Microsoft Office is a suite of office applications developed by Microsoft, intended for various office-related tasks such as documentation, spreadsheets, presentations, and database management. The suite began development in the early 1980s, with notable releases including Microsoft Word in 1983, Excel in 1985, and PowerPoint in 1987, culminating in the bundled Office suite for Windows in 1990. Over the years, several versions of Microsoft Office have been released, enhancing its core applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

2. MS Office or Microsoft office is a collection of office
related application. Each application software serves a unique
purpose and offers specific task to its user, in the same way
MS office servers us to perform office related tasks such as
 Documentation
 Worksheet for arithmetic and Logical operations
 Creating Presentation
 Database management
 Publish related work
 Mail platforms

3. MS Office developed by Microsoft corporation of USA .
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975,
Microsoft Corporation is one of the leading developer
of Personal, Systems and applications software’s.
The development of MS Office was started early 1980s. Here is a
brief overview of the major milestones in the development of MS
Office:
1. 1983: Microsoft Word: was the first word processing program of MS
Office, was released for the IBM PC-DOS operating system.

4. 2. 1985: Microsoft Excel: a spreadsheet program, was release
for Windows .
3.1987: Microsoft PowerPoint: Microsoft acquired a company
called Forethought Inc. and renamed its presentation software
as Microsoft PowerPoint.
4.1989: Office Suite: Microsoft bundled Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint together as the Microsoft Office suite for
Macintosh or Mac OS.
5.1990: Microsoft Office for Windows: The first version of
MS Office was released for Windows, including Word, Excel,
and PowerPoint.

5. Release Date Title
August 24, 1995 Office 95
June 20, 1997 Office 97
June 7, 1999 Office 2000
May 31, 2001 Office xp
August 19, 2003 Office 2003
January 30, 2007 Office 2007
April 15, 2010 Office 2010
January 29, 2010 Office 2013
24 September 2018 Office 2019

6. MS Office Core Applications
 Microsoft Word
 Microsoft Excel
 Microsoft PowerPoint
 Microsoft OneNote
 Microsoft Outlook
 Microsoft Publisher
 Microsoft Access
MS Office includes core
applications that provide
different tools and
functionalities for
various tasks. Here are
the main applications
and their respective
tools in MS Office: