First of all my sincere thanks to Microsoft Corporation and William Henry "Bill" Gates III.
Now here is the question why Microsoft released Microsoft office in the global market
Obviously, primarily it would be for the business purpose. Other than this there might be so many reasons/factors which may influenced Microsoft to release/publish this Microsoft office to global market.
One of the main factor/reason that Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Office Package into Market is as follows.
First we should know what is Package and Application:-
Package : Package is a common requirement to all the audience/users
Application: Application is a specific requirement which is a specific to Organization(s)/Individuals/Clients
Initially in the 1990's decade all the applications are DOS based i.e. Character User Interface(CUI) means that at a time only one application can be executed.
Examples for Character User Interface Applications are:
Word Processor(Word Star), Spreadsheet(Lotus-123), DBMS(dbaseIII+), etc
Main Drawback of these CUI application(s) is switching from one application to another i.e. If we are working with word star file for text processing or etc., and if we need comparison table list figures from lotus-123 file then we have to quit the word star application and switch to lotus-123 file vice versa.
May be innovative thought or common requirement or etc given by either Developer or Tester or Product Owner or Common Man
Microsoft developers merged all the dos based applications(mentioned above) into one package called as "Microsoft Office" and also included additional concept of Mail service in the form "Microsoft Outlook" as a whole its a Graphical User Interface (GUI) windows. Microsoft Corporation Released first version of Microsoft Office-97 on November 19, 1996.
Microsoft Office - 97 contains the following:
Microsoft Word - 97, Microsoft Excel - 97, Microsoft PowerPoint - 97, Microsoft Access - 97, Microsoft outlook - 97, (new version of Microsoft having additional concepts.
Since 1996 Microsoft Released different versions of Microsoft Office:
Microsoft Office - 97
Microsoft Office - 2000
Microsoft Office - XP/2002
Microsoft Office - 2003
Microsoft Office - 2007
Microsoft Office - 2010 {MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Info Path Designer,
Info Path Filer, OneNote, Outlook,Publisher,
SharePoint Workspace & Microsoft Office Tools(Digital Certificate for
VBA Projects,Clip Organizer,Language Preferences, Upload Center and
Picture Manager)}
Microsoft Office - 2013 {Removed some features}
Microsoft Office - 2016
Now MS Excel itself is a Database. All organisations irrespective of small or big are depended on Microsoft Office Package for Publishing the Reports,etc.
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