Microsoft Office 2.5

Description

The productivity software that Microsoft offers is bundled together under the brand name Microsoft Office. This contains Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, as well as subsequent versions of Mail, Office Manager, and Outlook. The "1.x" editions of Microsoft Office were nothing more than a marketing bundle of the individual products that were marketed together. There were no further modifications made to the packaging during this time. Despite the fact that these were separate applications rather than a single all-encompassing program, they integrated well with one another, had a user interface that was comparable to one another, and shared the capacity to incorporate documents from one application into the documents of another application.

Microsoft Office was initially designed for use on Macintosh computers, but it quickly established itself as the preeminent office suite for Windows 3.x.

There were a number of alternative office suites that Microsoft Office competed with, including Lotus Smartsuite, Borland/WordPerfect/Corel Office, and Star Office. See an exhaustive rundown of Winworld's word processors, spreadsheets, database management systems, and presentation software here as well.