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Archived from the original on August 18, Internet companies in broad secret program". Office was released to manufacturing on October 11, Office introduces Click-To-Run 2. Retail versions of Office use the Click-to-Run installer. Office is more cloud -based than previous versions; a domain login, Office account, or Microsoft account can now be used to sync Office application settings including recent documents between devices, and users can also save documents directly to their OneDrive account.

New features include a new read mode in Microsoft Word , a presentation mode in Microsoft PowerPoint and improved touch and inking in all of the Office programs. Microsoft Word can also insert video and audio from online sources as well as the capability to broadcast documents on the Web. The Office Web Apps suite was also updated for Office , introducing additional editing features and interface changes.

Unlike past versions of Office, retail copies of Office on DVD are only offered in select regions, such as those Microsoft classifies as emerging markets , as well as Australia , at the discretion of retailers.

In all other regions, retail copies of Office and Office subscriptions only contain a product key , and direct users to the Office website to redeem their license and download the software. The original license agreement for retail editions of Microsoft Office was different from the license agreements of retail editions of previous versions of Microsoft Office in two significant ways.

In previous versions of Office, this restriction applied only to OEM editions; retail Office license agreements allowed uninstalling from one computer to install on another computer. Digitally downloaded copies of Office were also said to be permanently locked to that PC's hardware, preventing it from being transferred to any other computing device. Should the buyer have wished to use Office on a different computer, or if they later became unable to use the computing device that the original license was downloaded to e.

However, on March 6, , Microsoft announced that equivalent transfer rights to those in the Office retail license agreements are applicable to retail Office copies effective immediately. Transfer of license from one computer to another owned by the same user is now allowed every 90 days, except in the case of hardware failure, in which the license may be moved sooner. The first user of the product is now also allowed to transfer it to another user.

In previous versions of Office, this restriction also applied only to OEM editions; retail Office license agreements allowed installing the product on two or three computers, depending on the edition. As with previous versions, Office is made available in several distinct editions aimed towards different markets. The Office subscription services, which were previously aimed towards business and enterprise users, were expanded for Office to include new plans aimed at home use.

The subscriptions allow use of the Office applications by multiple users using a software as a service model. Different plans are available for Office , some of which also include value-added services , such as 20 GB of OneDrive storage later increased to 1 TB and 60 Skype minutes per month on the new Home Premium plan. In Windows RT 8. The edition, whilst visually indistinguishable from normal versions of Office , contains special optimizations for ARM -based devices, such as changes to reduce battery usage including, for example, freezing the animation of the blinking cursor for text editing during periods of inactivity , enabling touch mode by default to improve usability on tablets, and using the graphics portion of a device's SoC for hardware acceleration.

The release date for the final version varied depending on the user's language, and was distributed through Windows Update when released. Office RT modifies or excludes other various features for compatibility reasons or resource reduction.

To save disk space; templates, clip art, and language packs are downloaded online rather than stored locally. In comparison to their Windows Phone 7 versions, the new versions add an improved Office Hub interface that can sync recently opened and modified documents including changes to documents stored via Office and SkyDrive , [70] a separated OneNote app with additional features such as voice notes and integration with the new "Rooms" functionality of the OS , and improved document editing and viewing functionality.

In June , Microsoft released a version of Office Mobile for iPhone ; it is similar to the Windows Phone version, but originally requires an Office subscription to use. Apps for iPad and Android tablet computers were released in March and January , respectively. Windows 10 Mobile that was released in December included new Office apps, more in line with their iPhone and Android equivalent, and making use of the "universal app" platform pioneered with Windows Each Microsoft Office application has the following requirements, although there may be app-specific requirements.

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Learn more about a Microsoft account. It was abandoned when it was determined that it would take the development team too long to rewrite and then catch up with all the new capabilities that could have been added at the same time without a rewrite. With the release of Word 6. It introduced AutoCorrect, which automatically fixed certain typing errors, and AutoFormat, which could reformat many parts of a document at once.

While the Windows version received favorable reviews e. Many accused it of being slow, clumsy and memory intensive, and its user interface differed significantly from Word 5. Word for Windows is available stand-alone or as part of the Microsoft Office suite. Word contains rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities and is the most widely used word processing program on the market. Word files are commonly used as the format for sending text documents via e-mail because almost every user with a computer can read a Word document by using the Word application, a Word viewer or a word processor that imports the Word format see Microsoft Word Viewer.

It was a straightforward port of Word 6. Starting with Word 95, releases of Word were named after the year of its release, instead of its version number. Word introduced a redesigned user interface that emphasized the most common controls, dividing them into tabs, and adding specific options depending on the context, such as selecting an image or editing a table.

The redesigned interface also includes a toolbar that appears when selecting text, with options for formatting included. Word also included the option to save documents as Adobe Acrobat or XPS files, [34] and upload Word documents like blog posts on services such as WordPress.

Word allows the customization of the Ribbon, [35] adds a Backstage view for file management, [36] has improved document navigation, allows creation and embedding of screenshots, [37] and integrates with online services such as Microsoft OneDrive. Word added co-authoring, a visual refresh on the start experience and tabs, automatic cloud saving, dark mode, line focus, an updated draw tab, and support for ODF 1.

The Mac was introduced on January 24, , and Microsoft introduced Word 1. Each platform restarted its version numbering at "1. Word 4. The later Word 6 was a Windows port and poorly received. Many people continue to run Word 5. Document compatibility reached parity with Word 97, [29] and it included features from Word 97 for Windows, including spell and grammar checking with squiggles.

Word , released in , added a few new features, including the Office Clipboard , which allowed users to copy and paste multiple items. Word X, released in , was the first version to run natively on, and required, Mac OS X, [40] and introduced non-contiguous text selection.

Word was released in May It included a new Notebook Layout view for taking notes either by typing or by voice. Word , released on January 15, , included a Ribbon-like feature, called the Elements Gallery, that can be used to select page layouts and insert custom diagrams and images. It also included a new view focused on publishing layout, integrated bibliography management, [45] and native support for the new Office Open XML format. It was the first version to run natively on Intel-based Macs.

Word , released in October , replaced the Elements Gallery in favor of a Ribbon user interface that is much more similar to Office for Windows, [47] and includes a full-screen mode that allows users to focus on reading and writing documents, and support for Office Web Apps. Word , added real-time co-authoring, automatic cloud saving, dark mode, immersive reader enhancements, line focus, a visual refresh, the ability to save pictures in SVG format, and a new Sketched style outline.

Microsoft Word's native file formats are denoted either by a. Although the. The classic Mac OS of the era did not use filename extensions. The newer. During the late s and early s, the default Word document format. DOC became a de facto standard of document file formats for Microsoft Office users.

According to Joel Spolsky , Word Binary File Format is extremely complex mainly because its developers had to accommodate an overwhelming number of features and prioritize performance over anything else. As with all OLE Compound Files, Word Binary Format consists of "storages", which are analogous to computer folders and "streams", which are similar to computer files. Each storage may contain streams or other storage. Word and later continue to support the DOC file format, although it is no longer the default.

Opening a Word Document file in a version of Word other than the one with which it was created can cause an incorrect display of the document.

The document formats of the various versions change in subtle and not so subtle ways such as changing the font or the handling of more complex tasks like footnotes. Formatting created in newer versions does not always survive when viewed in older versions of the program, nearly always because that capability does not exist in the previous version.

In October , one year before the Microsoft Office suite was released, Microsoft declared that there was insufficient demand from Microsoft customers for the international standard OpenDocument format support and that therefore it would not be included in Microsoft Office This statement was repeated in the following months. This work was started in response to government requests for interoperability with ODF. The goal of project was not to add ODF support to Microsoft Office, but only to create a plugin and an external tool-set.

