Microsoft released Windows Installer 2.0 redistributables for Windows 9x,^[35] as well as for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.^[36] Windows Installer 2.0 shipped with Windows XP.^[37]

Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released on December 11, 2001 and included performance and security improvements, as well as stability improvements based on error reports from users. SP1 also resolved an issue that prevented documents from being saved to MSN Groups.^[30]

Service Pack 2 (SP2), released on August 21, 2002, included all previously available standalone updates; some of the updates included cumulative security patches for Excel and Word to address potentially malicious code embedded in document macros.^[29] The full file version of SP2 is cumulative—SP1 does not have to be installed—while the client version requires SP1 to be installed.^[31] Only full file updates released after SP2 can be applied directly to client installations of Office XP. Earlier updates were designed to update only administrative images and fail when applied directly to clients.^[34]

Service Pack 3 (SP3) was released on March 30, 2004 and included all previously released updates, as well as previously unreleased stability improvements based on feedback and error reports received from users. SP3 does not require any earlier service packs to be installed.^[3] However, if an Office XP client was updated from a patched administrative image, the full file version of SP3 must be installed.^[34]

New features[edit]

User interface[edit]

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Office XP has a streamlined, flatter appearance compared to previous versions of Office. According to Microsoft, this change involved 'removing visually competing elements, visually prioritizing items on a page, increasing letter spacing and word spacing for better readability, and defining foreground and background color to bring the most important elements to the front.'^[38]

Smart tags[edit]

Excel 2002 and Word 2002 introduce smart tags, commands for specific types of text including addresses, calendar dates, personal names, telephone numbers, ticker symbols, or tracking numbers in documents.^[39] A smart tag is denoted by a dotted purple underline underneath actionable text in a document; hovering over this text with the mouse cursor displays an icon that presents a list of related commands when invoked with a mouse click or the Alt+⇧ Shift+F10keyboard shortcut.^[40] A ticker symbol smart tag in Excel can present the latest stock information in a cell within a workbook, for example, while a contact name smart tag in a Word document can display options to send an e-mail message to—or schedule a meeting with—that contact. Excel and Word support extensible smart tags that allow developers and organizations to display custom commands related to specific information. The smart tags used by Word are also available in Outlook 2002 if the former is configured as the default e-mail editor.^[39]

The AutoCorrect and Paste Options commands in previous versions of Office have been updated to include smart tags that are shared among all Office XP programs. The AutoCorrect smart tag provides individual options to revert an automatic correction or to prohibit an automatic correction from occurring in the future, and also provides access to the AutoCorrect Options dialog box.^[38] It is represented as a small, blue box when the mouse cursor is positioned over corrected text.^[40] The Paste Options smart tag provides options to retain original formatting of content, change the formatting based on the currently active program, or to provide contextually specific characteristics to content after users paste it from the clipboard.^[38]

After the release of Office XP, Microsoft provided a repository for downloadable smart tags on its website.^[41] Examples of third-party companies that produced smart tags after the release of Office XP include ESPN,^[42]Expedia,^[43]FedEx,^[44] and MSNBC.^[45] Microsoft released a Euro Currency Converter smart tag when new euro coins and notes were introduced on January 1, 2002.^[46]

Task panes[edit]

Office XP introduces a task pane interface that consolidates popular menu bar commands on the right side of the screen to facilitate quick access to them.^[47] Office XP includes Startup, Search, Clipboard, and Insert Clip Art task panes,^[48] as well as task panes that are exclusive to certain programs. Word 2002, for example, includes a task pane dedicated to style and formatting options. Users can switch between open task panes through the use of back and forward buttons; a drop-down list also presents specific task panes to which users can switch.^[47]

The default Startup task pane is automatically available when users launch an Office XP program and presents individual commands to open an existing file, create a new blank file or one from a template, add a network location, or open Office Help. The Search task pane includes individual Basic and Advanced modes and allows users to query local or remote locations for files. The Basic mode allows users to perform full-text searches, while the Advanced mode provides additional file property query options.^[47] An index such as the Indexing Service can improve how quickly results are returned after a search is performed.^[49]

The Insert Clip Art task pane is available in Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and Word and provides options to search for and insert online clip art into files. Rs agarwal gk book pdf download. The Office Clipboard has been redesigned as the Clipboard task pane across all Office XP programs and can accommodate up to 24 clipboard items compared to 12 in Office 2000. Clipboard items provide a visual representation to help users distinguish different types of content.^[50] The Office Clipboard task pane opens when at least two items are copied.^[38]

Other UI changes[edit]

• A Compress Pictures button on the Picture toolbar allows users to optimize images inserted into files.^[9]
• E-mail messages sent from all Office XP programs support an optional introductory field.^[38]
• Internet Explorer automatically launches the Office XP program used to create a HTML document when users print that document.^[38]
• Microsoft account users could store their documents in private or public locations at MSN Groups.^[38]
• Office XP introduces a My Data Sources directory in My Documents that provides access to recently opened data sources.^[38]
• Security features in all Office programs have been consolidated into a single Security tab.^[38]
• The Insert Hyperlink dialog box presents a list of files and folders from the current web page folder, allowing users to navigate between open web pages.^[38]
• The Web Options dialog box allows users to create documents tailored to Internet Explorer 4, Internet Explorer 5, Internet Explorer 6, or various versions of Netscape.^[9]
• When users revert automatically corrected text in an Office document to its original spelling, the text will not correct itself again.^[9]

File formats[edit]

XML support[edit]

Access 2002 and Excel 2002 support exporting and importing XML. Users can also save Excel workbooks as XML spreadsheets.^[38]

Office Open XML Compatibility Pack[edit]

