Microsoft Office 2003

Microsoft Office 2003 is a productivity suite written and distributed by Microsoft for their Windows operating system. Released on October 21, 2003, it was the successor to Office XP and the predecessor to Office 2007.

Overview
A new Office logo as part of a rebranding effort by Microsoft,
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as well as two new applications, made

their debut in Office 2003: InfoPath and OneNote. OneNote is a note-taking and organizing application for text, handwritten notes or diagrams, recorded audio and graphics. Office 2003 is the first version to use Windows XP style icons and colors. Office 2003 runs only on recent NT-based versions of Windows (it does not supportWindows 98, Windows Me or Windows NT 4.0).

Features
The core applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access have only minor improvements, however Outlook 2003 received a significant "facelift" and improved functionality in many areas, including better email and calendar sharing and information display, search folders, colored flags, Kerberos authentication, RPC over HTTP, andCached Exchange mode. Another key benefit of Outlook 2003 is the improved junk mailfilter. Tablet and pen support was introduced in the productivity applications. Word 2003introduced a reading layout view, document comparison, better change-tracking and annotation/reviewing, a Research Task Pane, voice comments and an XML-based format among other features. Excel 2003 introduced list commands, some statistical functions and XML data import, analysis and transformation/document customization features. Access 2003introduced a backup command, the ability to view object dependencies, error checking in forms and reports among other features. Office 2003 features improvements to smart tags such as smart tag Lists, which are defined in XML, by using regular expressions and an extended type library.
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Smart tag recognizers were added

to PowerPoint and Access. FrontPage 2003 introduced conditional formatting,Find and Replace for HTML elements, new tools for creating and formatting tables and cells, dynamic templates (Dreamweaver), Flashsupport, WebDAV and SharePoint publishing among other features. Publisher 2003 introduced a Generic Color PostScript printer driver for commercial printing.
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Information Rights

Management capabilities were introduced in document productivity applications to limit access to a set of

users and/or restrict types of actions that users could perform. Support for managed code add-ins as VSTO solutions was introduced. Office 2003 is the last version of Office to include several features such as fully customizable toolbars and menus for all of its applications, the Office Assistant, the ability to slipstream service packs into the original setup files, Office Web Components, Save My Settings Wizard, allowing users to choose whether to keep a locally cached copy of installation source files and several utility resource kit tools. It is also the last Office version to support Windows 2000. A new picture organizer with basic editing features, called Microsoft Office Picture Managerreplaced Microsoft Photo Editor. Because WinHelp has been deprecated, context-sensitive help (What's This help) is removed in Office 2003.
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Only basic clipart and templates were included on the disc media, with most content hosted online and downloadable from within the Office application. Microsoft advertised Office Online as a major Office 2003 feature "outside the box".
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Office Online provides how-to articles, tips, training courses, templates,

clip art, stock photos and media and downloads (including Microsoft and third-party extensibility add-ins for Microsoft Office programs). The last cumulative update for Office 2003, Service Pack 3 resolves several compatibility and stability issues with Windows Vista and later operating systems. Mainstream support for Office 2003 application ended in April 2009 and extended support ends in April 2014.

Enterprise features
Office 2003 features broad XML integration (designing customized XML schemas, importing and transforming XML data) throughout resulting in a far more data-centric model (instead of a documentbased one). The MSXML 5 library was introduced specifically for Office's XML integration. Office 2003 also has tight SharePoint integration to facilitate data exchange, collaborated workflow and publishing. InfoPath was introduced for collecting data in XML-based forms and templates based on information from databases.

Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office System) is aWindows version of the Microsoft Office System, Microsoft's productivity suite. Formerly known as Office 12 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006
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and made

available to retail customers on January 30, 2007. These are, respectively, the same dates Windows Vista was released to volume licensing and retail customers. Office 2007 contains a number of new features, the most notable of which is the entirely new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface
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(initially referred to as theRibbon User Interface), replacing the menus and toolbars which

have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception with a tabbed toolbar, known as the Ribbon. Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or higher, Windows Vista or Windows 7.
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Office 2007 is the last version of Microsoft Office which is

officially supported on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The 'Ribbon User Interface' is a task-oriented Graphical User Interface (GUI). It features a central menu button, widely known as the 'Office Button'. The Ribbon Interface has been improved in Microsoft Office 2010. Office 2007 also includes new applications and server-side tools. Chief among these is Groove, a collaboration and communication suite for smaller businesses, which was originally developed by Groove Networksbefore being acquired by Microsoft in 2005. Also included is Office SharePoint Server 2007, a major revision to the server platform for Office applications, which supports "Excel Services", a clientserver architecture for supporting Excel workbooks that are shared in real time between multiple machines, and are also viewable and editable through a web page. Microsoft FrontPage has been removed from the Office suite entirely. It has been replaced by Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, which is aimed towards development of SharePoint portals. Its designeroriented counterpart Microsoft Expression Web is targeted for general web development. However, neither application has been included in Office 2007. Speech recognition and handwriting recognition are now part of Windows Vista. Speech and ink components have been removed from Office 2007.
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Handwriting and speech recognition work with

Office 2007 only on Windows Vista or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. However, XP users can use an earlier version of Office to use speech recognition.
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According to Forrester Research, as of May 2010, Microsoft Office 2007 is used in 81% of enterprises it surveyed (its sample comprising 115 North American and European enterprise and SMB decision makers).
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Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 (also called Office 2010 and Office 14 ) is a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows, and the successor to Microsoft Office 2007. Office 2010 includes extended file format support, 2010
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user interface updates,

and a changed user experience.

A 64-bit version of Office

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is available, although not for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.

On April 15, 2010, Office 2010 was released to manufacturing. The suite became available for retail and online purchase on June 15, 2010. volume license editions.
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Office 2010 is the first version to require product activation for

Office 2010 marks the debut of free online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, which work in the web browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome andSafari, but not Opera. Office Starter 2010, a new edition of Office, replaced the low-end home productivity software, Microsoft Works. Microsoft's update to its mobile productivity suite, Office Mobile 2010, will also be released for Windows Phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7. In Office 2010, every application features the ribbon, including Outlook, OneNote,Publisher, InfoPath, SharePoint Workspace (previously known as Groove), and the new Office Web Apps. As of July 2011, more than 100 million licenses to Office 2010 have been sold.
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History and development

Development started in 2007 while Microsoft was finishing work on Office 12, released as Microsoft Office 2007. The version number 13 was skipped because of the fear of the number 13.
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It was previously

thought that Office 2010 (then called Office 14) would ship in the first half of 2009.

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On January 10, 2009, screenshots of an Office 2010 alpha build were leaked by a tester. On April 15, 2009, Microsoft confirmed that Office 2010 would be released in the first half of 2010. They announced on May 12, 2009, at a Tech Ed event, a trial version of the 64-bit edition. Preview 1 (Version: 14.0.4006.1010) was leaked on May 15, 2009.
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The Technical

An internal post-beta build was leaked on July 12, 2009. This was newer than the official preview build and included a "Limestone" internal test application. Worldwide Partner Conference 2009. On July 14, 2009, Microsoft started to send out invitations on Microsoft Connect to test an official preview build of Office 2010.
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On July 13 Microsoft announced Office 2010 at its

On August 30, 2009, the beta build 4417 was leaked on the internet via torrents.

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The public beta has been available to subscribers of TechNet, MSDN and Microsoft Connect users as of November 16, 2009.
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On November 18, 2009, the beta was officially released to the general public at
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the Microsoft Office Beta website, which was originally launched by Microsoft on November 11, 2009 to provide screenshots of the new office suite. expired on October 31, 2010.
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Office 2010 Beta was a free, fully functional version and

In an effort to help customers and partners with deployment of Office 2010, Microsoft launched an Office 2010 application compatibility program with tools and guidance available for download.
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On February 5,

2010, the official release candidate build 4734.1000 was available to Connect and MSDN testers. It was leaked to torrent sites. A few days after, the RTM Escrow build was leaked.