Among its features, Word includes a built-in spell checker, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and utilities for manipulating and editing text. The following are some aspects of its feature set. Several later versions of Word include the ability for users to create their formatting templates, allowing them to define a file in which: the title, heading, paragraph, and other element designs differ from the standard Word templates.

For example, Normal. It determines the margin defaults as well as the layout of the text and font defaults. Although Normal. This will change other documents which were created using the template. It can also be used to create and display simple line art. Microsoft Word added support [81] for the common SVG vector image format in for Office ProPlus subscribers and this functionality was also included in the Office release.

WordArt enables drawing text in a Microsoft Word document such as a title, watermark, or other text, with graphical effects such as skewing, shadowing, rotating, stretching in a variety of shapes and colors, and even including three-dimensional effects.

Users can apply formatting effects such as shadow, bevel, glow, and reflection to their document text as easily as applying bold or underline. Users can also spell-check text that uses visual effects and add text effects to paragraph styles. A Macro is a rule of pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence often a sequence of characters should be mapped to an output sequence according to a defined process.

Frequently used or repetitive sequences of keystrokes and mouse movements can be automated. Like other Microsoft Office documents, Word files can include advanced macros and even embedded programs. This extensive functionality can also be used to run and propagate viruses in documents. The tendency for people to exchange Word documents via email, USB flash drives , and floppy disks made this an especially attractive vector in A prominent example was the Melissa virus , but countless others have existed.

These macro viruses were the only known cross-platform threats between Windows and Macintosh computers and they were the only infection vectors to affect any macOS system up until the advent of video codec trojans in Word's macro security setting, which regulates when macros may execute, can be adjusted by the user, but in the most recent versions of Word, it is set to HIGH by default, generally reducing the risk from macro-based viruses, which have become uncommon.

Before Word Word 14 for Windows, the program was unable to correctly handle ligatures defined in OpenType fonts. Since Word , the program now has advanced typesetting features which can be enabled, [83] OpenType ligatures, [84] kerning and hyphenation previous versions already had the latter two features.

Other layout deficiencies of Word include the inability to set crop marks or thin spaces. Various third-party workaround utilities have been developed. In Word for Mac OS X, support of complex scripts was inferior even to Word 97 [86] and Word did not support Apple Advanced Typography features like ligatures or glyph variants. Microsoft word is only awkwardly suitable for some kinds of technical writing, specifically, that which requires: mathematical equations , figure placement, table placement and cross-references to any of these items.

The usual workaround for equations is to use a third-party equation typesetter. Figures and tables must be placed manually; there is an anchor mechanism but it is not designed for fully automatic figure placement and editing text after placing figures and tables often requires re-placing those items by moving the anchor point and even then the placement options are limited.

This problem is deeply baked into Word's structure since as it does not know where page breaks will occur until the document is printed. Microsoft Word supports bullet lists and numbered lists. It also features a numbering system that helps add correct numbers to pages, chapters, headers, footnotes, and entries of tables of content; these numbers automatically change to correct ones as new items are added or existing items are deleted.

Bullets and numbering can be applied directly to paragraphs and converted to lists. In particular, a second irrelevant numbered list might have not started with number one but instead resumed numbering after the last numbered list.

Although Word 97 supported a hidden marker that said the list numbering must restart afterward, the command to insert this marker Restart Numbering command was only added in Word However, if one were to cut the first item of the listed and paste it as another item e.

Users can also create tables in Word. Depending on the version, Word can perform simple calculations — along with support for formulas and equations as well. Word continues to default to non-Unicode characters and non-hierarchical bulleting, despite user preference for Powerpoint-style symbol hierarchies e.

Available in certain versions of Word e. According to Ron Fein of the Word 97 team, AutoSummarize cuts wordy copy to the bone by counting words and ranking sentences. First, AutoSummarize identifies the most common words in the document barring "a" and "the" and the like and assigns a "score" to each word — the more frequently a word is used, the higher the score.

Then, it "averages" each sentence by adding the scores of its words and dividing the sum by the number of words in the sentence — the higher the average, the higher the rank of the sentence.

AutoSummarize was removed from the Office release version 14 as well. Word Mobile is a word processor that allows creating and editing documents. It supports basic formatting, such as bolding, changing font size, and changing colors from red, yellow, or green. It can add comments, but can't edit documents with tracked changes.

It can't open password protected documents, change the typeface, text alignment, or style normal, heading 1 ; create bulleted lists; insert pictures; or undo. Word for the web is a free lightweight version of Microsoft Word available as part of Office on the web, which also includes web versions of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Word for the web lacks some Ribbon tabs, such as Design and Mailings. Mailings allows users to print envelopes and labels and manage mail merge printing of Word documents. Certain advanced features like table sorting or columns will not be displayed but are preserved as they were in the document. Other views available in the Word desktop app Outline, Draft, Web Layout and Full Screen Reading are not available, nor are side-by-side viewing, split windows and the ruler.

The second and third password types were developed by Microsoft for convenient shared use of documents rather than for their protection. There is no encryption of documents that are protected by such passwords and the Microsoft Office protection system saves a hash sum of a password in a document's header where it can be easily accessed and removed by the specialized software.

Password to open a document offers much tougher protection that had been steadily enhanced in the subsequent editions of Microsoft Office. Word 95 and all the preceding editions had the weakest protection that utilized a conversion of a password to a bit key.

Key length in Word 97 and was strengthened up to 40 bit. However, modern cracking software allows removing such a password very quickly — a persistent cracking process takes one week at most. Use of rainbow tables reduces password removal time to several seconds. Some password recovery software can not only remove a password but also find an actual password that was used by a user to encrypt the document using the brute-force attack approach.

Statistically, the possibility of recovering the password depends on the password strength. Nonetheless, a password can be fairly quickly picked with a brute-force attack, because its speed is still high regardless of the CSP selected.

Moreover, since the CSPs are not active by default, their use is limited to advanced users only. In , it was found that a photo on the Polish version of Microsoft's business productivity website—which depicted three people of various races during an office meeting—had been edited to replace the head of an African-American man with that of a Caucasian , whilst also failing to edit the person's hand to match the different skin color.

Microsoft apologized and quickly removed the image. In , Moneylife. Sapkale was accused of breaking his own site's privacy policy by posting the IP and email addresses of the commenters, while the commenting duo's failure to declare any interest looked, at best, like astroturfing. In details on a partnership between Machinima.

This is due to the company being tax resident in Bermuda as mentioned in the accounts for 'Microsoft Round Island One', a subsidiary that collects licence fees from the use of Microsoft software worldwide. Dame Margaret Hodge , a Labour MP in the UK said, "It is unsurprising — yet still shocking — that massively wealthy global corporations openly, unashamedly and blatantly refuse to pay tax on the profits they make in the countries where they undertake business".

John C. Dvorak said that in the s, Microsoft classified journalists as "Okay", "Sketchy", or "Needs work" and targeted "Needs work" journalists in an attempt to have them terminated. Dvorak said that he was denied information about Windows because he was on a blacklist.

Microsoft along with Google, Yahoo , Cisco , AOL , Skype , and other companies has cooperated with the Chinese government in implementing a system of Internet censorship. On June 4, , the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre , searches for the Tank Man image and videos were censored by Microsoft Bing search engine worldwide. Hours after Microsoft acknowledged the issue, the search returned only pictures of tanks elsewhere in the world. Search engines that license results from Microsoft such as DuckDuckGo and Yahoo faced similar issues.

Microsoft said the issue was "due to an accidental human error. The director of Human Rights Watch , Kenneth Roth , said he found the idea it was an inadvertent error "hard to believe". David Greene, Civil Liberties Director at Electronic Frontier Foundation , said that content moderation was impossible to do perfectly and "egregious mistakes are made all the time", but he further elaborated that "At worst, this was purposeful suppression at the request of a powerful state.

Microsoft was the first company to participate in the PRISM surveillance program , according to leaked NSA documents obtained by The Guardian [] and The Washington Post [] in June , and acknowledged by government officials following the leak.

