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History of Microsoft Office

History of Microsoft Office is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand History of Microsoft Office rather than just read about it. In short: This is a history of the various versions of Microsoft Office, consisting of a bundle of several different applications which changed over time. This table only includes final releases and not pre-release or beta software.

Key takeaways

History of Microsoft Office belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect History of Microsoft Office to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of History of Microsoft Office from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

This is a history of the various versions of Microsoft Office, consisting of a bundle of several different applications which changed over time. This table only includes final releases and not pre-release or beta software. It also does not list the history of the constituent standalone applications which were released much earlier starting with Word in 1983, Excel in 1985, and PowerPoint in 1987.

Office versions

Summary

Microsoft Office 95

Microsoft Office 97

Microsoft Office 2000

Microsoft Office 2000 Personal was an additional SKU, solely designed for the Japanese market, that included Word 2000, Excel 2000 and Outlook 2000. This compilation would later become widespread as Microsoft Office 2003 Basic.

Microsoft Office XP

Microsoft Office 2003

Microsoft Office 2007

1 Office Customization Tool is used to customize the installation of Office 2007 by creating a Windows Installer patch file (.MSP) and replacing the Custom Installation Wizard and Custom Deployment Wizard included in earlier versions of the Office Resource Kit that created a Windows Installer Transform (.MST).

Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2013

Remarks

Microsoft Office 2016 As with previous versions, Office 2016 is made available in several distinct editions aimed towards different markets. All traditional editions of Microsoft Office 2016 contain Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote and are licensed for use on one computer. The installation of retail channels of Office 2016 is Click-To-Run (C2R), however volume licensing channels Office 2016 are using traditional Microsoft Installer (MSI). Five traditional editions of Office 2016 were released for Windows:

Home & Student: This retail suite includes the core applications only. Home & Business: This retail suite includes the core applications and Outlook. Standard: This suite, only available through volume licensing channels, includes the core applications, as well as Outlook and Publisher. Professional: This retail suite includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher and Access. Professional Plus: This suite available through MSDN retail channels and volume licensing channels, includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher, Access and Skype for Business. The deployment of this edition has C2R for MSDN retail channels and MSI for volume licensing channels.

For a comparison chart for the new version of Office, Microsoft 365, click here. Three traditional editions of Office 2016 were released for Mac:

Mac versions

Office 98

Notes

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with History of Microsoft Office

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what History of Microsoft Office claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to History of Microsoft Office before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about History of Microsoft Office ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of History of Microsoft Office

In research: History of Microsoft Office appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses History of Microsoft Office in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: History of Microsoft Office is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics History of Microsoft, History of software, Microsoft Office, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for History of Microsoft Office outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study History of Microsoft Office in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what History of Microsoft Office means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

What is History of Microsoft Office in simple terms?

Why does History of Microsoft Office matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study History of Microsoft Office?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on History of Microsoft Office.