Microsoft announced the RTM on April 15, 2010 and that the final version was to have speech technologies for use with text to speech inMicrosoft OneNote, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Word. Office 2010 was to be originally released to business customers on May 12, 2010.
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Business customers with Software Assurance were able to get it since April 27, 2010 and other
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Volume Licensing Customers were able to get it since May 1.

MSDN and TechNet subscribers have

been able to download the RTM version since April 22, 2010. The RTM version number was 14.0.4760.1000. On June 15, 2010, Office 2010 was released to retail customers. On November 17, 2010, Microsoft sent out invitations to a select number of testers at the Microsoft Connect portal to test a beta build of Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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The final version was released

to the public on June 28, 2011 with a version number of 14.0.6023.1000.

New features and improvements

Office 2010 is more "role-based" than previous versions.
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There are features tailored to employees in

"roles such as research and development professionals, sales people, and human resources." In itsInternet implementation, Office 2010 incorporates features of SharePoint Server and borrows from "Web 2.0" ideas.
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Microsoft Office 2010 includes updated support for ISO/IEC 29500:2008, the International Standard version of Office Open XML (OOXML) file format.
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Office 2010 provides read support for ECMA-376,

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read/write support for ISO/IEC 29500 Transitional, and read support for ISO/IEC 29500 Strict.
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In its

pre-release (beta) form, however, Office 2010 only supported the Transitional variant, and not the Strict. The intent of the ISO/IEC is to allow the removal of the Transitional variant from the ISO/IEC
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compliant version of the OOXML standard. (ODF) 1.1, which is an OASIS standard.
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Microsoft Office 2010 supports OpenDocument Format

New features also include a built-in screen capture tool, a background removal tool, a protected document mode, new SmartArt templates and author permissions. The 2007 "Office Button" was replaced with a menu button that leads to a full-window file menu, known as Backstage View, giving easy access to task-centered functions such as printing and sharing. A notable accessibilityregression from 2007 is that the menu button scores worse with the Fitts's law accessibility calculation than previous versions. A modified Ribbon interface is present in all Office applications, including Office Outlook, Visio, OneNote, Project, and Publisher. Office applications also have functional jumplists in Windows 7, which would allow easy access to recent items and tasks relevant to the application.
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Features of Office 2010 include:

Ribbon interface and Backstage View across all applications Background Removal Tool Letter Styling The Word 2007 Equation editor is common to all applications, replacing Microsoft Equation Editor 3.0 New SmartArt templates New text and image editing effects Screen Capturing and Clipping tools Live collaboration functions Jumplists in Windows 7 New animations and transitions in PowerPoint 2010 View Side by Side/Synchronous Scrolling in Word 2010

A new feature in Microsoft Office 2010 is Outlook Social Connector, which allows users to connect to and receive updates from their social network inside Microsoft Outlook. When users view their emails a name, picture, and title is available for the person they are contacting. Upcoming appointments can also be viewed with this new feature and users can request friends. Outlook Social Connector currently supports Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Windows Live Messenger.
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The Volume edition can be activated using a Multiple Activation Key (MAK) which is limited by the number of times a machine can activate when connected to Microsoft's servers, Management Server (KMS) which requires activation every 180 days.
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or using a Key

Removed features
The following features are removed from Microsoft Office 2010. Removed from the entire suite

Microsoft Office Document Imaging application Microsoft Office Document Scanning application Office Startup Assistant (Osa.exe) Office Diagnostics tool Support for MSXML version 5
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Research and Reference pane for Internet Explorer