Microsoft has denied [] participation in such a program. In a statement, Microsoft said that they "provide customer data only in response to legal processes. Windows 10 was criticized on-launch for having default settings that send various information regarding user behaviors to Microsoft and its "trusted partners", such as data regarding user contacts and calendar events, location data and history, "telemetry" diagnostics data ; [] this could not be fully disabled on non-enterprise versions of Windows 10 , an "advertising ID", as well as further data when the Cortana assistant is enabled in full.

Microsoft faced criticism from France's data protection commission and the European Union for its practices in regards to Windows On subsequent iterations of the OS, Microsoft has clarified its data collection policies, and made its out-of-box experience provide clearer information on Windows privacy settings, and the effects they have on the overall user experience.

In May , Microsoft announced that a number of its MSN contract journalists would be replaced by robot journalism leading to criticism about which stories would be displayed and their quality.

Microsoft has come under some criticism for its attitude to homosexuality and Xbox Live. Users may not use the string "gay" in a gamertag even in a non-homosexual context, for example as part of a surname , or refer to homosexuality in their profile including self-identifying as such , as the company considers this "content of a sexual nature" or "offensive" to other users and therefore unsuitable for the service.

Asymmetric numeral systems is widely used family of method in data compression, whose author gave it to public domain - wanting to be unrestricted by the patent system, also successfully defending from patent by Google. In , the Australian Strategic Policy Institute accused at least 82 major brands of being connected to forced Uyghur labor in Xinjiang. Microsoft is reported as being supplied by three Chinese factories employing Uyghur and Xinjiang workers.

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This application was developed to help users type and save documents. As such, no matter how upgraded or the most recent version is, the primary purpose is the same for all of them. All the features that each of these versions has been aimed at making the Word processing experience better. You can comfortably use any of these versions of Word to create and edit your documents. Nevertheless, the whole experience differs from a different version. After creating and editing your document, all versions of Ms word give you the option of saving your text in the location of your choice.

You can save your document locally on your computer or even on an external storage device like a flash disk. Furthermore, Ms word offers you a print option in case you want to get a hard copy of your document. You can resize and adjust your document for the print type of your choice. Traditional word applications only enabled you to access them locally by installing them on your computer, but with this version, things are more advanced.

You can comfortably access these versions through your web browser. Moreover, in addition to saving your documents locally, you can keep them on a Microsoft cloud system. In a cloud system, you can access your work whenever and wherever you need them. All these versions allow access and manipulation of the same document by different people.

Multiple individuals can edit the same text, unlike in the older versions, which dictated one user at a time. Word is an application that is not limited to a particular individual user.

Students, business people, writers, and home users are all encompassed in the usage of this software. All these versions come with different features that suit each user according to their needs. Each of these versions is compatible with a later version of itself. For instance, you can open and work on a document created with ms word on ms word Furthermore, you can save your files in Rich Text Format, which is compatible across all the versions.

As such, if you have recently upgraded to a newer version, no need to worry that your documents will not open. Ms word flaunts multiple and diverse formatting features that seek to make document editing perfect.

You can select desirable fonts, color text, create tables, format paragraphs, insert images, and hyperlink to your document. Furthermore, you can add headers and footers, page breaks, and line breaks, among other formatting features. In consideration of features and better document processing capabilities, this is how each of these versions stood out:. Upon its release, it was highly regarded since it came with better features and lots of improvements that made the Word processing experience more bearable.

This could be viewed from the following perspectives:. Although initially was hard to work with for new users, continued use of the app made users like it. The ribbon makes different features more visible and discoverable hence making navigation faster and easier. The simplest of tasks such as bulleting, outlining, changing fonts, and the color is faster and easier, unlike in older versions. The clarity of the ribbon is something to be admired about this version.

Before the release of this version, security was not a consideration for word developers. However, this version attempted to keep in check the security aspect by introducing a protected view.

Such allows you to view a risky document in a sandbox. This is probably the most significant improvement that Microsoft made on WordWord back in the day.

Backstage is a simple interface that relieves the ribbon of carrying all functionality tools and features. It manages the security, printing, saving, and sharing of your files.

Furthermore, it holds the option and Helps with menus. Backstage is where you look for any option you might be missing on the ribbon. Before sharing your documents, ms word has a document inspector that cleans up and secures your file. Once your text is secure, you can then choose a preferred sharing option backstage. You can email your document or save it on Skydrive from whence you can share through other means.

Furthermore, this app allows you to share more than one document at a time. With older versions, some editing tasks like copy-pasting were quite a hustle.

However, this app made things easier. You can copy and paste a document from a different source and choose whether to retain its format or change it through the in-line editing menu.

Furthermore, this app allows you to edit images directly within Word. Microsoft also made some more improvements in word to improve on user experience.

Such included the following:. Initially, when you fired up WordWord, a blank document was your first stop. However, with word , you have yourself a landing page. In the left pane is a list of your recent works, while on the right pane is a collection of templates.

You can work with an invoice, a blog post, among others. A new, improved ribbon is also present on the landing page. A design format tab was also added for more formatting options. Like in windows , you can also share documents through SkyDrive. However, with this version, you can share with people who don't have WordWord installed on their computers. They can access the text through a link which they can open on their browsers. There was always the problem of scrappy work whenever many people edited a document.

However, with the Simple Markup tool, the word solved this issue. The app displays the final edited text but shows lines where the work was edited.

Furthermore, you can deal with comments made on your document with ease as you do on Facebook. There is a small speech bubble icon that leads to the comments session. You can also lock Track your documents so that one needs password clearance to edit your work.

This version has incorporated the use of SkyDrive as a default storage location. You can always access your document for editing through your browser on your PC or tablet. Sometimes you need to read a document, but the distractions around the word window knock you off. Word has a read mode to provide a minimalist-distraction-free view of your document. The read mode sets the page color to sepia or white, and your text is organized into columns increating a free-flowing read mode.

If you need to stop, Word saves the document so you can access it later. Word made working with images easier. New tools were added to ensure you can efficiently deal with pictures in WordWord, you can insert, drag, and edit images. With this app, you can add web photos and videos from online platforms directly to your Word document. To add a video, there is an "Online Video" tab that you tap to select and add your video.

Traditionally, with older versions, editing PDFs called for extra plug-is or workarounds, but with word , this is a functional feature. Microsoft Word is set apart from its preceding versions by the following features:. With this version, you do not have to keep navigating through menus to get your options.

The Regional and Language Options applet provides Language toolbar and additional settings. With Office XP, Microsoft incorporated several features to address reliability issues observed in previous versions of Office:.

Additionally, all Office XP programs provide options for users to digitally sign documents. When upgrading from a previous version of Office, Office XP retains the user's previous configuration. The Custom Installation Wizard can prohibit the installation, use, or uninstallation of programs or features such as the Run from Network and Installed on First Use setup options.

Finally, the Custom Maintenance Wizard has been updated to provide customization options to configure Office XP including user preferences and security settings.

In an effort to curtail software piracy , Microsoft incorporated product activation technology into all versions of Office XP to prohibit users from installing a single copy of the software in a manner that violates the end-user license agreement EULA. The EULA allows a single user to install one copy each on a primary device and a portable device such as a laptop. Users who make substantial hardware changes to an Office XP device may need to reactivate the software through the Internet or by telephone.

Product activation does not require personally identifiable information. Office XP introduced an optional subscription-based activation model that allowed consumers to annually license the product and receive incremental updates at a reduced price when compared with the cost of a full retail version. Microsoft originally intended to deliver the activation model to United States customers after the retail availability of Office XP on May 31, , but later decided to make it available to consumers in "a few select locations" instead, citing a more cautious delivery approach.

A new "Ask a Question" feature appears in the top-right corner of all Office XP programs and allows users to type natural language questions and receive answers without opening the Office Assistant "Clippy" or Office Help.

