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Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft.

It was first announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas.

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 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.

On 10 July 2012, Softpedia reported that Office is used by over a billion people worldwide.

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program currently developed by Microsoft, for use on both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems.

PowerPoint, initially named "Presenter", was created by Forethought Inc..

Microsoft's version of PowerPoint was officially launched on May 22, 1990, as a part of the Microsoft Office suite.

PowerPoint is useful for helping develop the slide-based presentation format and is currently one of the most commonly used slide-based presentation programs available.

Microsoft has also released the PowerPoint mobile application for use on Apple and Android mobile operating systems.

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite.

Productivity software (sometimes called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software dedicated to producing information, such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital paintings, electronic music and digital video.

Its names arose from the fact that it increases productivity, especially of individual office workers, from typists to knowledge workers, although its scope is now wider than that.

s, which brought word processing, spreadsheet, and relational database programs to the desktop in the 1980s, are the core example of productivity software.

They revolutionized the office with the magnitude of the productivity increase they brought as compared with the pre-1980s office environments of typewriters, paper filing, and handwritten lists and ledgers.

Some 78% of "middle-skill" occupations (those that call for more than a high school diploma but less than a bachelor's degree) now require the use of productivity software.

In the 2010s, productivity software has become even more consumerized than it already was, as computing becomes ever more integrated into daily personal life.

Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft.

It was first released on October 25, 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems.

Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T Unix PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989), Microsoft Windows (1989), SCO Unix (1994), and macOS (2001).

Commercial versions of Word are licensed as a standalone product or as a component of Microsoft Office, Windows RT or the discontinued Microsoft Works suite.

Microsoft Word Viewer and Office Online are freeware editions of Word with limited features.