In 2011, Office 365 adopted the cloud computing infrastructure, that allowed Microsoft office to gain a prestigious position in the market. Microsoft office has come a long way from its initial release in November 1990. It is a family of server software that is developed by the globally recognized multinational technology company, Microsoft. The computing industry has come far from competing with other rivals, the most significant of them being WordPerfect and Lotus.

Office is developed in several versions and the release of theses versions in the market have not been consistent. They are all targeting towards various end users and computing environment. The new cloud version of the Office business software suite of 2011 includes various application. The most common applications are Word, PowerPoint and Excel, among others. However, before the release of the first version, the applications were separate and did not come under the same service of Microsoft Office. Now, from the initial release to the stable release of the Office version, Microsoft has packaged the project together under the item “The Microsoft Office 1.0” for the operating system Macintosh (MAC).

Version History (From 1990 – 1999)

The history of releases of Microsoft Office on the Windows Operating system are provided as:

·       Microsoft Office 1.0 November 1990

·       Microsoft Office 3.0 August 1992

·       Microsoft Office 4.0 January 1994

·       Microsoft Office 95 (7.0) August 1995

·       Microsoft Office 97 (8.0) November 1996

·       Microsoft Office 2000 (9.0) June 1999

·       Microsoft Office XP (10.0) May 2001

·       Microsoft Office 2003 (11.0) November 2003

·       Microsoft Office 2007 (12.0) January 2007

·       Microsoft Office 2010 (14.0) June 2010

·       Microsoft Office 2013 (15.0) January 2013

·       Microsoft Office 2016 (16.0) September 2015

·       Microsoft Office 2019 (16.0) June 2019

Microsoft Office was quick to gain popularity after its initial release in the market and stood a good chance at competing against the most recognized workstation applications. These workstation applications are provided by solitary programing organizations, therefore giving them the head start at rising to prominence. These organizations already recognized the Microsoft Windows as an optimal operating system, as their PCs were controlled by them. This gave Microsoft Office an upper hand at becoming more prominent in its domain. Microsoft office is more engaging and interactive than its’ initial competitors as it offered various interactive factors.

Conclusion

Softpedia reported that billions of people across the world use Microsoft Office, and today, many of which have Office 2019 kaufen (bought). It has been criticized by the experts for using propriety file formats. Open standards tend to be more convenient as it does not require the users to share data into adopting the same software. It can be hope that the problem is resolved in the upcoming Microsoft Office versions. Besides that, there have been privacy concerns and lack of support in the Mac versions for Unicode and Bi-lateral text. Mobile versions have too been a major breakthrough for the technical company which allows users the convenience of using Office (Mobile).