Additionally, Office Help has been updated to aggregate and display content from the Internet in response to a query. The Office Assistant is now disabled by default and only appears when Help is activated. The component products were packaged together in various suites. Some of these editions were available as retail packages in either full or upgrade versions, others as full OEM versions for inclusion with new PCs, and still others as volume license versions that required no activation.

All editions provided the core components of Word, Excel, and Outlook, and all editions except the Small Business edition provided PowerPoint. Microsoft Office XP received mixed to positive reviews after its release. CNET praised the new collaboration and data recovery features, and stated that Office XP offered a "host of incremental improvements" over its predecessor, Office , but ultimately concluded that "most enhancements and additions are better suited for groups than individuals.

While most assessments of Office XP were positive, the speech recognition feature was frequently criticized due to its inaccuracy and lack of advanced functionality. CNET regarded it as "especially lame" because of its inability to recognize text editing commands such as "select the sentence" and because it required users to manually switch between command and dictation modes.

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It brings back the classic menus and toolbars to Microsoft Office (includes Word) , , , , and The classic view helps the people to smoothly upgrade to the latest version of Office, and work with Office /// as if it were Office (and , ). Screen Shot of Classic Menu for Word. Microsoft Word is a word processing software developed by replace.me was first released on October 25, , under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (), AT&T UNIX PC (), Atari ST (), OS/2 (), . Microsoft Office (codenamed Office 15) is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft replace.me is the successor to Microsoft Office and the predecessor to Microsoft Office Unlike its predecessor, no OS X equivalent was released. Microsoft Office includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for . Microsoft Office XP (codenamed Office 10) is an office suite which was officially revealed in July by Microsoft for the Windows operating replace.me XP was released to manufacturing on March 5, , and was later made available to retail on May 31, , less than five months prior to the release of Windows XP. It is the successor to Office and the predecessor of .
 
 

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With Office XP, Microsoft incorporated several features to address reliability issues observed in previous versions of Office. Office XP is incompatible with Windows 95 and earlier versions of Windows.

Office XP received mostly positive reviews upon its release, with critics praising its collaboration features, document protection and recovery functionality, and smart tags; however, the worx handwriting recognition mixrosoft speech recognition capabilities were criticized and were mostly viewed as inferior to similar offerings from competitors.

As of Mayover 60 million Office XP licenses had been sold. Microsoft released three service packs for Office XP during its lifetime. At a meeting with financial analysts in JulyMicrosoft demonstrated Office XP, then known by its codename, Office 10, which included a subset of features Microsoft designed in accordance with what at the time was known as the. NET strategyone by which it intended to provide extensive client access to various jicrosoft services and features such as speech recognition.

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Full File updates did not require access to installation media and were intended for network administrators to deploy updates to Office XP users who installed rree product from a server location; [31] [32] [33] users could also manually install Full File updates.

Service Pack 1 SP1 was released on December 11,and included performance and security improvements, as well as stability improvements based on error reports from users. Service Pack 2 SP2released on August 21, included all previously available standalone updates; some microsoft word 2016 vs 2013 free the those 2061 released included cumulative security patches for Excel and Word to address potentially malicious code embedded in document macros.

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The default Startup task pane is automatically available when users launch an Office XP program and presents individual commands to open an existing file, create a new blank file or one from a templateadd a network location, or open Office Help. The Search task pane includes individual Basic and Advanced modes and allows users to query local or remote locations for files.

The Basic mode allows users to perform full-text searcheswhile the Advanced mode provides additional file property query options. The Office Clipboard has been redesigned as the Clipboard task pane across all Office XP programs and can accommodate up to 24 clipboard items compared to 12 in Office Clipboard items provide a visual representation to mkcrosoft users distinguish different types miccrosoft content. Access and Excel support exporting and importing XML. Users can also save Excel workbooks as XML spreadsheets.

Office XP introduces handwriting recognition in all Microsoft word 2016 vs 2013 free programs, allowing users to write with a mouse or stylus instead of entering text by typing on a keyboard. Once installed, handwriting functionality is also available in Internet Explorer 5 and Outlook Express 5 or later.

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Criticism of Microsoft has followed various aspects of its products and business practices. Issues with ease of use , robustness , and security of the company's software are common targets for critics. In the s, a number of malware mishaps targeted security flaws in Windows and other products. Microsoft was also accused of locking vendors and consumers in to their products, and of not following or complying with existing standards in its software.

The company has been the subject of numerous lawsuits , brought by several governments and by other companies, for unlawful monopolistic practices.

Commission case, and it received an million euro fine. On September 14, , Microsoft's flagship store was shut down by protestors as part of a direct action organized by Close the Camps NYC.

From its inception, Microsoft defined itself as a platform company and understood the importance of attracting third-party programmers. It did so by providing development tools, training, access to proprietary APIs in early versions, and partner programs.

Although the resulting ubiquity of Microsoft software allows a user to benefit from network effects , critics and even Microsoft itself decry what they consider to be an " embrace, extend and extinguish " strategy of adding proprietary features to open standards or their software implementations, thereby using its market dominance to gain unofficial ownership of standards "extended" in this way. Microsoft software is also presented as a "safe" choice for IT managers purchasing software systems.

The Windows API is so broad, so deep, and so functional that most independent software vendors would be crazy not to use it. And it is so deeply embedded in the source code of many Windows apps that there is a huge switching cost to using a different operating system instead It is this switching cost that has given the customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO total cost of ownership , our lack of a sexy vision at times, and many other difficulties [ In short, without this exclusive franchise called the Windows API, we would have been dead a long time ago.

Concerns were raised that this requirement would hinder the use of alternate operating systems such as Linux. In a post discussing secure boot on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft developer Tony Mangefeste indicated that vendors would provide means to customize secure boot, stating that "At the end of the day, the customer is in control of their PC.

Microsoft's philosophy is to provide customers with the best experience first, and allow them to make decisions themselves. Gates' letter provoked many responses, with some hobbyists objecting to the broad accusation, and others supporting the principle of compensation. The Halloween documents , internal Microsoft memos which were leaked to the open source community beginning in , indicate that some Microsoft employees perceive "open source" software — in particular, Linux — as a growing long-term threat to Microsoft's position in the software industry.

Another concern of critics is that Microsoft may be using the distribution of shared source software to harvest names of developers who have been exposed to Microsoft code, as some believe that these developers could someday be the target of lawsuits if they were ever to participate in the development of competing products.

This issue is addressed in published papers from several organizations including the American Bar Association and the Open Source Initiative. Starting in the s, Microsoft was accused of maintaining "hidden" or "secret" APIs: interfaces to its operating system software that it deliberately keeps undocumented to gain a competitive advantage in its application software products.

On October 10, , Microsoft joined the Open Invention Network community despite holding more than 60, patents. On July 6, , Microsoft announced that it was placing their ECMA and ECMA specifications under their Community Promise pledging that they would not assert their patents against anyone implementing, distributing, or using alternative implementations of.

NET stack not submitted to the ECMA for standardization has been the source of patent violation concerns for much of the life of the project. The concerns primarily relate to technologies developed by Microsoft on top of the. NET and Windows Forms see non-standardized namespaces , i. These technologies are today [ when? In June the Ubuntu Technical Board stated that it saw "no reason to exclude Mono or applications based upon it from the archive, or from the default installation set.

Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields has stated, "We do have some serious concerns about Mono and we'll continue to look at it with our legal counsel to see what if any steps are needed on our part", yet "We haven't come to a legal conclusion that is pat enough for us to make the decision to take mono out".

In November at an Ubuntu Developer Summit , developers voted to have the Mono-based Banshee media player removed from Ubuntu's default installation beginning on Ubuntu Mono developer Joseph Michael Shields defended the performance of Banshee on ARM, and also the claims that Banshee was not well-maintained as being a "directed personal insult" to one of its major contributors.

