Professional processed its number one appearance in the early 90s, & was at first the marketing term for the bundled placed of applications that were antecedently marketed & sold seperately. A independent marketing point was that buying a bundle was substantially inexpensive than buying both of the single applications in their have. A 1st version of Professional contained Word, Excel & Powerpoint. In addition, the "Pro" version of Professional involved Microsoft Access. (Microsoft Outlook did non however survive at this period). Above a years the Professional applications keep around grown substantially nearer together from either a technical indicator viewpoint, sharing features like a most common spell checker, OLE information integration & the Microsoft VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) scripting language. Withwithin recent years, Microsoft has attempted to position Professional as a development platform in its have perfect, however has got mixed resolutions sustaining this.

Microsoft Professional 2003 Service Box Two download has good been freed. You may download it from either a Microsoft Download Center free streaming-of-charge. It includes totally former updates & service packs. There are a bit of fresh security features.

Professional is considered to become a de facto standard for productivity programs, and has numerous features non present around more suites. Nonetheless, a reverse is besides avowedly, by getting more computer software having capabilities Professional want. A next version, Twelve.Nought, have had a radically different interface from either the older versions.

Core programs in Office
These computer softwcome are involved altogether editions of Microsoft Professional 2003, except Microsoft Professional Basic Edition 2003. Microsoft Professional Basic Edition includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel & Outlook merely.

Office Word
Microsoft Word is a word processor. These are considered to exist as a independent program of Professional. It possesses the dominant market part in the word processor market. Its proprietary DOC format is considered a de facto standard, although its most recent version, Word 11.0/2003, besides supports an XML-based format. Word is too available within occasionally editions of Microsoft Works. These are available for the Windows & Macintosh platforms. Its independent rival come OpenOffice.org Writer, StarOffice, Corel WordPerfect and Apple Pages.

Office Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program. Such as Microsoft Word, it possesses the dominant market part. It was originally the competition to the dominant Lotus 1-2-3 but it eventually outsold it & became a de facto standard. These are available for the Windows & Macintosh platforms. Its independent challenger come OpenOffice.org Calc, StarOffice and Corel Quattro Pro.

Office Outlook
Microsoft Outlook, not to exist as confused by using Outlook Express, is a personal information manager and e-mail communication software. A replacement for Microsoft Mail starting in the 1997 version of Office, it includes an e-electronic mail client, calendar, project manager & location book. Its e-electronic mail program's independent contender come Mozilla Thunderbird/Mozilla, and Eudora. Its individual data manager's independent contender come Mozilla, Lotus Organizer, and Novell Evolution. These are available for Windows; the version is too involved by owning virtually all Pocket PC handhelds. Its Macintosh same is Microsoft Entourage.

Office PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a popular presentation program for Windows and Macintosh. These are utilized to produce slideshows, composed of text, graphics, movies & more objects, which may be displayed in-screen & navigated across per presenter or even printed retired in transparencies or slides. Windows Roving 2005 (Magnetoelectric machine) have had the version of this program. It possesses the dominant market part. Its independent rival come OpenOffice.org Impress, Corel WordPerfect and Apple Keynote.

Other programs included in the Windows versions
Microsoft Access – database manager. For the 2003 version, involved around Microsoft Sales person Professional Edition 2003, & Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition 2003. Microsoft InfoPath – application that enables users to design rich XML-depending forms. Involved around Microsoft Broker Professional Enterprise Edition 2003. Microsoft Publisher – Desktop publishing software. For the 2003 version, involved within Microsoft Sales person Microscopic Business Edition 2003, Microsoft Agency Professional Edition 2003, & Microsoft Professional Professional Enterprise Edition 2003. Microsoft FrontPage – web design computer software (besides takes its have server program). Single offered as a could have-alone program for the 2003 version (non section of the professional suite). Microsoft Visio – diagram software. Microsoft Office Picture Manager – basic photo management computer software (similar to the basic version of Google's Picasa or Adobe's Photoshop Elements). Microsoft Photo Editor – photo editing/raster graphics software inside older Professional versions, & once more around XP. It was temporarily supplemented by Microsoft PhotoDraw in Office 2000 Premium edition. Microsoft Project – project manager. Microsoft OneNote – note taking computer software for even utilize by using tablet PCs or regular PCs. Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 - [http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/001172.html] Developer Information – (simply involved by using creator editions)

Other programs included in the Mac versions
Microsoft Entourage – Personal information manager & communication software package for Macintosh merely (similar to Outlook).

Web Services associated with Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office Online – Web site. Involved all told versions of Microsoft Professional 2003. Microsoft Office Update – Web site. Patch detection & installation service for Professional 2000, XP, & 2003. - [http://Office.microsoft.com/OfficeUpdate]

Older Programs no longer included
Microsoft Binder – incorporates several documents into of these file. Microsoft Schedule Plus – released with Professional 95. It featured the Planner, To wash listing, & Email Facts. Microsoft Mail – mail client (in old versions of Professional, late replaced by Microsoft Outlook). Microsoft Outlook Express – mail client (in Professional 98 Macintosh Edition, late replaced by Microsoft Entourage).

Since 1997 Professional has involved Office Assistant, a rules that utilizes animated characters to offer unrequested context-sensitive suggestions to users and access to relevant area of the help system. Meant to produce a computer software less daunting to newly users, these are generally disabled by experient users. A Supporter is typically dubbed "Clippy" or even "Clippit," due to its default to the paperclip character, coded as CLIPPIT.ACS. A Help is the independent apply of Microsoft Agent technology.

Likewise, beginning sustaining Macintosh Professional Four.Two, a Macintosh & Windows versions of Professional part a equivalent file format. Consequently, any Macintosh by having Professional Four.Two or even late may review documents created by having Windows Professional Four.Deuce or even late, & vice-versa.

