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  Microsoft Office , or simply   Office , is a family of   client software ,   server software , and services developed by   Microsoft . It was first announced by   Bill Gates   on August 1, 1988, at   COMDEX   in   Las Vegas . Initially a marketing term for an   office suite   (bundled set of productivity   applications ), the first version of Office contained   Microsoft Word ,   Microsoft Excel , and   Microsoft PowerPoint . Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker,   OLE   data integration and   Visual Basic for Applications   scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the   Office Business Applications   brand. On July 10, 2012,   Softpedia   reported that Office was being used by over a billion people worldwide. [11] Office is produced in several versions targeted towards different end-users and computing environments. The original,