Versions for iOS and Android operating systems have also been developed as users' need change. It is not only available as software you install on the desktop it also comes as SaaS in the form of Office 365. Over a billion people now use Office around the world.
OneNote was added to bring a virtual notebook Publisher, a simple desktop publishing program Project, a project management tool and Visio, a flowchart and diagram application. Mail was beefed up, given a personal information manager and called Outlook. Other Office applications have been developed and added to Office over the years. Database Microsoft Access was launched in 1993 as part of Office Professional 3.0. Just after Office 1.0 was released, a basic email client called Microsoft Mail was added. With Word, Excel and PowerPoint together under the Office banner, soon came other applications. Lotus was slow to bring 1-2-3 to Windows, giving Microsoft a head start. The first version of Excel was launched for the Mac on September 30, 1985, and the first Windows version was 2.05 in November 1987. While popular on computers running CP/M, Lotus 1-2-3 ruled on MS-DOS. Part of this was because Word was more mouse-centric that WordPerfect (which was more keyboard-centric).īefore Excel there was a spreadsheet package created by Microsoft called Multiplan. It wasn't until Windows 3.0 came out in 1990 that Word became a commercial success, eclipsing rival word processor WordPerfect (which never recovered). Word 1.0 was launched in October 1983 or Xenix and MS-DOS. The first version of Word was developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie, former Xerox programmers hired by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1981.
Prior to that, Word and Excel existed as separate programs. That was for the Mac, the Windows version would come a year later. It was 1989 before these would come together as Microsoft Office 1.0. The core applications that made up the first version of Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) existed as separate applications as far back as the early eighties.
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