Professional 11.0/2003 introduced the newly, optional file format for the entire suite, rest on XML technology. Professional X for Mack is as well built to manage this file format.

Other related companion servers
Microsoft Office Live Communications Server - real time communications server Microsoft Office Project Server - project management server Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server collaboration server

Editions
A Windows version of Microsoft Professional 11.0/2003 is available around sextuplet editions. Which are actually: Microsoft Professional Student & Teacher Edition Xi.0/2003 (MSRP Recently User Price $149 U.s.) Microsoft Professional Basic Edition 11.0/2003 (bundled by having newly computers just) Microsoft Professional Standard Edition Xi.0/2003 (MSRP Recently User Price $399 Usa; Update Price $239 U.s.) Microsoft Professional Microscopic Business Edition Eleven.0/2003 (MSRP Recently User Price $449 U.s.a.; Update Price $279 Usa) Microsoft Broker Professional Edition Eleven.0/2003 (MSRP Freshly User Price $499 The states; Update Price $329 United states) Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition 11.0/2003 (volume licensing merely)

A Macintosh version, Microsoft Professional for Mack 2004, is available inside tierce editions. 100% include Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Retinue. It is monovular except for pricing & a inclusion of Virtual PC in the Agency Edition. Office for Mackintosh 2004 Standard Edition (MSRP Recently User Price $399 U.s.a.; Update Price $239 The states) Office for Mack 2004 Student & Teacher Edition (MSRP Newly User Price $149 The states) Office for Macintosh 2004 Office Edition (MSRP Freshly User Price $499 U.s.a.; Update Price $329 United states)

Pricing when of April 9, 2005 [http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/compare.mspx] [http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/howtobuy/howtobuy.aspx?pid=howtobuy]

Cross-platform use

Microsoft develops Professional primarily for Windows & secondarily for Macintosh. Yet, virtually all versions of the suite can likewise become process in Unix-like operating systems through the use of the compatibility layer such as CrossOver Office or WINE.

As a general rule of thumb, a older, simpler versions begin tend to run substantially better in Wine; still, recently versions own been known to operate too.

Versions
Major Microsoft Windows versions
Office Trio.Cypher (Video-ROM version: Word Two.0c, Excel Four.0a, PowerPoint Three.Nought, Mail) - discharged August 30 1993 Office Quadruplet.Nought (Word 6.Nought, Excel Four.Cipher, PowerPoint Three.Zero) - discharged January 17 1994 Office for NT Four.Deuce (Word 6.Zero [32-bit, i386 and Alpha], Excel Five.Cipher [32-bit, i386 and Alpha], PowerPoint Four.Zero [16-bit], "Microsoft Office Manager") - discharged July 3 1994 Office Quaternary.Deuce-ace (A previous Xvi-bit version; Word 6.Cipher, Excel Five.Cipher, PowerPoint Four.Cypher & in the in favour version: Access Two.Zero) - discharged June 2 1994 Office Septenary.0/'95 (Word '95, etc.) - discharged August 30 1995 Office Eighter from decatur.0/'97 (Word '97, etc.) - discharged December 30 1996 (was published on CD-ROM as well as in the placed of 45 Three½-inch floppy disks) Office Ix.0/2000 (Word 2000, etc.) - discharged January 27 1999 Office Ten.0/2002/XP (Word 2002, etc.) - discharged May 31 2001 Office Xi.0/2003 (Word 2003, etc.) - discharged November 17 2003 Office 12.0/2006 - due to be released simultaneously, or near simultaneously with Windows Vista, Microsoft's next major consumer operating system.

There are variants of other recent versions like Microscopic Business Edition, Student & Teacher Edition, Sales person Edition & Creator Edition by using different collections of applications & pricing points.

Apple Macintosh versions
Office One (Word Three, etc.) - discharged 1990 Office Ii (Word Four, etc.) - discharged 1992 Office Trine (Word Five, etc.) - discharged 1993 Office Little joe.Deuce (A foremost Power Mac-caring version; Word 6.Nought, etc.) - discharged June 2 1994 Office 98 (Word 98, etc.) - discharged March 15 1998 Office 2001 (Word 2001, etc.) - discharged October 11 2000 Office v.X (A foremost Mac OS X/Aqua edition; Word X, etc.) - discharged September 3 2001 Office 2004 (Word 2004, etc.) - discharged May 11 2004

Add ins
The major feature of applications in the Professional suite is the ability for users & third person corporations to write Professional COM add-ins. Component Object Model (COM) add-ins are supplemental computer program that extend a capabilities of an application by adding customized commands & specialized features that potty accommodate specific tasks.

Trivia
Somehow, virtually all versions of Microsoft Professional (including 97 & afterwards, & even Tetrad.Triad) utilise their have widget set, and following don't blend around sustaining a native operating models.

Whereas Windows utilizes "Service Packs", Professional utilized to release "Service Releases". All the same, when Professional 2000 Service Release One, Professional currently single release Service Packs.

Alternatives
There are as well many guide professional suites available, including: OpenOffice.org, an open-source suite available free for download to Windows, Linux, and Macintosh users. It includes near fully compatibility sustaining Microsoft Professional (by using the notable exception of deficiency of fully trend lines for Microsoft Professional Publisher (pothouse) files & the want of a mail client à la Microsoft Professional Outlook) NeoOffice, an open-source OpenOffice.org port for Mac OS X that integrates into its Aquamarine interface. StarOffice, based on a OpenOffice code. Corel's WordPerfect Office. KOffice, an open-source office suite which is a portion of the KDE Desktop Environment.