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Microsoft Office

Suite of office programs produced by microsoft

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 was being used by over a billion people worldwide.

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 macOS operating 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 2013, Microsoft has promoted Office 365 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 2017, revenue from Office 365 overtook conventional license sales. Microsoft also rebranded most of their standard Office 365 editions into Microsoft 365 to emphasize their current inclusion of products and services.

The current on-premises, desktop version of Office is Office 2021, released on October 5, 2021.

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USA TODAY
September 23, 2021
USA TODAY
You don't always want to pay for expensive software. There are free alternatives that work just like the popular ones everyone else uses.
Lucas Matney
September 21, 2021
TechCrunch
As companies continue to delay their returns to the office and find temporary remote work policies becoming permanent, the startups building tooling for remote work-first cultures are finding a seemingly endless supply of customers. "Companies are finding the shift to remote work is not a one-time aberration due to Covid," Almanac CEO Adam Nathan tells [...]
July 27, 2021
WebWire
HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) today released its latest global Threat Insights Report, providing analysis of real-world cybersecurity attacks and vulnerabilities. The research shows a significant increase in the frequency and sophistication of cybercrime activity, including a 65% rise in the use of hacking tools downloaded from underground forums and filesharing websites from H2 2020 to H1 2021., , , , The researchers noted hacking tools in wide circulation were surprisingly capable. For example, one...
June 9, 2021
The Indian Express
Cybersecurity firm Check Point Research has urged Microsoft Office users to update their software immediately to fix four security flaws.
Christine Billau
May 19, 2021
phys.org
The younger generation of workers, although raised with and on technology, are not as technology savvy as the older generations believe.
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