In 2006, Microsoft released a compatibility pack for Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, and Office 2003 SP1 that enables users to open, edit, and save Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Office Open XML documents introduced in Office 2007.^[51] The compatibility pack requires Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP SP1, or later versions of Windows.^[52] The update also enables compatibility with documents created in Office 2010, Office 2013, and Office 2016.^[53]

Alternative user input[edit]

Handwriting recognition[edit]

Office XP introduces handwriting recognition in all Office programs, allowing users to write with a mouse or stylus instead of entering text by typing on a keyboard.^[54] Users can insert handwritten notes into Excel, add handwritten comments to PowerPoint presentations, send handwritten e-mail messages with Outlook, or write directly into Word documents.^[55] Notes written with a handheld PC or a Pocket PC can be converted into Word documents,^[56] and handwritten content in Word documents can be converted to text.^[54] Word must be the active e-mail editor in Outlook before handwritten e-mail messages can be sent.Once installed, handwriting functionality is also available in Internet Explorer 5 and Outlook Express 5 or later. Handwriting recognition engines are available for the English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean versions of Office XP.^[57]

The downloadable Tablet Pack for Office XP provided an extension for Windows Journal to reuse notes as Outlook 2002 items and to import meeting information from Outlook 2002 into notes.^[58]

Speech recognition[edit]

Speech recognition based on Microsoft Research technology is available for all Office XP programs, allowing users to dictate text into active documents, to change document formatting, and to navigate the interface by voice. The speech recognition feature encompasses two different modes: Dictation, which transcribes spoken words into text; and Voice Command, which invokes interface features.^[59]

Speech recognition can be installed during Office XP setup or by clicking the Speech option in the Tools menu in Word 2002. When installed, it is available as a Microphone command on the Language toolbar that appears in the upper-right corner of the screen (lower-right corner in East-Asian versions of Office XP). When launched for the first time, speech recognition offers a tutorial to improve recognition accuracy, which begins by providing instructions to adjust the microphone for optimal performance.^[60] Speech recognition uses a speech profile to store information about a user's voice.^[61]

Users can configure speech recognition settings, including pronunciation sensitivity in voice command mode, accuracy and recognition response time in dictation mode, and microphone settings through the Speech control panel applet. The Regional and Language Options applet provides Language toolbar and additional settings.^[61] Speech recognition engines are available for the English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese languages.^[59] Microsoft recommended its SideWinder Game Voicechat device as a microphone to use with speech recognition.^[62]

Reliability[edit]

With Office XP, Microsoft incorporated several features to address reliability issues observed in previous versions of Office:

• Application Recovery: Users can safely restart or terminate unresponsive Office programs—and save open documents before termination—from a utility that is accessible from the Office Tools group on the Windows Start menu.^[50]
• Automatic Recovery: Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word periodically save open documents in the background so the latest revision can be opened if an error occurs; users can configure how often files are saved, discard the latest revision, overwrite a file with it, or save it as a separate file.^[50]
• Document Recovery: Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word present users with an option to immediately save open files when an error occurs before a program is closed or restarted to prevent loss of data.^[50]
• Error Reporting: Users can optionally submit error report information to Microsoft for analysis to improve Office XP. Error reporting was instrumental in providing solutions included in all three Office XP service packs to address common issues.^[3][29][30] Error reports can also be submitted to corporate departments.^[50]
• Repair and Extract: Excel and Word can automatically recognize and repair corrupt documents; users can also manually repair documents from these programs.^[50]
• Safe Mode: Office XP programs will automatically launch in Safe Mode, a diagnostic mode that allows programs to bypass the source of a problem if they are unable to start properly.^[50]

Security[edit]

Excel, PowerPoint, and Word have been updated to provide password encryption options based on CryptoAPI. Additionally, all Office XP programs provide options for users to digitally sign documents.^[38]

Installation and deployment[edit]

When upgrading from a previous version of Office, Office XP retains the user's previous configuration. Office XP can also be installed directly from an administrative image hosted on a web server via HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP.^[38] The Office Resource Kit includes various improvements to deployment functionality when compared with the Office 2000 version. A new Setup INI Customization Wizard allows administrators to customize the Office XP INIconfiguration file prior to deployment. The Custom Installation Wizard can prohibit the installation, use, or uninstallation of programs or features such as the Run from Network and Installed on First Use setup options. Finally, the Custom Maintenance Wizard has been updated to provide customization options to configure Office XP including user preferences and security settings.^[63] The Save My Settings Wizard, introduced in Office 2000 as an optional download for Microsoft account users to remotely store their Office settings to the Office Update web site,^[64] has been updated to support importing and exporting backups to local storage or to a network share.^[65]

In an effort to curtail software piracy, Microsoft incorporated product activation technology into all versions of Office XP to prohibit users from installing a single copy of the software in a manner that violates the end-user license agreement (EULA). The EULA allows a single user to install one copy each on a primary device and a portable device such as a laptop. Users who make substantial hardware changes to an Office XP device may need to reactivate the software through the Internet or by telephone. Product activation does not require personally identifiable information.^[66]

Office XP introduced an optional subscription-based activation model that allowed consumers to annually license the product and receive incremental updates at a reduced price when compared with the cost of a full retail version. Microsoft originally intended to deliver the activation model to United States customers after the retail availability of Office XP on May 31, 2001, but later decided to make it available to consumers in 'a few select locations' instead, citing a more cautious delivery approach.^[67] In spite of this, Microsoft distributed optical media and a single subscription to authorized U.S. retail partners who attended teamMicrosoft Live! events.^[68] As part of a pilot experiment, consumers in Australia, France, and New Zealand could purchase a subscription for Office XP starting in May 2001; the worldwide release of the activation model was contingent on the success of the pilot experiment, but Microsoft terminated support for subscriptions in 2002 based on feedback and research that demonstrated it was not well understood by consumers.^[69]Office 365—released over a decade after Office XP—has since reintroduced subscription-based licenses to consumers.^[70]

