The Microsoft Office suite for the windows operating system was launched first in 1990 and started to form the way we (the windows OS (operating system) users) were using computerized office applications either for our office needs or for home use. The office suite was giving us a range of tools that enabled us to fulfill any of our needs, from writing documents, letters using the Microsoft WORD, e-mails using the Microsoft OUTLOOK,  making complicated calculations using the Microsoft EXCEL, making presentations using the easy tools of the Microsoft POWERPOINT. Those basic applications have created the source of the Microsoft office suite.

Those Microsoft Office suite tools where having easy to use ways of creating our letters, forms, presentations etc… by using special designs, many font options, special characters, you could change the way the text was presented, there where design toolbars, that eased the way we could easily change and design our documents. All of the office suite where designed almost the same, in the basics of the text format changes, while every single application had its own suitable toolbars, that was matching that specific application’s needs.

The office suites were improving as time passed, as the demand for other application tools has risen. The additional office tools where the OUTLOOK, ACCESS (A client database), Spell-checker functions for all of the office applications, PUBLISHER, ONE NOTE, INFO PATH, VISIO, PROJECT, SHARE POINT DESIGNER, those additional applications has covered better the need of the different office purposes and needs.

Microsoft has lately developed an office suite “OFFICE 2008” for the Macintosh (MAC OS X) computer and operating systems. This office suite was including the basic core programs that were on the Office 2004 for MAC that includes Entourage, Excel, Word and PowerPoint. The Office 2008 supports the new Office Open XML format, which is the default format that this suite uses as the XML formats have become a common format as our main tools have migrated to be used by a browser (Internet Browser).

We all enjoy the excellent applications of the Microsoft office suite, those tools make us more efficient, they enable us to contact each other, share their tools and information from one to the other. They are more flexible and suitable for our modern age, and for the way we share and synchronize our information with different applications and devices like hand-helds, and mobile phones. We can all enjoy those excellent tools and be more creative.

Microsoft !, what does this name say to you? Anyone who uses computers has to have heard about Microsoft, this is the company the entered the graphical operating systems, that shaped the way we work. The first famous graphical operating system was of APPLE, they have created the Macintosh as a computer for graphic designers. The Macintosh was attended to the graphic designers and it wasn’t cheap, only those who could effort it was enjoying a graphical operating system that enabled the graphic design to become reachable.

Microsoft was the one who developed a graphical operating system that will become a software for all. They have designed an operating system that was cost-effective and affordable by the common people, home users and enabled everyone to gain a graphical environment, that enabled the use of a mouse, dragging and doing operating at a move of a mouse. Before the graphical age, people where typing hundreds and thousands of lines of code to get a simple operation working. Behind the simple copy & paste, we are used to doing with the right click of the mouse, where lines of code to tell the computer where the source file is, how to make the copy, and to where to copy the file.

Since that first step into a revolution in technology, Microsoft has developed many tools, improved its operating systems making them more usable, more effective. They developed the computerized office, using their office packages, that shaped the way we do our business, writing our letters on Microsoft word, doing complicated calculations and statistical charts and diagrams using Microsoft excel, doing presentations on the Microsoft Power-Point, etc… Those software applications have shaped our computerized office tools and became the most common tools being used by computer users.