2. General Info. Microsoft Office is a proprietary commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of 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 Microsoft 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. According to Forrester Research, as of June 2009, some version of Microsoft Office is used in 80% of enterprises, with 64% of enterprises using Office 2007. Thecurrent versions are Office 2010 for Windows, released on June 15, 2010; and Office 2011 for Mac OS X, released October 26, 2010
3. Version history 1990 1990 1991 1992 1994 1994 1994 1995 1997 2000 2002 2003 2007 2010 2012 The Microsoft Office for Windows The Microsoft Office for Windows 1.5 The Microsoft Office for Windows 1.6 The Microsoft Office for Windows 3.0 Microsoft Office 4.0 Microsoft Office 4.2 Microsoft Office 4.3 Microsoft Office 95 Microsoft Office 97 Microsoft Office 2000 Microsoft Office XP Microsoft Office 2003 Microsoft Office 2007 Microsoft Office 2010 Microsoft Office 15