Microsoft ignored unauthorized copying of its own software for their benefit on the long term. While talking about users in China who don't pay for the software they use in , to an audience at the University of Washington, Bill Gates said "And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

The practice allowed Microsoft to gain some dominance over the Chinese market and only then taking measures against unauthorized copies. In , by means of the Windows update mechanism, a verification program called " Windows Genuine Advantage " WGA was downloaded and installed. This behavior angered users and generated complaints in China with a lawyer stating that "Microsoft uses its monopoly to bundle its updates with the validation programs and forces its users to verify the genuineness of their software".

A common complaint [50] comes from those who want to purchase a computer that usually comes preinstalled with Windows without a copy of Windows pre-installed and without paying extra for the license either so that another operating system can be used or because a license was already acquired elsewhere, such as through the MSDN Academic Alliance program.

While it is possible to obtain a computer with no or free operating systems, [56] virtually all large computer vendors continue to bundle Microsoft Windows with the majority of the personal computers in their ranges. The claimed increase in the price of a computer resulting from the inclusion of a Windows license has been called the "Windows tax" or "Microsoft tax" by opposing computer users.

In , all major OEMs agreed to this restriction. Microsoft does not provide refunds for Windows licenses sold through an OEM, including licenses that come with the purchase of a computer or are pre-installed on a computer. According to Microsoft's End User License Agreement for Windows 7 the ability to receive a refund for the operating system is determined by the hardware manufacturer: [61].

By using the software, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the software. Instead, contact the manufacturer or installer to determine its return policy. You must comply with that policy, which might limit your rights or require you to return the entire system on which the software is installed. Acer Inc. Instead, contact the manufacturer or installer to determine their return policy for a refund or credit. Based on the updated language, vendors refused to issue partial refunds for Windows licenses, requiring that the computer be returned altogether.

In some countries, this practice has been ruled a violation of consumer protection law. Microsoft's market dominance and business practices have attracted widespread resentment, which is not necessarily restricted to the company's competitors. In a publication, Dan Geer argued the prevalence of Microsoft products has resulted in a monoculture which is dangerously easy for viruses to exploit.

Microsoft has been criticized for the use of permatemp employees employees employed for years as "temporary," and therefore without medical benefits , use of forced retention tactics, where departing employees would be sued to prevent departure, as well as more traditional cost-saving measures, ranging from cutting medical benefits to not providing towels in company locker rooms.

Historically, Microsoft has also been accused of overworking employees, in many cases, leading to burnout within just a few years of joining the company.

The company is often referred to as a "Velvet Sweatshop", a term which originated in a Seattle Times article, [71] and later became used to describe the company by some of Microsoft's own employees. For example, the kitchenettes have free beverages and many buildings include exercise rooms and showers. However, the company has been accused of attempting to keep employees at the company for unreasonably long hours and working them too much. A US state lawsuit was brought against Microsoft in representing 8, current and former employees that had been classified as "temporary" and "freelance", and became known as Vizcaino v.

The Final Settlement [73] came in The case was decided on the IRS-defined basis that such "permatemps" had their jobs defined by Microsoft, worked alongside regular employees doing the same work, and worked for long terms. A side effect of the "permatemp" lawsuit is that now contract employees are prevented from participating in team morale events and other activities that could be construed as making them "employees". They are also limited to month contracts and must leave after that time for 6 months before returning under contract.

Microsoft is the largest American corporate user of H-1B guest worker visas and has joined other large technology companies like Google in recently lobbying for looser H-1B visa restrictions. Jesse Jackson believes Microsoft should hire more minorities and women.

Jackson has urged other companies to diversify their workforce. He believes that Microsoft made some progress when it appointed two women to its board of directors in During the antitrust case United States v. Microsoft , ATL sent a poll to 19 state attorneys general purporting to show that "the public believes state AGs should devote their energy to causes other than Microsoft".

In June , the AdTI published a report, quickly pulled under the argument that it was a draft version, which contained criticism of the copyleft model and the GNU General Public License. A May press release for the report stated that it would contain arguments suggesting that governments could be threatened by hackers and terrorists who could study potential vulnerabilities due to source availability if it used open source software.

However, the draft contained no references to these topics. The advert featured a newborn baby being launched out of its mother—aging as it flies through the air, and crashing into a gravestone. It contained the tagline "Life is short, play more. The comparison included the cost of hardware, and put Linux at a disadvantage by installing it on more expensive but poorer-performing hardware compared to that used for Windows.

Microsoft spokesperson Catherine Brooker expressed the belief that the article had been "heavily written" by IBM employees who supported the rival OpenDocument format, though she provided no specific evidence. Internet entrepreneur and Wikimedia Foundation founder Jimmy Wales described Microsoft's offer as unethical.

In , it was found that a photo on the Polish version of Microsoft's business productivity website—which depicted three people of various races during an office meeting—had been edited to replace the head of an African-American man with that of a Caucasian , whilst also failing to edit the person's hand to match the different skin color. Microsoft apologized and quickly removed the image. In , Moneylife. Sapkale was accused of breaking his own site's privacy policy by posting the IP and email addresses of the commenters, while the commenting duo's failure to declare any interest looked, at best, like astroturfing.

In details on a partnership between Machinima. This is due to the company being tax resident in Bermuda as mentioned in the accounts for 'Microsoft Round Island One', a subsidiary that collects licence fees from the use of Microsoft software worldwide. Dame Margaret Hodge , a Labour MP in the UK said, "It is unsurprising — yet still shocking — that massively wealthy global corporations openly, unashamedly and blatantly refuse to pay tax on the profits they make in the countries where they undertake business".

John C. Dvorak said that in the s, Microsoft classified journalists as "Okay", "Sketchy", or "Needs work" and targeted "Needs work" journalists in an attempt to have them terminated. Dvorak said that he was denied information about Windows because he was on a blacklist. Microsoft along with Google, Yahoo , Cisco , AOL , Skype , and other companies has cooperated with the Chinese government in implementing a system of Internet censorship. On June 4, , the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre , searches for the Tank Man image and videos were censored by Microsoft Bing search engine worldwide.

Hours after Microsoft acknowledged the issue, the search returned only pictures of tanks elsewhere in the world. Search engines that license results from Microsoft such as DuckDuckGo and Yahoo faced similar issues.

Microsoft said the issue was "due to an accidental human error. The director of Human Rights Watch , Kenneth Roth , said he found the idea it was an inadvertent error "hard to believe". David Greene, Civil Liberties Director at Electronic Frontier Foundation , said that content moderation was impossible to do perfectly and "egregious mistakes are made all the time", but he further elaborated that "At worst, this was purposeful suppression at the request of a powerful state.

Microsoft was the first company to participate in the PRISM surveillance program , according to leaked NSA documents obtained by The Guardian [] and The Washington Post [] in June , and acknowledged by government officials following the leak. Microsoft has denied [] participation in such a program.

In a statement, Microsoft said that they "provide customer data only in response to legal processes.

Microsoft Word is a word processing software developed by Microsoft. Using Wine , versions of Microsoft Word before can be run on Linux. Commercial versions of Word are licensed as a standalone product or as a component of Microsoft Office suite of software, which can be purchased either with a perpetual license or as part of a Microsoft subscription.

This was made easier by Word for DOS having been designed for use with high-resolution displays and laser printers, even though none were yet available to the general public. It fulfilled a need for a word processor that was more capable than MacWrite. Word 3. Within a few months, Word 3.

Word 5. Many users say it is the best version of Word for Mac OS ever created. The Atari ST version was a port of Word 1. The first version of Word for Windows was released in With the release of Windows 3. As of February [update] , it is still available for download from Microsoft's web site. Both the Windows and Mac OS versions would start from the same code base. It was abandoned when it was determined that it would take the development team too long to rewrite and then catch up with all the new capabilities that could have been added at the same time without a rewrite.

