Core apps and services
• Microsoft Word is a word processor included in Microsoft Office and some editions of the now-discontinued Microsoft Works. … See more

Office on the web is a free lightweight web version of Microsoft Office and primarily includes three web applications: Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The offering also includes Outlook.com, OneNote and OneDrive which are accessible through a unified app … See more

A major feature of the Office suite is the ability for users and third-party companies to write add-ins (plug-ins) that extend the capabilities of an application by adding custom commands … See more

Approach
All versions of Microsoft Office products from Office 2000 to Office 2016 are eligible for ten years of support following their release, during which … See more

Most versions of Microsoft Office (including Office 97 and later) use their own widget set and do not exactly match the native operating system. … See more

Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007 used proprietary file formats based on the OLE Compound File Binary Format. This forced users who share data to adopt the same software platform. In … See more

Microsoft Office has a security feature that allows users to encrypt Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Skype Business) documents with a user-provided password. The … See more