User assistance[edit]

A new 'Ask a Question' feature appears in the top-right corner of all Office XP programs and allows users to type natural language questions and receive answers without opening the Office Assistant ('Clippy') or Office Help. Additionally, Office Help has been updated to aggregate and display content from the Internet in response to a query. The Office Assistant is now disabled by default and only appears when Help is activated.^[9]

New application-specific features[edit]

New features in Word 2002^[71]

• A Clear Formatting option which, while retaining hyperlinks, reverts all changes made to selected text
• A Drawing Canvas allows content such as WordArt to be aligned to a fixed position
• For Indian languages, proofing tools were introduced for Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.^[72]
• Non-real-time collaborative editing, allowing multiple users across a file share or server to edit a document and merge changes without requiring it to be unlocked; when a user is finished editing and closes the shared document, other users can view his or her edits and merge their own changes
• Multiple portions of text can be selected simultaneously in a document
• Styles for bulleted lists and tables
• Support for filtered web pages, which allows users to the reduce the size of a HTML document by removing XML tags and Word-specific formatting
• Support for watermarks in documents
• The General tab of the Properties dialog box now displays the file format of an open document
• Word count toolbar

New features in Excel 2002^[73]

• Border drawing with grid, line color, style, and weight options
• Colors can now be added to tabs in a worksheet
• Drawings and pictures can now be inserted directly as headers or footers
• Function argument information in tooltips
• If a cell contains a large number that its associated column is too narrow to display ('###'), Excel displays the entire number in a tooltip
• Numbers can be sorted as text to prevent unexpected sorting results that occur in mixed lists of numbers and text
• Phrasing of Excel alerts has been revised to be concise
• Users can evaluate formulas on a sequential basis to determine how Excel arrived at a calculation result
• With a Watch function, users can monitor the results of multiple cells in a separate window even when working on a different sheet or workbook

New features in Outlook 2002^[74]

• AutoComplete for email addresses
• Colored categories for calendar items
• Group schedules
• Hyperlink support in email subject lines
• Native support for Outlook.com
• Improved search functionality including the ability to stop a search and resume it later
  • Incremental search and content indexing is available if Windows Search is installed^[75]
• Lunar calendar support
• MSN Messenger integration
• Performance improvements^[76]
• Preview pane improvements including the ability to open hyperlinks; respond to meeting requests; and display email properties without opening a message
• Reminder window that consolidates all reminders for appointments and tasks in a single view
• Retention policies for documents and email
• Security improvements including the automatic blocking of potentially unsafe attachments and of programmatic access to information in Outlook
  • SP1 introduced the ability to view all non-digitally signed email or unencrypted email as plain text^[77]
  • SP2 allows users to—through the Registry—prevent the addition of new email accounts or the creation of new Personal Storage Tables^[78]
  • SP3 updates the object model guard security for applications that access messages and other items^[79]
• Smart tags when Word is configured as the default email editor

New features in PowerPoint 2002^[80]

• GDI+accelerated graphic rendering, effects, and printing
• Images in slides can now be flipped and rotated
• Multiple slide masters in presentations
• Native support for diagrams such as cycle, pyramid, and Venn diagrams
• Presentation broadcast improvements
• Presenter tools that allow users to view details on upcoming bullets or slides, and speaker notes, and to navigate to any slide without these actions being visible to the audience; this feature requires a multi-monitor configuration
• Smart tags for Apply Automatic Layout and AutoFit features, the latter of which has been updated to automatically resize fonts to fit slides as users type and to remove the minimum font size limitation
• Support for additional paper sizes for printing
• Thumbnails of slides are now displayed within a left-hand pane of the interface
• Users can now snap objects to a grid and display drawing guides

New features in Access 2002^[81]

• A new file format that enables faster access and data processing for large databases; the Access 2000 format is used by default
• A new Stored Procedure Designer allows users to create or modify simple Microsoft SQL Server stored procedures
• Batch updates for Access projects
• Conversion error logging, which creates a table with information about each error that occurs during Access 95, Access 97, or Access 2000 database conversion
• Enhanced international support including the ability to change the left-to-right reading directionality
• Support for multiple Undo and Redo operations
• Support for PivotCharts and PivotTables

New features in Publisher 2002^[82]

• Customizable toolbars
• Font schemes that can be shared with Word
• Header and footer support
• Multiple publications can now be open simultaneously
• Print preview
• Support for OfficeArt
• The new Format dialog box combines the Colors and Lines, Layout, Picture, Size, Text Box, and Web tabs
• Users can export objects, pages, or groups of objects and pages as images
• Users can open, edit, and save publications as HTML
• Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support
• Word documents can now be imported directly to Publisher

New features in FrontPage 2002^[83]

• Automatic web content from third-parties including Expedia and MSNBC
• Internet forums and online surveys can be integrated with websites
• HTML 4 features including button and fieldsets in forms, inline frames, and language attributes
• Tabs to navigate between different pages within the interface
• Tags in HTML pages can be automatically reformatted to be XML-compliant
• Themes from previous FrontPage versions have been updated
• Unicode support
• Users can now publish websites in the background and can continue to make edits during the publishing process
• Usage analysis reports in daily, weekly, or monthly increments allow users to determine how often a web page is accessed and the URL from which this access originates; reports can be exported to Excel or as HTML

