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Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a discontinued 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.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.

Membership requirements are given in Article 3 of the ISO Statutes.

A diagram showing how the user interacts with application software on a typical desktop computer.

The application software layer interfaces with the operating system, which in turn communicates with the hardware.

The arrows indicate information flow.

Microsoft Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft.

Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry.

For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for servers, and Windows IoT for embedded systems.

Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone.

A software license is a legal instrument (usually by way of contract law, with or without printed material) governing the use or redistribution of software.

Under United States copyright law, all software is copyright protected, in both source code and object code forms, unless that software was developed by the United States Government, in which case it cannot be copyrighted.

Authors of copyrighted software can donate their software to the public domain, in which case it is also not covered by copyright and, as a result, cannot be licensed.