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Microsoft Office

This article is about the original perpetually-licenced suite created by Microsoft. For the current subscription-licenced suite colloquially known as "Microsoft Office", see Microsoft 365.
Microsoft Office
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseOctober 1, 1990 (1990-10-01)[1]
Stable release(s) [±]
Microsoft 365 (Windows)2312 (Build 17126.20132)[2] / January 9, 2024 (2024-01-09)
Microsoft 365 (Mac)16.80 (Build 23121017) / December 12, 2023 (2023-12-12)[3]
One-time purchase (Retail)2021 Version 2311 (Build 17029.20108)[4] / December 12, 2023 (2023-12-12)[5]
One-time purchase (LTSC)2021 Version 2108 (Build 14332.20615) / December 12, 2023 (2023-12-12)[4]
Preview release(s) [±]
Written inC++ (back-end)[6]
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, macOS
SuccessorMicrosoft 365
Standard(s)Office Open XML (ISO/IEC 29500)
Available in102 languages[7]
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
TypeOffice suite
LicenseTrialware, volume licensing or SaaS
Websiteoffice.com
Microsoft Office for Mobile
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseApril 19, 2000 (2000-04-19)
Stable release
17.0 / October 2021 (2021-10)
Operating systemWindows 10,[8][9][10][11] Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone, iOS, iPadOS, Android,[12] ChromeOS[13]
PlatformSmartphones and Tablet computers[12]
TypeProductivity software
LicenseProprietary software:[12]
  • Windows 10 Mobile and Windows Phone: Built-in
  • Others: Freeware, with shareware features
Websitewww.office.com Edit this on Wikidata
Microsoft Office for Mac
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseAugust 1, 1989 (1989-08-01)
Stable release
Microsoft Office 2021
Written inC++ (back-end), Objective-C (API/UI)[6]
Operating systemmacOS
Classic Mac OS (discontinued)
Available in16 languages[14]
List of languages
English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish
TypeOffice suite
LicenseProprietary commercial software (retail, volume licensing, SaaS)
Websitewww.office.com Edit this on Wikidata

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, 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).[15]

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 as "Microsoft 365" to reflect their inclusion of features and services beyond the core Microsoft Office suite.

In October 2022, Microsoft announced that it was to phase out the Microsoft Office brand in favor of "Microsoft 365" by January 2023, the name continuing to be used for legacy product offerings.[16][17] However, Microsoft reversed this stance with the release of an Office 2024 preview build in November 2023.[18][19]

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  14. ^ "Office for Mac 2016 in 16 languages". Microsoft. March 5, 2015. Archived from the original on September 27, 2015. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
  15. ^ "What Is Included In Microsoft 365 (Office 365)? - The Complete List | IT MANIACS". August 19, 2020. Archived from the original on January 29, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  16. ^ Mearian, Lucas (October 13, 2022). "Office to be rebranded Microsoft 365". Computerworld. IDG Publications. Archived from the original on October 13, 2022.
  17. ^ Cunningham, Andrew (October 13, 2022). "32 years in, Microsoft has decided to rebrand 'Microsoft Office'". Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on October 13, 2022.
  18. ^ Hazarika, Skanda (November 8, 2023). "Exclusive: Microsoft Office 2024 is coming next year, and you can try the preview now". XDA Developers. Archived from the original on November 8, 2023. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  19. ^ Sen, Sayan (November 7, 2023). "Microsoft might just have confirmed Windows (12) release alongside leaked Office 2024 images". Archived from the original on November 7, 2023.

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