Removed features[edit]

• 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.^[84]
• Office XP Small Business Edition removes the Small Business Customer Manager during an upgrade from Office 2000; the feature is not removed during an upgrade to the Professional edition. Users who desire to retain the Small Business Customer Manager must apply the Small Business Tools 2000 patch from the second Office 2000 CD-ROM before upgrading to the Small Business Edition of Office XP.^[85]
• Microsoft Map was removed from Excel 2002.^[86]
• In Excel 2002, several add-ins are no longer available. Some, but not all, are integrated into Excel 2002 and thus made redundant.^[87][88]
• The .DBF files for Samples.xls and two Japanese templates are removed in Excel 2002.^[87][88]
• Microsoft Query is no longer available.^[87][88]
• In PowerPoint 2002, the Custom Soundtracks add-in is no longer supported and the Routing Recipient option on the Send To menu was removed.^[87][88]
• A number of features were removed in Outlook 2002.^[87][88]
• Find Fast is deprecated in favor of Windows 2000/XP Indexing service.

Editions[edit]

The component products were packaged together in various suites. Some of these editions were available as retail packages in either full or upgrade versions, others as full OEM versions for inclusion with new PCs, and still others as volume license versions that required no activation. All editions provided the core components of Word, Excel, and Outlook, and all editions except the Small Business edition provided PowerPoint.^[89]

System requirements[edit]

Reception[edit]

Microsoft Office XP received mixed to positive reviews after its release. CNET praised the new collaboration and data recovery features, and stated that Office XP offered a 'host of incremental improvements' over its predecessor, Office 2000, but ultimately concluded that 'most enhancements and additions are better suited for groups than individuals.' Criticism was also directed at the productivity suite's strict hard disk space requirement and its incompatibility with Windows 95. Nevertheless, CNET awarded Office XP a 4-star editors' rating.^[12]PC Magazine rated Office XP 4 stars out of 5 and praised the product's emphasis on user control, particularly in regards to customization options for features introduced in previous versions, and regarded it as 'one of the few Microsoft upgrades that offers almost no pains with its significant gains.'^[91]The New York Times stated that Office XP 'isn't so much a list of new features as it is an improved arrangement of old ones,' but offered praise for the new collaboration features, which were regarded as a 'huge leap' from previous versions.^[92]Paul Thurrott regarded Office XP as 'a must-have upgrade for writers such as myself,' though he also stated that, without the new smart tags feature, it 'has the feel of a minor upgrade with numerous useful, but small, changes.'^[9]

While most assessments of Office XP were positive, the speech recognition feature was frequently criticized due to its inaccuracy and lack of advanced functionality. CNET regarded it as 'especially lame' because of its inability to recognize text editing commands such as 'select the sentence' and because it required users to manually switch between command and dictation modes.^[12]PC Magazine stated that both the speech recognition and handwriting recognition features were not 'reliable enough for general use.'^[93] However, in a later assessment, PC Magazine stated that the 'speech recognition is reasonably accurate, but there are very few commands for editing and correcting text' and recommended Dragon NaturallySpeaking, IBM ViaVoice, or Voice Xpress for dictation.^[94]The New York Times speculated that Microsoft had little to no confidence in the feature, as it is not installed by default and no microphone is included with Office XP; however, it concluded that it was 'not bad for a freebie, especially if you would rather get the first draft down quickly and clean up the recognition errors later.'^[92] Paul Thurrott stated that 'the voice recognition is so bad it's almost not even worth discussing,' concluding that it 'is sort of a joke' when compared with mature products such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking.^[9]

See also[edit]

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Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketing term for an office suite (bundled set of productivity applications), the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, OLE data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand. On July 10, 2012, Softpedia reported that Office is used by over a billion people worldwide.^[6]

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. Office in a browser, previously known as Office Online, is a version of the software that runs within a web browser, while Microsoft also maintains Office apps for Android and iOS.

Since Office 2013, Microsoft has promoted Office 365 as the primary means of obtaining Microsoft Office: it allows use of the software and other services on a subscription business model, and users receive free feature updates to the software for the lifetime of the subscription, including new features and cloud computing integration that are not necessarily included in the 'on-premises' releases of Office sold under conventional license terms. In 2017, revenue from Office 365 overtook conventional license sales.

The current on-premises, desktop version of Office is Office 2019, released on September 24, 2018.^[7]

• 1Components
• 7Support policies
• 9Pricing model and editions
• 10Discontinued applications and features
• 13Version history
  • 13.1Windows versions
  • 13.2Mac versions

Components[edit]

Desktop applications[edit]

Unless stated otherwise, desktop applications are available for Windows and macOS.

• Microsoft Word: 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 1983, was for the MS-DOS operating system and introduced the Computer mouse to more users. Word 1.0 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 1985. Word for Mac was the first graphical version of Microsoft Word. Initially, it implemented the proprietary .doc format as its primary format. Word 2007, 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 2007.^[8]
• Microsoft Excel: a spreadsheet editor that originally competed with the dominant Lotus 1-2-3, and eventually outsold it. Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Mac OS in 1985, and the first Windows version (numbered 2.05 to line up with the Mac) in November 1987.
• Microsoft PowerPoint: 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 Outlook (not to be confused with Outlook Express, Outlook.com or Outlook on the web): 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 1990s, but only for use with Microsoft Exchange Server. In Office 2001, it introduced an alternative application with a slightly different feature set called Microsoft Entourage. It reintroduced Outlook in Office 2011, replacing Entourage.^[9]
• Microsoft OneNote: 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 of Microsoft Office 2003 editions. However, OneNote eventually became a core component of Microsoft Office; with the release of Microsoft Office 2013, OneNote was included in all Microsoft Office offerings. OneNote is also available as a web app on Office Online, 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 Publisher: a desktop publishing app for Windows mostly used for designing brochures, labels, calendars, greeting cards, business cards, newsletters, web site, and postcards.
• Microsoft Access: a database management system for Windows that combines the relationalMicrosoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software development tools. Microsoft Access stores data in its own format based on the Access Jet Database Engine. It can also import or link directly to data stored in other applications and databases.^[10]
• Skype for Business: 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.
• Microsoft Project: a project management app for Windows to keep track of events and to create network charts and Gantt charts, not bundled in any Office suite.
• Microsoft Teams: a platform that combines workplace chat, meetings, notes, and attachments. Microsoft announced that Teams would eventually replace Skype for Business.
• Microsoft Visio: a diagram and flowcharting app for Windows not bundled in any Office suite.