With the release of Word 6. It introduced AutoCorrect, which automatically fixed certain typing errors, and AutoFormat, which could reformat many parts of a document at once.

While the Windows version received favorable reviews e. Many accused it of being slow, clumsy and memory intensive, and its user interface differed significantly from Word 5.

Word for Windows is available stand-alone or as part of the Microsoft Office suite. Word contains rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities and is the most widely used word processing program on the market. Word files are commonly used as the format for sending text documents via e-mail because almost every user with a computer can read a Word document by using the Word application, a Word viewer or a word processor that imports the Word format see Microsoft Word Viewer.

It was a straightforward port of Word 6. Starting with Word 95, releases of Word were named after the year of its release, instead of its version number. Word introduced a redesigned user interface that emphasized the most common controls, dividing them into tabs, and adding specific options depending on the context, such as selecting an image or editing a table.

The redesigned interface also includes a toolbar that appears when selecting text, with options for formatting included. Word also included the option to save documents as Adobe Acrobat or XPS files, [34] and upload Word documents like blog posts on services such as WordPress.

Word allows the customization of the Ribbon, [35] adds a Backstage view for file management, [36] has improved document navigation, allows creation and embedding of screenshots, [37] and integrates with online services such as Microsoft OneDrive. Word added co-authoring, a visual refresh on the start experience and tabs, automatic cloud saving, dark mode, line focus, an updated draw tab, and support for ODF 1.

The Mac was introduced on January 24, , and Microsoft introduced Word 1. Each platform restarted its version numbering at "1. Word 4. The later Word 6 was a Windows port and poorly received. Many people continue to run Word 5. Document compatibility reached parity with Word 97, [29] and it included features from Word 97 for Windows, including spell and grammar checking with squiggles. Word , released in , added a few new features, including the Office Clipboard , which allowed users to copy and paste multiple items.

Word X, released in , was the first version to run natively on, and required, Mac OS X, [40] and introduced non-contiguous text selection. Word was released in May It included a new Notebook Layout view for taking notes either by typing or by voice. Word , released on January 15, , included a Ribbon-like feature, called the Elements Gallery, that can be used to select page layouts and insert custom diagrams and images. It also included a new view focused on publishing layout, integrated bibliography management, [45] and native support for the new Office Open XML format.

It was the first version to run natively on Intel-based Macs. Word , released in October , replaced the Elements Gallery in favor of a Ribbon user interface that is much more similar to Office for Windows, [47] and includes a full-screen mode that allows users to focus on reading and writing documents, and support for Office Web Apps.

Word , added real-time co-authoring, automatic cloud saving, dark mode, immersive reader enhancements, line focus, a visual refresh, the ability to save pictures in SVG format, and a new Sketched style outline. Microsoft Word's native file formats are denoted either by a.

Although the. The classic Mac OS of the era did not use filename extensions. The newer. During the late s and early s, the default Word document format. DOC became a de facto standard of document file formats for Microsoft Office users. According to Joel Spolsky , Word Binary File Format is extremely complex mainly because its developers had to accommodate an overwhelming number of features and prioritize performance over anything else.

As with all OLE Compound Files, Word Binary Format consists of "storages", which are analogous to computer folders and "streams", which are similar to computer files.

Each storage may contain streams or other storage. Word and later continue to support the DOC file format, although it is no longer the default. Opening a Word Document file in a version of Word other than the one with which it was created can cause an incorrect display of the document.

The document formats of the various versions change in subtle and not so subtle ways such as changing the font or the handling of more complex tasks like footnotes. Formatting created in newer versions does not always survive when viewed in older versions of the program, nearly always because that capability does not exist in the previous version.

In October , one year before the Microsoft Office suite was released, Microsoft declared that there was insufficient demand from Microsoft customers for the international standard OpenDocument format support and that therefore it would not be included in Microsoft Office This statement was repeated in the following months.

This work was started in response to government requests for interoperability with ODF. The goal of project was not to add ODF support to Microsoft Office, but only to create a plugin and an external tool-set. Among its features, Word includes a built-in spell checker, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and utilities for manipulating and editing text.

The following are some aspects of its feature set. Several later versions of Word include the ability for users to create their formatting templates, allowing them to define a file in which: the title, heading, paragraph, and other element designs differ from the standard Word templates.

For example, Normal. It determines the margin defaults as well as the layout of the text and font defaults. Although Normal. This will change other documents which were created using the template.

It can also be used to create and display simple line art. Microsoft Word added support [81] for the common SVG vector image format in for Office ProPlus subscribers and this functionality was also included in the Office release.

WordArt enables drawing text in a Microsoft Word document such as a title, watermark, or other text, with graphical effects such as skewing, shadowing, rotating, stretching in a variety of shapes and colors, and even including three-dimensional effects. Users can apply formatting effects such as shadow, bevel, glow, and reflection to their document text as easily as applying bold or underline.

Users can also spell-check text that uses visual effects and add text effects to paragraph styles. A Macro is a rule of pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence often a sequence of characters should be mapped to an output sequence according to a defined process.

Frequently used or repetitive sequences of keystrokes and mouse movements can be automated. Like other Microsoft Office documents, Word files can include advanced macros and even embedded programs. This extensive functionality can also be used to run and propagate viruses in documents. The tendency for people to exchange Word documents via email, USB flash drives , and floppy disks made this an especially attractive vector in A prominent example was the Melissa virus , but countless others have existed.

These macro viruses were the only known cross-platform threats between Windows and Macintosh computers and they were the only infection vectors to affect any macOS system up until the advent of video codec trojans in Word's macro security setting, which regulates when macros may execute, can be adjusted by the user, but in the most recent versions of Word, it is set to HIGH by default, generally reducing the risk from macro-based viruses, which have become uncommon.

Before Word Word 14 for Windows, the program was unable to correctly handle ligatures defined in OpenType fonts. Since Word , the program now has advanced typesetting features which can be enabled, [83] OpenType ligatures, [84] kerning and hyphenation previous versions already had the latter two features. Other layout deficiencies of Word include the inability to set crop marks or thin spaces.

Various third-party workaround utilities have been developed. In Word for Mac OS X, support of complex scripts was inferior even to Word 97 [86] and Word did not support Apple Advanced Typography features like ligatures or glyph variants.

Microsoft word is only awkwardly suitable for some kinds of technical writing, specifically, that which requires: mathematical equations , figure placement, table placement and cross-references to any of these items.

The usual workaround for equations is to use a third-party equation typesetter. Figures and tables must be placed manually; there is an anchor mechanism but it is not designed for fully automatic figure placement and editing text after placing figures and tables often requires re-placing those items by moving the anchor point and even then the placement options are limited. This problem is deeply baked into Word's structure since as it does not know where page breaks will occur until the document is printed.

Microsoft Word supports bullet lists and numbered lists. It also features a numbering system that helps add correct numbers to pages, chapters, headers, footnotes, and entries of tables of content; these numbers automatically change to correct ones as new items are added or existing items are deleted.

Bullets and numbering can be applied directly to paragraphs and converted to lists. In particular, a second irrelevant numbered list might have not started with number one but instead resumed numbering after the last numbered list. Although Word 97 supported a hidden marker that said the list numbering must restart afterward, the command to insert this marker Restart Numbering command was only added in Word However, if one were to cut the first item of the listed and paste it as another item e.

Users can also create tables in Word. Depending on the version, Word can perform simple calculations — along with support for formulas and equations as well. Word continues to default to non-Unicode characters and non-hierarchical bulleting, despite user preference for Powerpoint-style symbol hierarchies e.

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Word offers significantly more secure document protection which utilizes the modern Advanced Encryption Standard AES that converts a password to a bit key using a SHA-1 hash function 50, times.

