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.