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About Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2007 (code named Office 12) is a version of Microsoft Office, a family of office suites and productivity software for windows, developed and published by Microsoft.  It was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006 and to retail customers on January 30, 2007, the same respective release dates of Windows Vista. It was preceded by Office 2003 and succeeded by Office 2010.

Office 2007 introduced a new graphical user interface called the fluent user interface which uses ribbons and an office start menu instead of menu bars and toolbars. 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. Microsoft Office 2007 is the last version of Microsoft Office 2007 to support Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

Microsoft Office 2007 includes new applications and server-side tools, including Microsoft 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 Microsoft Office Share Point Server 2007, a major revision to the server platform for Microsoft Office Applications, which supports Microsoft Excel Services, a client-server architecture for supporting Microsoft Excel Workbooks that are shared in real time between multiple machines, and are also viewable and editable through a we page. 

With Microsoft Front Page discontinued, Microsoft Share Point Portals, becomes part of the Office 2007 family. Its designer-oriented counterpart, Microsoft Expression Web, is targeted for general web development. However, neither application has been included in Microsoft Office 2007 software suites.

Speech and ink components are removed from Office 2007, since speech recognition and handwriting recognition becoming a part of Windows Vista or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. However, Windows XP users can use an earlier version of Microsoft Office to use speech recognition.

According to Forester Research, as of may 2010, Microsoft Office 2007 is used in 81% of enterprises it surveyed (its sample comprising 115 North American and European enterprise and SMB decision makers).

About Microsoft Office 1995
Microsoft Office 95, also known as Microsoft Office for Windows 95, released on 24 August 1995, was a version of Microsoft Office deisgned specifically for Windows 95, succeeding Microsoft Office 4.3. Microsoft Office ws replaced by Microsoft Office 97.

About Microsoft Office 2003
Microsoft Office 2003 is an office suit written and distributed by Microsoft for their Windows operating system. Released to manufacturing on August 19, 2003 and launched on October 21, 2003, it was the successor to Microsoft Office XP and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2007. It is the first version to officially work on Microsoft Windows 7.

A new Microsoft Office Logo was debuted as part of a re-branding effort by Microsoft, as well as two new applications: InfoPath and OneNote. OneNote is a note-taking and organizing application for text, handwritten notes or diagrams, recorded audio and graphics, and InfoPath is an application for designing, distributing, filling and submitting electronic forms containing structured data. Microsoft Office 2003 was the first version to use Microsoft Windows XP style icons, visual styles and colors. 

Microsoft Office 2003 runs only on NT-based versions of Windows; it is not supported on Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Me, or Windows NT 4.0. It is the last version of Microsoft Office to be compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000. It is listed as being "Not Compatible" with Microsoft Windows 8 by the Microsoft Windows 8 Compatibility Center, although some users have claimed it is compatible.

Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2003 was released on July 27, 2004, Service Pack 2 was released on September 27, 2005, and Service Pack 3 was released on September 17, 2007. The last cumulative update for Microsoft Office 2003, Service Pack 3 resolved several compatibility and stability issues with Microsoft Windows Vista and later operating systems.

Mainstream support for Microsoft Office 2003 ended April 14, 2009, and extended support will end April 8, 2014.