It makes password removal impossible as of today, no computer that can pick the key in a reasonable amount of time exists and drastically slows the brute-force attack speed down to several hundreds of passwords per second. Word's protection algorithm was not changed apart from the increasing number of SHA-1 conversions up to , times and consequently, the brute-force attack speed decreased two times more.

Initial releases of Word were met with criticism. Byte in criticized the documentation for Word 1. It called the software "clever, put together well and performs some extraordinary feats", but concluded that "especially when operated with the mouse, has many more limitations than benefits While the review cited an excellent WYSIWYG display, sophisticated print formatting, windows, and footnoting as merits, it criticized many small flaws, very slow performance, and "documentation produced by Madame Sadie's Pain Palace".

It concluded that Word was "two releases away from potential greatness". It's like a Mozart or Edison , whose occasional gaucherie we excuse because of his great gifts".

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Upon its release, it was highly regarded since it came with better features and lots of improvements that made the Word processing experience more bearable. This could be viewed from the following perspectives:. Although initially was hard to work with for new users, continued use of the app made users like it. The ribbon makes different features more visible and discoverable hence making navigation faster and easier.

The simplest of tasks such as bulleting, outlining, changing fonts, and the color is faster and easier, unlike in older versions. The clarity of the ribbon is something to be admired about this version. Before the release of this version, security was not a consideration for word developers. However, this version attempted to keep in check the security aspect by introducing a protected view. Such allows you to view a risky document in a sandbox.

This is probably the most significant improvement that Microsoft made on WordWord back in the day. Backstage is a simple interface that relieves the ribbon of carrying all functionality tools and features. It manages the security, printing, saving, and sharing of your files.

Furthermore, it holds the option and Helps with menus. Backstage is where you look for any option you might be missing on the ribbon. Before sharing your documents, ms word has a document inspector that cleans up and secures your file. Once your text is secure, you can then choose a preferred sharing option backstage. You can email your document or save it on Skydrive from whence you can share through other means.

Furthermore, this app allows you to share more than one document at a time. With older versions, some editing tasks like copy-pasting were quite a hustle. However, this app made things easier. You can copy and paste a document from a different source and choose whether to retain its format or change it through the in-line editing menu. Furthermore, this app allows you to edit images directly within Word.

Microsoft also made some more improvements in word to improve on user experience. Such included the following:. Initially, when you fired up WordWord, a blank document was your first stop. However, with word , you have yourself a landing page. In the left pane is a list of your recent works, while on the right pane is a collection of templates. You can work with an invoice, a blog post, among others. A new, improved ribbon is also present on the landing page. A design format tab was also added for more formatting options.

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Microsoft also comes with services like 1 TB of OneDrive storage, 60 Skype minutes per month, and Microsoft chat and phone support. With a subscription, you get the latest versions of the apps and automatically receive updates when they happen. Office is a one-time purchase that comes with classic apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for PC or Mac, and does not include any of the services that come with a Microsoft subscription.

Learn more about the differences between Microsoft and Office in Office Support, or use the comparison chart to help you pick the right Office version for your needs. First, check if you are eligible for Office Education , which is free for qualified teachers and students, and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Microsoft Teams, and other classroom tools from Microsoft. Office Education is not a trial, and is available for free to accredited academic institutions who have successfully signed up for this program.

If your school is not eligible for Office Education, you can choose from other Office options to find the Office version that fits your budget and needs. Go to Office Support for more steps to download, install, reinstall, activate, or update Office. Learn more. Install most apps and software, like Microsoft , Windows, and Xbox games, via digital download.

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Internet access is required to install and activate all the latest releases of Office suites and all Microsoft subscription plans. For Microsoft plans, Internet access is also needed to manage your subscription account, for example to install Office on other PCs or to change billing options.

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To reactivate your Office applications, simply reconnect to the Internet. You do not need to be connected to the Internet to use the Office applications, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, because the applications are fully installed on your computer.

A Product Key is a unique character alpha-numeric code used to redeem and activate your Office product. You cannot use a product key for an older Office product or a different product to redeem your new copy of Office. To find your Product Key, look for the character alpha-numeric code on the back of the card inside your Office product packaging.

Sometimes the Product Key may be printed on your retail receipt. Get information on locating your product key. Office is available in the languages listed below. Microsoft offers simple and cost-effective solutions for multilingual individuals, families, and small businesses. Sign in with the Microsoft account that you used to purchase, or have already associated, with the subscription or one-time purchase product, and then follow the onscreen instructions to install Office. Learn more about where to enter your Office product key.

To download and install older versions of Office, visit www. The actual download speed of Office depends on the speed of your Internet connection; a broadband Internet connection is recommended for the best download experience. All versions of the new Office for Windows PCs use a streaming technology that lets you begin to use Office applications before installation is complete. Icons for Office applications are created when you install Office.

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Criticism of Microsoft has followed various aspects of its products and business practices. Issues with ease of use, robustness, and security of the company's software are common targets for critics. In the s, a number of malware mishaps targeted security flaws in Windows and other products. Microsoft was also accused of locking vendors and consumers in to their . Microsoft Word is a word processing software developed by replace.me was first released on October 25, , under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (), AT&T UNIX PC (), Atari ST (), OS/2 (), . First, check if you are eligible for Office Education, which is free for qualified teachers and students, and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Microsoft Teams, and other classroom tools from replace.me Education is not a trial, and is available for free to accredited academic institutions who have successfully signed up for this program.

Gates' letter provoked many responses, with some hobbyists objecting to the broad accusation, and others supporting the principle of compensation. The Halloween documents , internal Microsoft memos which were leaked to the open source community beginning in , indicate that some Microsoft employees perceive "open source" software — in particular, Linux — as a growing long-term threat to Microsoft's position in the software industry.

Another concern of critics is that Microsoft may be using the distribution of shared source software to harvest names of developers who have been exposed to Microsoft code, as some believe that these developers could someday be the target of lawsuits if they were ever to participate in the development of competing products. This issue is addressed in published papers from several organizations including the American Bar Association and the Open Source Initiative. Starting in the s, Microsoft was accused of maintaining "hidden" or "secret" APIs: interfaces to its operating system software that it deliberately keeps undocumented to gain a competitive advantage in its application software products.

On October 10, , Microsoft joined the Open Invention Network community despite holding more than 60, patents. On July 6, , Microsoft announced that it was placing their ECMA and ECMA specifications under their Community Promise pledging that they would not assert their patents against anyone implementing, distributing, or using alternative implementations of.

NET stack not submitted to the ECMA for standardization has been the source of patent violation concerns for much of the life of the project. The concerns primarily relate to technologies developed by Microsoft on top of the. NET and Windows Forms see non-standardized namespaces , i. These technologies are today [ when?

In June the Ubuntu Technical Board stated that it saw "no reason to exclude Mono or applications based upon it from the archive, or from the default installation set.

Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields has stated, "We do have some serious concerns about Mono and we'll continue to look at it with our legal counsel to see what if any steps are needed on our part", yet "We haven't come to a legal conclusion that is pat enough for us to make the decision to take mono out".

In November at an Ubuntu Developer Summit , developers voted to have the Mono-based Banshee media player removed from Ubuntu's default installation beginning on Ubuntu Mono developer Joseph Michael Shields defended the performance of Banshee on ARM, and also the claims that Banshee was not well-maintained as being a "directed personal insult" to one of its major contributors. Microsoft ignored unauthorized copying of its own software for their benefit on the long term.

While talking about users in China who don't pay for the software they use in , to an audience at the University of Washington, Bill Gates said "And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.

They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade. The practice allowed Microsoft to gain some dominance over the Chinese market and only then taking measures against unauthorized copies. In , by means of the Windows update mechanism, a verification program called " Windows Genuine Advantage " WGA was downloaded and installed. This behavior angered users and generated complaints in China with a lawyer stating that "Microsoft uses its monopoly to bundle its updates with the validation programs and forces its users to verify the genuineness of their software".

