That's what I'm studying right now. It's actually an "office suite" of programs. Word is a word processor, Excel is a spreadsheet, Access is a database, PowerPoint is a presentation system (slide show for a meeting or classroom), Outlook is an email program, and Publisher is a desktop publishing program. The cool thing is they can work together so easily. You can copy and paste from one program to another, and manipulate your data in various ways in the various programs. It makes for really fun applications.
The people behind it? Not only Microsoft employees, but plenty of independent programmers where Microsoft has purchased their programs and integrated them into the Office Suite. For all the complaints about Microsoft being this huge company that crushes competitors, they provide a really flexible, powerful product.
2006-06-14 15:04:39
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