MS Word is a word processing program first released in 1981 that was developed based on ideas from the Bravo graphical writing program, which Microsoft acquired. The current web-based version is Office 365 while the software version is Word 2019. Word can display common image formats like JPEG and GIF as well as SVG vector images since 2017. Microsoft Access is a database management system included in Microsoft Office, while Word is primarily used for writing documents and was initially launched in 1983.