A common complaint [50] comes from those who want to purchase a computer that usually comes preinstalled with Windows without a copy of Windows pre-installed and without paying extra for the license either so that another operating system can be used or because a license was already acquired elsewhere, such as through the MSDN Academic Alliance program.

While it is possible to obtain a computer with no or free operating systems, [56] virtually all large computer vendors continue to bundle Microsoft Windows with the majority of the personal computers in their ranges. The claimed increase in the price of a computer resulting from the inclusion of a Windows license has been called the "Windows tax" or "Microsoft tax" by opposing computer users. In , all major OEMs agreed to this restriction. Microsoft does not provide refunds for Windows licenses sold through an OEM, including licenses that come with the purchase of a computer or are pre-installed on a computer.

According to Microsoft's End User License Agreement for Windows 7 the ability to receive a refund for the operating system is determined by the hardware manufacturer: [61]. By using the software, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the software. Instead, contact the manufacturer or installer to determine its return policy. You must comply with that policy, which might limit your rights or require you to return the entire system on which the software is installed.

Acer Inc. Instead, contact the manufacturer or installer to determine their return policy for a refund or credit. Based on the updated language, vendors refused to issue partial refunds for Windows licenses, requiring that the computer be returned altogether.

In some countries, this practice has been ruled a violation of consumer protection law. Microsoft's market dominance and business practices have attracted widespread resentment, which is not necessarily restricted to the company's competitors. In a publication, Dan Geer argued the prevalence of Microsoft products has resulted in a monoculture which is dangerously easy for viruses to exploit. Microsoft has been criticized for the use of permatemp employees employees employed for years as "temporary," and therefore without medical benefits , use of forced retention tactics, where departing employees would be sued to prevent departure, as well as more traditional cost-saving measures, ranging from cutting medical benefits to not providing towels in company locker rooms.

Historically, Microsoft has also been accused of overworking employees, in many cases, leading to burnout within just a few years of joining the company. The company is often referred to as a "Velvet Sweatshop", a term which originated in a Seattle Times article, [71] and later became used to describe the company by some of Microsoft's own employees.

For example, the kitchenettes have free beverages and many buildings include exercise rooms and showers. However, the company has been accused of attempting to keep employees at the company for unreasonably long hours and working them too much. A US state lawsuit was brought against Microsoft in representing 8, current and former employees that had been classified as "temporary" and "freelance", and became known as Vizcaino v.

The Final Settlement [73] came in The case was decided on the IRS-defined basis that such "permatemps" had their jobs defined by Microsoft, worked alongside regular employees doing the same work, and worked for long terms. A side effect of the "permatemp" lawsuit is that now contract employees are prevented from participating in team morale events and other activities that could be construed as making them "employees". They are also limited to month contracts and must leave after that time for 6 months before returning under contract.

Microsoft is the largest American corporate user of H-1B guest worker visas and has joined other large technology companies like Google in recently lobbying for looser H-1B visa restrictions. Jesse Jackson believes Microsoft should hire more minorities and women. Jackson has urged other companies to diversify their workforce. He believes that Microsoft made some progress when it appointed two women to its board of directors in During the antitrust case United States v. Microsoft , ATL sent a poll to 19 state attorneys general purporting to show that "the public believes state AGs should devote their energy to causes other than Microsoft".

In June , the AdTI published a report, quickly pulled under the argument that it was a draft version, which contained criticism of the copyleft model and the GNU General Public License. A May press release for the report stated that it would contain arguments suggesting that governments could be threatened by hackers and terrorists who could study potential vulnerabilities due to source availability if it used open source software. However, the draft contained no references to these topics.

The advert featured a newborn baby being launched out of its mother—aging as it flies through the air, and crashing into a gravestone. It contained the tagline "Life is short, play more. The comparison included the cost of hardware, and put Linux at a disadvantage by installing it on more expensive but poorer-performing hardware compared to that used for Windows. Microsoft spokesperson Catherine Brooker expressed the belief that the article had been "heavily written" by IBM employees who supported the rival OpenDocument format, though she provided no specific evidence.

Internet entrepreneur and Wikimedia Foundation founder Jimmy Wales described Microsoft's offer as unethical. In , it was found that a photo on the Polish version of Microsoft's business productivity website—which depicted three people of various races during an office meeting—had been edited to replace the head of an African-American man with that of a Caucasian , whilst also failing to edit the person's hand to match the different skin color.

Microsoft apologized and quickly removed the image. In , Moneylife. Sapkale was accused of breaking his own site's privacy policy by posting the IP and email addresses of the commenters, while the commenting duo's failure to declare any interest looked, at best, like astroturfing. In details on a partnership between Machinima.

This is due to the company being tax resident in Bermuda as mentioned in the accounts for 'Microsoft Round Island One', a subsidiary that collects licence fees from the use of Microsoft software worldwide. Dame Margaret Hodge , a Labour MP in the UK said, "It is unsurprising — yet still shocking — that massively wealthy global corporations openly, unashamedly and blatantly refuse to pay tax on the profits they make in the countries where they undertake business".

John C. Dvorak said that in the s, Microsoft classified journalists as "Okay", "Sketchy", or "Needs work" and targeted "Needs work" journalists in an attempt to have them terminated.

Dvorak said that he was denied information about Windows because he was on a blacklist. Microsoft along with Google, Yahoo , Cisco , AOL , Skype , and other companies has cooperated with the Chinese government in implementing a system of Internet censorship. On June 4, , the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre , searches for the Tank Man image and videos were censored by Microsoft Bing search engine worldwide.

Hours after Microsoft acknowledged the issue, the search returned only pictures of tanks elsewhere in the world. Search engines that license results from Microsoft such as DuckDuckGo and Yahoo faced similar issues.

Microsoft said the issue was "due to an accidental human error. The director of Human Rights Watch , Kenneth Roth , said he found the idea it was an inadvertent error "hard to believe". David Greene, Civil Liberties Director at Electronic Frontier Foundation , said that content moderation was impossible to do perfectly and "egregious mistakes are made all the time", but he further elaborated that "At worst, this was purposeful suppression at the request of a powerful state.

Microsoft was the first company to participate in the PRISM surveillance program , according to leaked NSA documents obtained by The Guardian [] and The Washington Post [] in June , and acknowledged by government officials following the leak. Microsoft has denied [] participation in such a program. In a statement, Microsoft said that they "provide customer data only in response to legal processes. Windows 10 was criticized on-launch for having default settings that send various information regarding user behaviors to Microsoft and its "trusted partners", such as data regarding user contacts and calendar events, location data and history, "telemetry" diagnostics data ; [] this could not be fully disabled on non-enterprise versions of Windows 10 , an "advertising ID", as well as further data when the Cortana assistant is enabled in full.

Microsoft faced criticism from France's data protection commission and the European Union for its practices in regards to Windows On subsequent iterations of the OS, Microsoft has clarified its data collection policies, and made its out-of-box experience provide clearer information on Windows privacy settings, and the effects they have on the overall user experience.

In May , Microsoft announced that a number of its MSN contract journalists would be replaced by robot journalism leading to criticism about which stories would be displayed and their quality. Microsoft has come under some criticism for its attitude to homosexuality and Xbox Live. Users may not use the string "gay" in a gamertag even in a non-homosexual context, for example as part of a surname , or refer to homosexuality in their profile including self-identifying as such , as the company considers this "content of a sexual nature" or "offensive" to other users and therefore unsuitable for the service.

Asymmetric numeral systems is widely used family of method in data compression, whose author gave it to public domain - wanting to be unrestricted by the patent system, also successfully defending from patent by Google.

In , the Australian Strategic Policy Institute accused at least 82 major brands of being connected to forced Uyghur labor in Xinjiang. Microsoft is reported as being supplied by three Chinese factories employing Uyghur and Xinjiang workers. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Overview of the criticism of Microsoft. Further information: Software patents and free software.

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