Mobile apps[edit]

• Office Lens: 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 Remote: Turns the mobile device into a remote control for desktop versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Server applications[edit]

• Microsoft SharePoint: collaboration server.
  • Microsoft Project Server: project management server
• Skype for Business Server: a real-time communications server for instant messaging and video-conferencing.
• Microsoft Exchange Server: a mail server and calendaring server.

Web services[edit]

• Microsoft Office Online
  • Word Online: Free web app version of Microsoft Word.
  • Excel Online: Free web app version of Microsoft Excel.
  • PowerPoint Online: Free web app version of Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • OneNote Online: Free web app version of Microsoft OneNote.
  • Outlook.com: Free webmail with a user interface similar to Microsoft Outlook and Mail on Windows 10.
  • Docs.com: 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. On June 9, 2017, Microsoft announced it would shut down Docs.com on December 15, 2017 in favor of the acquired SlideShare with its LinkedIn purchase.
  • OneDrive: A file hosting service that allows users to sync files and later access them from a web browser or mobile device.
  • Office Sway: A presentation web app released in October 2014. It also has a native app for iOS and Windows 10.
• Delve: Allows Office 365 users to search and manage their emails, meetings, contacts, social networks and documents stored on OneDrive or Sites in Office 365.
• Microsoft Forms: An online survey creator, available for Office 365 Education subscribers.
• Outlook on the web: Similar to Outlook.com but more comprehensive and available only through Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange Server offerings.
• Microsoft Planner: A planning application available on the Microsoft Office 365 platform.
• Office 365 Video: A video sharing service for enterprise users with an Office 365 Academic or Enterprise license.
• Microsoft Bookings: An appointment booking application on the Microsoft Office 365 platform.

Office Mobile[edit]

Office Mobile includes the scaled-down and touch-optimised versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Other Office applications such as OneNote, Lync and Outlook are available as standalone apps.^[11] It is supported on Android, iOS, Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile.

Office Mobile enables users to save and access documents on OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint. Additionally, the Windows Phone version also allows users to save files locally on the device. According to Microsoft, Office Mobile for iPhone and Android are 'very similar' to each other, whereas the Windows Phone version provides a 'richer, more integrated experience'.^[12]

Office Mobile for iPhone was released on June 14, 2013 in the United States.^[13] Support for 135 markets and 27 languages was rolled out over a few days.^[14] It requires iOS 8 or later.^[15] Although the app also works on iPad devices, excluding the first generation, it is designed for a small screen.^[13] Office Mobile was released for Android phones on July 31, 2013 in the United States. Support for 117 markets and 33 languages was added gradually over several weeks.^[12] It is supported on Android 4.0 and later.^[16] Office Mobile for both iPhone and Android, available for free from the App Store and Google Play Store respectively, initially required a qualifying Office 365 subscription to activate, but in March 2014, with the release of Office for iPad, the apps were updated making them fully free for home use, though a subscription is still required for business use.^{[17][18][19][20]}

On March 27, 2014, Microsoft released Word, Excel and PowerPoint for iPad. On November 6, 2014, Microsoft released updated versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for iPhone.^[21]

On January 29, 2015, Microsoft released Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets. On June 24, 2015, Microsoft released updated versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint for Android phones.^[22] The Android version is also supported on certain Chrome OS machines.^[23]

In January 2015, Microsoft unveiled updated universal app versions of the Office applications for Windows 10 devices—including PCs, tablets and smartphones—that are based upon the previously released Android and iOS apps.^[24][25]

Office Mobile is or was also available, though no longer supported, on Windows Mobile, Windows Phone and Symbian. There is also Office RT, a touch-optimized version of the standard desktop Office suite, pre-installed on Windows RT.^[26]

Common features[edit]

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 2003, 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. For example, the toolbar, colored buttons and the gray-colored 3D look of Office 4.3 were added to Windows 95, and the ribbon, introduced in Office 2007, has been incorporated into several programs bundled with Windows 7 and later. In 2012, Office 2013 replicated the flat, box-like design of Windows 8.

Users of Microsoft Office may access external data via connection-specifications saved in Office Data Connection (.odc) files.^[27]

Both Windows and Office use service packs to update software. Office had non-cumulative service releases, which were discontinued after Office 2000 Service Release 1.

Past versions of Office often contained Easter eggs. For example, Excel 97 contained a reasonably functional flight-simulator. Office XP and later do not have any Easter eggs, in compliance with Trustworthy Computing guidelines.

