Suite is a French word accepted by the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) to name the living room, bedroom and bathroom complex . This name is common in hotels and usually implies high-class accommodation.
Suites provide more space than traditional rooms and usually include more furniture (tables, chairs, etc.). The most luxurious room in certain hotels is called the presidential suite .
For example: “I would like to know the price of a matrimonial suite with a hydromassage, please” , “Madonna stayed in the presidential suite, where she spent the entire day surrounded by her assistants” , “The suite they offered me did not meet my expectations: “I was looking for a larger space.”
Office suite
In computing , an office suite is a set of programs ( software ) that allows you to perform different typical tasks in the world of work. Writing documents, making accounting balances and printing information are part of the usual functions of a suite.
Less common components of an office suite include databases , image editors and viewers (which can be vector or raster ), formula editors, email clients, note-taking programs. freehand (which require a graphics tablet for proper use), software management applications, and desktop publishing tools (also known as desktop publishing programs ).
This collection of computer programs is developed to provide greater convenience to the user, avoiding the need to purchase each program separately. The most popular office suite is Microsoft Office , created by Windows .
Development of these software suites
Although the first programs for text editing and creating spreadsheets were released in the late 70s , it was not until the middle of the following decade that Lotus Symphony , the first office suite, was born; was launched in 1984 and combined the tools just mentioned with a graphing application, a forms database manager, and a communications program. Its strong point was that all components had access to all the information, so that it could be visualized and treated in different ways.
Contrary to what many would think, the first two versions of Microsoft Office were available exclusively to Mac users until late 1992 , when Office 3.0 made its debut on PC in two versions: the standard, which included Word , Excel , PowerPoint and Mail ; and the professional, which also had Access .
Open source office suites
Office 's success in its fight to establish itself over packages that had been on the market longer was due, in part, to the quality of Excel , its spreadsheet application. Until the mid- 90s , no one could stand up to Microsoft ; but things began to change with the arrival of the open source philosophy. In 1999 , Sun Microsystems purchased StarOffice Suite (which had been developed some time before by a small German company) and began distributing it for free.
In 2000 , Sun freely offered the source code with the explicit intention of developing an open source community around its software. For reasons related to intellectual property, the project was called OpenOffice.org , and it enjoys a considerable level of acceptance by those who do not like piracy and do not have the money necessary to afford the purchase of paid alternatives.
The concept in music
In the field of music , a suite is a musical piece that is composed of several short movements from baroque dances.
The various passages of a suite were usually composed in the same key or its relative minor, so that the piece maintained internal unity. However, at the end of the Baroque, this musical form began to mix different tonalities with thematic contrasts.