Many people choose the Microsoft Office Word program to create texts.
Microsoft Office is an office computer software package developed by Microsoft Corp. (an American company founded in 1975 ). It is a set of applications that perform office tasks, that is, they allow you to automate and perfect the usual activities of an office.
The oldest version of Microsoft Office was launched in 1989 with two basic packages: one consisting of Microsoft PowerPoint , Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word , and another to which the Schedule Plus and Microsoft Access programs were added.
Word and Excel, the most popular programs
Word is one of the most popular programs that are part of Microsoft Office . It consists of a word processor that includes a spell checker, thesaurus and the possibility of working with various fonts (typefaces).
Excel , for its part, is made up of spreadsheets or spreadsheets. Its main attraction is the possibility of performing arithmetic operations automatically, which facilitates the development of balance sheets and accounting statements.
Powerpoint and Outlook, other Microsoft Office tools
PowerPoint is the Office program used to create and display visual presentations. Its basis is the development of multimedia slides that can include images, text, sound and videos.
Personal data management and emails can be managed from Outlook . Its main strength is the email client, although it also offers a calendar and a contact directory.
Microsoft Office has different useful tools for work and study.
Low popularity and increased competition
The popularity of Office has been declining in recent years. The first victim is likely to have been PowerPoint, when many users began to understand that Flash offered them the same possibilities and many more, with a level of customization impossible to achieve in the first .
Then, with the massification of mobile phones and the attractiveness of their applications , a kind of migration from the PC to these devices took place, transforming the software market and collaborating with the growth of the cloud and free tools. Most likely, this has not gone unnoticed by Microsoft, given that for some time now it has been possible to enjoy some of the features of Office for free and through an email account.
Microsoft Office and the piracy problem
It should be noted that Microsoft Office is a licensed program. Therefore, those who wish to take advantage of its benefits must purchase it and respect the conditions of the contract, such as the prohibition of making copies for profit. Some of its main competitors are OpenOffice (open source), StarOffice , Lotus Symphony and WordPerfect Office .
Like Windows and the different Adobe packages, where we find Photoshop and Illustrator, Office is one of the most common sources of piracy . One of the main reasons is that they are very useful tools for training, since they are usually among the requirements of most jobs that include computer work of some type.
Today, there are free alternatives to almost all of them, which in some cases are more powerful and efficient, but which usually have a weak point in common: interfaces that are difficult to navigate and visually unattractive . This leads many users to discard them in a matter of seconds, returning to convenient illegal downloads . However, given that piracy has proliferated, avoiding every obstacle that has come its way, many wonder if large software development companies really suffer from this situation.
It is common to hear that it is probably themselves, Microsoft and Adobe, for example, who ensure that their programs reach as many homes as possible, whether through regular acquisitions or illegal copies. This theory is based on the fact that the true profit occurs when a company purchases the necessary applications for its employees, and that by allowing individual users to know and enjoy its tools, their popularity grows to the point of turning them into reference points.