File formats and metadata[edit]

Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007 used proprietary file formats based on the OLE Compound File Binary Format.^[28] This forced users who share data to adopt the same software platform.^[29] In 2008, 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.^[30][31] Previously, Microsoft had supplied such documentation freely but only on request.^[32]

Starting with Office 2007, the default file format has been a version of Office Open XML, though different than 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^[33] and has made available free downloadable converters for previous versions of Microsoft Office including Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000^[34] and Office 2004 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 OpenOffice.org 3.0). In addition, Office 2010, Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, and Office 2016 for Mac supports the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for opening and saving documents - only the old ODF 1.0 (2006 ISO/IEC standard) is supported, not the 1.2 version (2015 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.^[35] Metadata removal was first available in 2004, when Microsoft released a tool called Remove Hidden Data Add-in for Office 2003/XP for this purpose.^[36] It was directly integrated into Office 2007 in a feature called the Document Inspector.

Extensibility[edit]

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.^[37]Plugins and other tools can be downloaded by users.^[38] 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.^[39] Developers are able to share applications with all Office users.^[39]

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.^[39]With Office's cloud abilities, IT department can create a set of apps for their business employees in order to increase their productivity.^[40] 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.^[39] Developers can use web technologies like HTML5, XML, CSS3, JavaScript, and APIs for building the apps.^[41]An application for Office is a webpage that is hosted inside an Office client application. User 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.^[41] The type of add-ins supported differ by Office versions:

• Office 97 onwards (standard Windows DLLs i.e. Word WLLs and Excel XLLs)
• Office 2000 onwards (COM add-ins)^[42]
• Office XP onwards (COM/OLE Automation add-ins)^[43]
• Office 2003 onwards (Managed code add-ins – VSTO solutions)^[44]

Password protection[edit]

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 255 characters and uses AES 128-bit advanced encryption by default.^[45] 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.^[46]

Support policies[edit]

Approach[edit]

All versions of Microsoft Office products before Microsoft Office 2019 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.^[47] Office 2019 only receives 5 years of mainstream and 2 years of extended support.^[48]

Timelines of support[edit]

• (Spent) standard support
• (Remaining) standard support
• (Spent) extended support
• (Remaining) extended support

• (Spent) standard support
• (Remaining) standard support
• (Spent) extended support
• (Remaining) extended support

Platforms[edit]

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 4.2, 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 2008 for Mac,^[49] then reintroduced in Office for Mac 2011.^[50]

Microsoft tried in the mid-1990s 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.^[51]

Pricing model and editions[edit]

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).^[52]

In 2010, Microsoft introduced a software as a service platform known as Office 365, 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).^[53][54] Following the release of Office 2013, Microsoft began to offer Office 365 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.^[55][56]

Microsoft has since promoted Office 365 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 365, as well as other benefits for consumer and business markets.^[57][58][59] Office 365 revenue overtook traditional license sales for Office in 2017.^[60]

Retail editions[edit]

Microsoft Office is available in several editions, which regroup a given number of applications for a specific price. Current retail editions are grouped by category:

• Home: Home, Personal, Home & Student.
• Business: Business, Business Premium, Business Essentials.

Education pricing[edit]

Post-secondary students may obtain the University edition of Microsoft Office 365 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 2010 and Office 2011. In addition, students eligible for DreamSpark program may receive select standalone Microsoft Office apps free of charge.

Discontinued applications and features[edit]

• Microsoft Binder: Incorporates 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.
• Microsoft FrontPage: a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool for Windows. It was branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2003. FrontPage was discontinued in December 2006 and replaced by Microsoft SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Expression Web.
• Microsoft InfoPath: Windows application for designing and distributing rich XML-based forms. Last version was included in Office 2013.^[61]
• Microsoft Mail: Mail client (in old versions of Office, later replaced by Microsoft Schedule Plus and subsequently Microsoft Outlook).
• Microsoft Office Document Image Writer: 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 2010.^[62]
• Microsoft Office Document Imaging: an application that supports editing scanned documents. Discontinued with Office 2010.^[62]
• Microsoft Office Document Scanning: a scanning and OCR application. Discontinued with Office 2010.^[62]
• Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000: A graphics program that was first released as part of the Office 2000 Premium Edition. A later version for Windows XP compatibility was released, known as PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2. Microsoft discontinued the program in 2001.
• Microsoft Photo Editor: Photo-editing/raster-graphics software in older Office versions up to Office XP. It was supplemented by Microsoft PhotoDraw in Office 2000 Premium edition.
• Microsoft Schedule Plus: Released with Office 95. It featured a planner, to-do list, and contact information. Its functions were incorporated into Microsoft Outlook.
• Microsoft Virtual PC: Included with Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2004 for Mac. Microsoft discontinued support for Virtual PC on the Mac in 2006 owing to new Macs possessing the same Intel architecture as Windows PCs.^[63] It emulated a standard PC and its hardware.
• Microsoft Vizact 2000: A program that 'activated' documents using HTML, adding effects such as animation. It allows users to create dynamic documents for the Web. Development has ended due to unpopularity.
• Microsoft Data Analyzer 2002: A business intelligence program for graphical visualization of data and its analysis.
• Office Assistant, included since Office 97 (Windows) and Office 98 (Mac) as a part of Microsoft Agent technology, is 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 CLIPPIT.ACS. The latest versions that include the Office Assistant were Office 2003 (Windows) and Office 2004 (Mac).
• Microsoft SharePoint Workspace (formerly known as Microsoft Office Groove): 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.
• Microsoft SharePoint Designer: Initially a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool, Microsoft attempted to turn it into a specialized HTML editor for SharePoint sites, failed and discontinued it.
• Microsoft Office InterConnect: business-relationship database available only in Japan
• Microsoft Office Picture Manager: basic photo management software (similar to Google's Picasa or Adobe's Photoshop Elements), replaced Microsoft Photo Editor
• Microsoft Entourage: An Outlook counterpart on macOS, Microsoft discontinued it in favor of extending the Outlook brand name.