Features removed from Microsoft Word Smart Tag auto-recognition Person Name smart tag AutoSummary feature Support for Word Add-in Libraries (WLL)
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Features removed from Microsoft Access Access Calendar ActiveX control Replication Conflict Viewer Data access pages
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Features removed from Microsoft Outlook ANSI offline Outlook data files (.ost) for Exchange synchronization Calendar rebasing tool DAV connectivity for HTTP account types Exchange 2000 connectivity Exchange Message Security feature support Postmarks
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Features removed from Microsoft PowerPoint Macro recorder Save as Web Page feature
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Features removed from Microsoft Publisher The ability to create new Web Publications
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Editions

Trial Version
The Office 2010 Trial
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has an option to download the local install, however the default trial installs an

App-V image like Office Starter 2010. The Applicatons Virtualization installer will create a Launcher and Office 2010 will run from a virtual drive letter "Q:" rather than installed in "drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14". This drive letter is not visible in Windows Explorer. Many programs that rely on Windows apppath variable or program location (like Outlook autodiscover using CNAME record) will fail. [edit]Starter

Edition

Office Starter 2010 is an ad-supported product which includes Microsoft Word Starter 2010 and Microsoft Excel Starter 2010. These are reduced-functionality versions for viewing, editing, and creating documents. Office Starter 2010 is only available to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) for preloading on Windows PCs and is intended to replace Microsoft Works. It is only compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7.
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The advertisements are displayed in the lower right area of the task

pane. It also includes PowerPoint Viewer 2010, to view and print PowerPoint slides and shows. Users who have Office Starter preinstalled are allowed to load it on a USB drive and run it temporarily on any computer to which the USB drive is connected.
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Office Starter 2010 is available to OEMs for pre-loading on new computers as part of the Office 2010 OEM Pre-installation Kit (OPK). It installs as a virtual application using Microsoft App-V application virtualization technology
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and can therefore co-exist with full editions of Office. Office Starter 2010 omits

several features available only in the full paid version of Microsoft Office. Specifically, it lacks the following features :

Customizable quick access toolbar buttons in both programs SmartArt Math and equation editing Full screen reading view in both programs, custom views in Excel Starter Reference features (Citation, Bibliography etc.) Tracked changes and comments Compare and combining documents Document permissions and protection Automatic table of contents and table of figures or authorities Macros Add-ins Any additional custom commands not exposed in the ribbon Bookmarks

Cross references Footnotes and endnotes Captions and index Signature line and digital signatures AutoText Content controls and objects Building Blocks Organizer Language packs to change the user interface Built-in sharing via fax recipient or saving to SharePoint PivotTables and PivotCharts in Excel Starter Slicers in Excel Starter Connections to external data, data validation rules, consolidated data and data tables in Excel Starter Error checking, calculation steps and circular references in Excel Starter Modifications to column and row headings in Excel Starter Ability to toggle row groupings, panes and workbook windows in Excel Starter

Office Web Apps

Main article: Office Web Apps Microsoft now offers a free web-based version of its Office productivity suite, known as Office Web Apps, that started shortly before Office 2010 was released to retail stores.
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Office Web Apps include online

versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. The web apps allow sharing and collaboration of documents and files and also feature user interfaces similar to their desktop counterparts. Office Web Apps were released to Windows Live Skydrive and SharePoint Workspace on June 2010. You may use the free web-based version of Office to create documents, and can download Office Viewers to view the documents on your system. [edit]Office

Mobile 2010

Main article: Microsoft Office Mobile The office suite for Windows Mobile by Microsoft, is updated together with Office 2010. Windows Mobile 6.5 or higher is required to run Microsoft Office Mobile 2010. Some of the new features included are:
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Presentation Companion: The add-on to PowerPoint Mobile allows users to control a presentation through their Windows Phone and display speaker notes.

Conversation View: Outlook Mobile threads related emails into a group for easier reading and management

SharePoint Workspace Mobile: The new application allows users to sync documents from SharePoint servers directly to their Windows Phone for offline viewing and editing.

Support for New Content in Office 2010 such as SmartArt graphics and charts