Office celebrates 25 years of life: Did you know you were born in Mac? – Reuters

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MADRID, Aug. 1 (Portaltic / EP) –

The popular ‘suite’ Microsoft office, Office, held this August 1st 25 years of life. This is their first birthday, since that day in 1989 when it was released for Macintosh, but there is another anniversary that is celebrated to coincide with the arrival of the Redmond OS. And is that Windows came up the following year and has been curious that this year, 2014, when it landed in the popular mobile operating system from Apple. IOS

Although Office and its component programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, has always been associated with the operating system of Microsoft Windows, the fact is that at first U.S. company launched Office 1 for Mac, the computer Steve Jobs in 1989. Yet lasted little apple company and Bill Gates launched the ‘software’ to Windows on November 19, 1990.

Office became one of the great values ​​of Windows in years of overwhelming hegemony and their format became the standard, which were embracing others ‘suites’. Over the years, the operating system Microsoft lost some weight, so did the desktop and, in turn, did their ‘software’ of office. Programs is now common to use ‘open source’, editors ‘cloud’ or browser designed for those who come preinstalled on mobile devices, whether iOS or Android.

For years, Microsoft continued to rely on the weight of Office to give value to your operating system and refused to export to other ecosystems. Integrated it into Windows 8 and Windows Phone, but do not want to see other mobile devices from the competition. However, in April this year, Microsoft admitted that he was missing an opportunity in other ecosystems and released Office for iOS (which just updated so that it can export any file to PDF).

Nor Microsoft left side of the emerging cloud computing, why has so much attention in recent years. In 2011, it launched Office 365, a “cloud” solution-focused companies, with tools such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook tools. New strategies for new times, where Office is not far from the mistress of electronic devices in the office as it was in the past.