Discontinued server applications[edit]

• Microsoft Office Forms Server: Lets users use any browser to access and fill InfoPath forms. Office Forms Server is a standalone server installation of InfoPath Forms Services.
• Microsoft Office Groove Server: Centrally managing all deployments of Microsoft Office Groove in the enterprise
• Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server: Allows creation of a project portfolio, including workflows, hosted centrally
• Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server: Allows customers to monitor, analyze, and plan their business

Discontinued web services[edit]

• Office Live
  • Office Live Small Business: Web hosting services and online collaboration tools for small businesses
  • Office Live Workspace: Online storage and collaboration service for documents, superseded by Office Online
• Office Live Meeting: Web conferencing service

Criticism[edit]

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.^[64] However, on February 15, 2008, Microsoft made the entire documentation for the binary Office formats freely available under the Open Specification Promise.^[65] 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^[66] and has made available free downloadable converters for previous versions of Microsoft Office including Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000 and Office 2004 for the Mac. Third-party implementations of Office Open XML exist on the Mac platform (iWork 08) and Linux (OpenOffice.org 2.3 – Novell Edition only).

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 1989, was addressed in the 2016 version.^[67][68]

On 13 November 2018, a report initiated by the Government of the Netherlands concluded that Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 365 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.^[69] 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.^[70] The Netherlands Ministry of Justice hired Privacy Company to probe and evaluate the use of Microsoft Office products in the public sector.^[71] '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 blogpost. '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.'^[72]

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.^[73]

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.'^[74] 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.'^[75] 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.'^[71]The user privacy data issue affects ProPlus subscriptions of Microsoft Office 2016 and Microsoft Office 365, including the online version of Microsoft Office 365.^[76]

History of releases[edit]

Version history[edit]

Windows versions[edit]

Microsoft Office for Windows[edit]

Microsoft Office for Windows^[110] started in October 1990 as a bundle of three applications designed for Microsoft Windows 3.0: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1, Microsoft Excel for Windows 2.0, and Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 2.0.^[111]

Microsoft Office for Windows 1.5 updated the suite with Microsoft Excel 3.0.^[112]

Version 1.6^[113] added Microsoft Mail for PC Networks 2.1 to the bundle.^[114]

Microsoft Office 3.0[edit]

Microsoft Office 3.0,^[115] also called Microsoft Office 92, was released on August 30, 1992 and^[116] contained Word 2.0, Excel 4.0, PowerPoint 3.0 and Mail 3.0. It was the first version of Office also released on CD-ROM.^[117] In 1993, The Microsoft Office Professional^[118] was released, which added Microsoft Access 1.1.^[119]

Microsoft Office 4.x[edit]

Microsoft Office 4.0 was released containing Word 6.0, Excel 4.0a, PowerPoint 3.0 and Mail in 1993.^[120] Word's version number jumped from 2.0 to 6.0 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 4.2 for Windows NT was released in 1994 for i386, Alpha,^[121] MIPS and PowerPC^[122] architectures, containing Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 (both 32-bit,^[123] PowerPoint 4.0 (16-bit), and Microsoft Office Manager 4.2 (the precursor to the Office Shortcut Bar)).

Microsoft Office 95 and 97[edit]

Microsoft Office 95 was released on August 24, 1995. Software version numbers were altered again to create parity across the suite—every program was called version 7.0 meaning all but Word missed out versions. It was designed as a fully 32-bit version to match Windows 95. Office 95 was available in two versions, Office 95 Standard and Office 95 Professional. The standard version consisted of Word 7.0, Excel 7.0, PowerPoint 7.0, and Schedule+ 7.0. The professional edition contained all of the items in the standard version plus Microsoft Access 7.0. If the professional version was purchased in CD-ROM form, it also included Bookshelf.^{[citation needed]}

The logo used in Office 95 returns in Office 97, 2000 and XP. Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition also uses a similar logo.

Microsoft Office 97 (Office 8.0) 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 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 2000 to 2003[edit]

Microsoft Office 2000 (Office 9.0) 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. Office 2000 automatically trusts macros (written in VBA 6) that were digitally signed from authors who have been previously designated as trusted. 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 (Office 10.0 or Office 2002) was released in conjunction with Windows XP, and was a major upgrade with numerous enhancements and changes over Office 2000. 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 2010. 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.^[124] Product Activation remained absent from Office for Mac releases until it was introduced in Office 2011 for Mac.

Microsoft Office 2003 (Office 11.0) was released in 2003. It featured a new logo. Two new applications made their debut in Office 2003: Microsoft InfoPath and OneNote. It is the first version to use new, more colorful icons. Outlook 2003 provides improved functionality in many areas, including Kerberos authentication, RPC over HTTP, Cached Exchange Mode, and an improved junk mail filter.

