How long has Microsoft Office been around?

Answer 1

Office made its first appearance in the early-1990s, and was initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications that were previously marketed and sold separately. The main selling point was that buying the bundle was substantially cheaper than buying each of the individual applications on their own. The first version of Office contained Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Additionally, a "Pro" version of Office included Microsoft Access and Schedule Plus. Over the years the Office applications have grown substantially closer together from a technical standpoint, sharing features such as a common spell checker, OLE data integration, and the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software.

The current versions are Office 2003 for Windows, released November 13, 2003, and Office 2004 for Macintosh, released May 11, 2004. Office 2007, the next version for Windows, was announced on February 16, 2006 and is planned for release by the end of the year. It features a radically different user interface and a new XML-based primary file format.

As of 2006, Office is the most popular office suite on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems and considered to be the de facto standard for word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. It competes with other commercial software Office suites from IBM and Corel, as well as free open-source alternatives, such as OpenOffice.org.

Answer 2

The original Microsoft Office came out in 1988 and was a seven diskette package made to run on Windows 3.0 Interestingly enough it will still ooad on systems up through Windows 2000

Answer 3

Since 1995 or so. It came out around the same time Windows 95 came out. The oldest version I have seen personally is Office 97.

Answer 4

Sorry I don't know about this

Answer 5

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