Evolution of MS Office Windows FOR HCI PDF

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Evolution of MS OFFICE Windows Microsoft Word for MS-DOS – Pre Windows Era 

MS Office starts officially from November 19, 1990, when Office for Windows (also called MS Office 1.0) came out for use with Windows 2.0. Before Office 1.0, the basic elements of the package were still available as separate programs but for MS-DOS.

Year 1990-Microsoft Office for Windows (Office 1.0) 

A combination of Word 1.1, Excel 2.0 and PowerPoint 2.0 released in November 1990

Year 1992 - MS Office 3.0 for Windows (Office 92 on CD-ROM) 

Contains – Word 2.0; Excel 4.0A and PowerPoint 4.0

Year 1994 – Office 4.0 for Windows 

The major overhaul was MS Word which now had a very rich interface focusing on formatting. Thus, Office 4.0 composed of the following: Word 6.0, Excel 4.0, and PowerPoint 3.0.

Year 1995 – Office 7.5 or Office 95

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The naming convention was changed to match the version numbers of each application software in the Office suite! Thus, it was Word 95, Excel 95, and Presentation 95.

Year 1996 fall – Office 97: Introduction of Office Assistant! 

The interface of Excel 97: Notice Word & Excel Icons In Windows Quick Launch Bar

Mid 1999 – Office 2000 (Better User Experience) 

The Smoother Interface here.

Mid 2001: Office XP 

With XP, Microsoft provided almost all features to users working under restricted mode on corporate networks.

Office 2003: The Most Used MS Office Version Ever

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The most used version is version 2003 with plenty of functionality and security features.

Office 2007 introduced the Ribbon Interface 

Office 2007 introduced the ribbon interface and helped you produce professionallooking documents by providing a comprehensive set of tools for creating and formatting your document in the new Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.

Office 2010 introduced Office Web Apps 

Microsoft Office 2010 let people & employees keep in touch and working effectively no matter where they were. They could use the same applications from their PCs, from a smartphone, or a Web browser.

Office 2013 comes with cloud integration 

The Evolution of MS Office continues with Office 2013 and Office 365 and makes use of cloud computing and takes it to the next level while introducing Touch.

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Office 365 Introduced in mid-2011 as a replacement to Microsoft’s cloud-based business suite. Since then, it has come a long way and has taken over standalone Office versions in colleges and businesses. It includes the web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and a mail program. Also, it offers unlimited storage on OneDrive for the subscribers.

Office 2016 

Is the latest version as of now, the version is completely optimized for mobile devices and touchscreens. As such, it does not provide many new features over Office 2013 except for a tighter cloud integration that users may or may not feel comfortable with.

Office 2019 

Microsoft Office 2019 desktop pack comes with several new improvements in its three main and popular apps: MS Word 2019, MS Excel 2019, and PowerPoint 2019. Users can now insert Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and prebuilt Images called Icons.

Microsoft 365 

Office 365 is now Microsoft 365 and it brings in extensive cloud integration. If you know about cloud computing, you know how many things are possible with this. Real-Time Collaboration on files, moving back to original files, and access to these files from anywhere are among the top benefits....