Microsoft Office 2007

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Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 applications shown on Windows Vista

(clockwise from top left: Excel, Word, OneNote,
PowerPoint; these four programs make up the Home and
Student Edition)

Developer(s) Microsoft

12.0.6426.1000 (Service Pack 2) / April

Stable release
28, 2009; 9 month(s) ago (2009-04-28)

Operating system Windows XP SP2 and later

Platform Microsoft Windows

 Type Office suite

License Proprietary EULA

Website Official Website of Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office System) is the most recent
Windows version of the Microsoft Office System, Microsoft's productivity suite. Formerly
known as Office 12 in the initial stages of its beta cycle, it was released to volume license
customers on November 30, 2006[1] and made available to retail customers on January 30, 2007.
These are, respectively, the same dates Windows Vista was released to volume licensing and
retail customers. Office 2007 contains a number of new features, the most notable of which is the
entirely new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface[2] (initially referred to as the
Ribbon User Interface), replacing the menus and toolbars – which have been the cornerstone of
Office since its inception – with a tabbed toolbar, known as the Ribbon. Office 2007 requires
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or
higher, Windows Vista or Windows 7.[3] Office 2007 is the last version of Microsoft Office
available for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
The 'Ribbon User Interface' is a task-oriented Graphical User Interface (GUI). It features a
central menu button, widely known as the 'Office Button'. The Ribbon Interface stayed in
Microsoft Office 2010.
Office 2007 also includes new applications and server-side tools. Chief among these is Groove, a
collaboration and communication suite for smaller businesses, which was originally developed
by Groove Networks before being acquired by Microsoft in 2005. Also included is Office
SharePoint Server 2007, a major revision to the server platform for Office applications, which
supports "Excel Services", a client-server architecture for supporting Excel workbooks that are
shared in real time between multiple machines, and are also viewable and editable through a web
page.
Microsoft FrontPage has been removed from the Office suite entirely. It has been replaced by
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, which is aimed towards development of SharePoint
portals. Its designer-oriented counterpart Microsoft Expression Web is targeted for general web
development. However, neither application is included in any of the Office suites.
Speech recognition and handwriting recognition are now part of Windows Vista. Speech and ink
components have been removed from Office 2007.[4][5] Handwriting and speech recognition work
with Office 2007 only on Windows Vista or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. However, XP users
can use an earlier version of Office to use speech recognition.[6]