Microsoft Office Logo — Microsoft Office is the office suite of the U.S. company Microsoft for the operating systems Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X . For different tasks are different suites available, which differ in the components included, the price and licensing.

Microsoft Office Logo

Microsoft Office Logo

Microsoft’s Office suites take in the U.S. and in Europe a dominant position; the components of Word , Excel , PowerPoint , Access , and Outlook form in today’s office environments, the de facto standard in their respective fields of application and have formerly competing products such as the word processor WordPerfect , the spreadsheet Quattro Pro and 1-2-3 and Symphony , as well as the database management system Paradox displaced. The biggest competitor to Microsoft’s Office suite make OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice is that depending on the study holds a market share between 5% and 19%, . More