Microsoft Office 2007[edit]

Microsoft Office 2007 (Office 12.0) was released in 2007. Office 2007's new features include a new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface,^[125] 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.^[126]

Microsoft Office 2010[edit]

Microsoft Office 2010 (Office 14.0, because Microsoft skipped 13.0^[127]) was finalized on April 15, 2010 and made available to consumers on June 15, 2010.^[128][129] The main features of Office 2010 include the backstage file menu, new collaboration tools, a customizable ribbon, protected view and a navigation panel. This is the first version to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit variants. Microsoft Office 2010 featured a new logo, which resembled the 2007 logo, except in gold, and with a modification in shape.^[130]

Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 on June 28, 2011^[131] and Service Pack 2 on July 16, 2013.^[132]

Microsoft Office 2013[edit]

A technical preview of Microsoft Office 2013 (Build 15.0.3612.1010) was released on January 30, 2012, and a Customer Preview version was made available to consumers on July 16, 2012.^[133] 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.^[134] On May 16, 2011, 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.^[135] 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.^[136] This version can read and write ODF 1.2 (Windows only).^[137]

On October 24, 2012, Office 2013 Professional Plus was released to manufacturing and was made available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers for download.^[138] On November 15, 2012, the 60-day trial version was released for public download.^[139] Office 2013 was released to general availability on January 29, 2013.^[140]

Service Pack 1 for Office 2013 was released on February 25, 2014.^[141]

Microsoft Office 2016[edit]

On January 22, 2015, the Microsoft Office blog announced that the next version of the suite for Windows desktop, Office 2016, was in development. On May 4, 2015, a public preview of Microsoft Office 2016 was released.^{[24][25][142]} Office 2016 was released for Mac OS X on July 9, 2015^[143] and for Windows on September 22, 2015.^[144]

Microsoft Office 2019[edit]

On September 26, 2017, Microsoft announced that the next version of the suite for Windows desktop, Office 2019, was in development. On April 27, 2018, Microsoft released Office 2019 Commercial Preview for Windows 10.^[145] It was released to general availability for Windows 10 and for macOS on September 24, 2018.^[146]

Mac versions[edit]

Prior to packaging its various office-type Mac OS software applications into Office, Microsoft released Mac versions of Word 1.0 in 1984, the first year of the Macintosh computer; Excel 1.0 in 1985; and PowerPoint 1.0 in 1987.^[147] 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 2001's Office Project Gallery and PowerPoint Movie feature, which allows users to save presentations as QuickTime movies.^[148][149] 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.^[150][151]

Early Office for Mac releases (1989–1994)[edit]

Microsoft Office for Mac was introduced for Mac OS in 1989, before Office was released for Windows.^[152] It included Word 4.0, Excel 2.2, PowerPoint 2.01, and Mail 1.37.^[153] 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.^[154]

Microsoft Office 1.5 for Mac was released in 1991 and included the updated Excel 3.0, the first application to support Apple's System 7operating system.^[147]

Microsoft Office 3.0 for Mac was released in 1992 and included Word 5.0, Excel 4.0, PowerPoint 3.0 and Mail Client. Excel 4.0 was the first application to support new AppleScript.^[147]

Microsoft Office 4.2 for Mac was released in 1994. (Version 4.0 was skipped to synchronize version numbers with Office for Windows) Version 4.2 included Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0 and Mail 3.2.^[155] It was the first Office suite for Power Macintosh.^[147] Its user interface was identical to Office 4.2 for Windows^[156] leading many customers to comment that it wasn't Mac-like enough.^[148] The final release for Mac 68K was Office 4.2.1, which updated Word to version 6.0.1, somewhat improving performance.

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition[edit]

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition was unveiled at MacWorld Expo/San Francisco in 1998. It introduced the Internet Explorer 4.0 web browser and Outlook Express, an Internet e-mail client and usenet newsgroup reader.^[157] Office 98 was re-engineered by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit to satisfy customers' desire for software they felt was more Mac-like.^[148] 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.^[148]

Microsoft Office 2001 and v. X[edit]

Microsoft Office 2001 was launched in 2000 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.^[149]

Microsoft Office v. X was released in 2001 and was the first version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS X.^[158] Support for Office v. X ended on January 9, 2007 after the release of the final update, 10.1.9^[159] 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.^[160]

Office 2004[edit]

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac was released on May 11, 2004.^[161] 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 2008. This led Microsoft to extend support for Office 2004 from October 13, 2009 to January 10, 2012. VBA functionality was reintroduced in Office 2011, which is only compatible with Intel processors.

Office 2000 Standard Iso Download Software

Office 2008[edit]

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac was released on January 15, 2008. 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 2007 for Windows,^[147] and stronger Microsoft Office password protection employing AES-128 and SHA-1. Benchmarks suggested that compared to its predecessor, Office 2008 ran at similar speeds on Intel machines and slower speeds on PowerPC machines.^[162] Office 2008 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 2008 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.'^[163]

Office 2011[edit]

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 was released on October 26, 2010,.^[50] It is the first version of Office for Mac to be compiled exclusively for Intel processors, dropping support for the PowerPC architecture. It features an OS X version of Outlook to replace the Entourage email client. This version of Outlook is intended to make the OS X version of Office work better with Microsoft's Exchange server and with those using Office for Windows.^[164] Office 2011 includes a Mac-based Ribbon similar to Office for Windows.

OneNote and Outlook release (2014)[edit]

Microsoft OneNote for Mac was released on March 17, 2014. It marks the company's first release of the note-taking software on the Mac. It is available as a free download to all users of the Mac App Store in OS X Mavericks.^[165]

Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac debuted on October 31, 2014. It requires a paid Office 365 subscription, meaning that traditional Office 2011 retail or volume licenses cannot activate this version of Outlook. On that day, Microsoft confirmed that it would release the next version of Office for Mac in late 2015.^[166]

Despite dropping support for older versions of OS X and only keeping support for 64-bit-only versions of OS X, these versions of OneNote and Outlook are 32-bit applications like their predecessors.

Office 2016[edit]

The first Preview version of Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was released on March 5, 2015.^[167] On July 9, 2015, Microsoft released the final version of Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. It was immediately made available for Office 365 subscribers with either a Home, Personal, Business, Business Premium, E3 or ProPlus subscription. A non-Office 365 edition of Office 2016 was made available as a one-time purchase option on September 22, 2015.^[144]

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External links[edit]

• Microsoft Office at Curlie