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Microsoft Office 2013
Microsoft Office 2013, codenamed Office 15, is a release of Microsoft's Office suite, released on January 9, 2013, and designed around touch input and cloud connectivity.
Microsoft Office 2016
Microsoft Office 2016 is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Windows and Mac, released September 22, 2015, with real-time co-authoring in Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
Microsoft Office 2019
Microsoft Office 2019 is a perpetual, one-time purchase version of Microsoft's productivity suite, released for Windows and macOS on September 24, 2018, with support ending in October 2025.
Microsoft Office 2021
Microsoft Office 2021 is a one-time-purchase (perpetual) release of Microsoft's Office suite, released October 5, 2021, succeeding Office 2019 and receiving no new features after release.
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is a productivity suite for Mac OS X that Microsoft released in 2010, adding Outlook and restoring VBA macro support, and succeeding Office 2008.
Microsoft Office Mix
Microsoft Office Mix was a free PowerPoint add-in and cloud service, launched in 2014, that let educators create interactive lessons with narration, quizzes, and analytics; it was retired in 2018.
Microsoft OneLake
Microsoft OneLake is the unified, tenant-wide SaaS data lake built on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 that ships with every Microsoft Fabric tenant, storing Delta Parquet and Iceberg tables and using shortcuts, mirroring, and OneLake security for zero-copy analytics and AI.
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking program from Microsoft, first released with Office 2003, that captures notes in free-form digital notebooks and is free to use across platforms.
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook, also known as Microsoft Office Outlook, is a personal information manager from Microsoft combining email, calendaring, contacts, and tasks, first released in 1997 as part of Office 97.
Microsoft Paint
Microsoft Paint, also known as MS Paint or Paintbrush, is a simple raster graphics editor shipped with Windows since 1985, recently gaining layers, transparency, and AI image generation.
Microsoft Power Automate
Microsoft Power Automate is a cloud-based Microsoft Power Platform service for building workflows that automate business tasks, combining API-based cloud flows with robotic process automation.
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI, also known as PowerBI, is a Microsoft business intelligence and data visualization platform released in 2015, built around Desktop, a cloud service, and mobile apps.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, developed at Forethought and bought by Microsoft in 1987, in which users assemble slides of text, images, and video into slide shows.
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project, also known as MS Project or Microsoft Office Project, is Microsoft's project management software, first released for DOS in 1984 and best known for its desktop scheduling client.
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft for arranging text, pictures, and marketing materials, first released in 1991 and set to retire in October 2026.
Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview is Microsoft's data-governance and compliance brand, launched as Azure Purview in 2020 and renamed in 2022, which scans and catalogs data and enforces policies.
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research, founded by Microsoft in 1991 under first director Rick Rashid, is the company's industrial research organization, conducting basic and applied computer science research at laboratories worldwide.
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio, originally Microsoft Robotics Studio, is a Windows development environment Microsoft released in 2006 for creating robotics applications across many hardware platforms.
Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft Security Essentials was a free antivirus program from Microsoft for Windows XP, Vista, and 7, released in 2009 and ended in 2020, succeeded by Windows Defender.
Microsoft SideWinder
Microsoft SideWinder was a brand of PC gaming peripherals sold by Microsoft from 1995, covering joysticks, gamepads, steering wheels, mice, and keyboards, revived in 2007 and retired around 2011.
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight, first announced in April 2007 under the name WPF/E, was a browser plug-in for delivering .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive web applications as an alternative to Adobe Flash.
Microsoft Solitaire
Microsoft Solitaire (Windows Solitaire): Klondike card game bundled with Windows since Windows 3.0, May 22, 1990; written by intern Wes Cherry, art by Susan Kare; now Microsoft Solitaire Collection with five modes, ads, and Premium.
Microsoft Solitaire Collection
Microsoft Solitaire Collection, released July 28, 2012 by Microsoft Game Studios and developed by Arkadium, bundles Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid, and TriPeaks with daily challenges and Xbox achievements; free with ads, Premium subscription removes them.
Microsoft Spider Solitaire
Microsoft Spider Solitaire is Microsoft's two-deck, ten-column patience game with 1/2/4-suit modes, bundled from Windows ME (2000) and now in Microsoft Solitaire Collection (2012); generalized play is NP-Complete.
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft, using Transact-SQL and sold in editions from a free Express tier to Enterprise, holding about 33 percent of the on-premises DBMS market.
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store: Microsoft's digital storefront for Windows and Xbox apps and games, launched 2012 as Windows Store, 250M+ monthly users, 12-15% fees, free MSIX signing.
Microsoft Surface
Microsoft Surface is a family of Windows personal computers designed and sold by Microsoft since 2012, spanning 2-in-1 tablets with detachable keyboards, clamshell laptops, and business variants of each.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) is Microsoft's chat-based collaboration platform combining workplace messaging, meetings, calls, and file sharing, announced in 2016 and generally available in 2017 as a rival to Slack.
Microsoft Virtual PC
Microsoft Virtual PC is a discontinued Microsoft desktop virtualization product, acquired from Connectix in 2003, that let a computer run guest operating systems like Windows and DOS in virtual machines.
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Visio, formerly Microsoft Office Visio, is a Microsoft diagramming and vector-graphics application, acquired with Visio Corp. in 2000 for about $1.5 billion, used for flowcharts and network diagrams.