With very little support left in a couple years time, many of us might want to transfer our documents over to LibreOffice or Google Docs. InfoPath - a collaborative software introduced in Office 2003 and last included with Office 2013. It was removed with Office 20 for Windows and macOS respectively, due to low popularity and criticism of the feature throughout the years. The Office 97 assistant characters were Clippy, Office Logo, Mother Nature, Hoverbot, Genius, Scribble, Power Pup, Will and The Dot, while the Office 2000 to 2003 assistant characters were Clippy, The Dot, Genius, F1, Mother Nature, Office Logo, Links and Rocky. Also included in the Mac OS versions of Office 98, 2001, X and 2004. Office Assistant - a feature first introduced with Office 97 utilizing the assistant technology from Microsoft Bob, and later on Office 2000, XP and 2003 in which the latter versions utilized Microsoft Agent for the assistant characters. InterConnect - a Personal Information Manager made by Microsoft's Japanese division originally released in 2004 which was later part of Office 2007.īinder - a utility found in Office 95, that allowed users to add OLE 2.0 objects in their documents. Vizact - a short-lived HTML+TIME animation software made for Office 2000 with only one version ever made. PhotoDraw - a Vector graphics program with at least two versions made for Office 2000. A couple examples include, but not limited to: And also, with Microsoft losing interest with the perpetual license versions, they shortened the support lifecycles of both Office 20, with 2019 getting only seven years of support and 2021 only having five years of support without an extended support llifestyle.Īnd many other applications in the Office suite were short-lived, having only appeared in one or two editions of the suite due to low popularity. Well the perpetual license versions of Office are going away from 2023 onwards it seems. With the end of the Microsoft Office brand for the Microsoft 365 branding in three months time, many of us now have to use either WordPerfect Office, OpenOffice or LibreOffice. With this new change coming in January next year, this makes Office 2021 the final release to bare the old-school Office name, which probably marks the end of the Office suite in its original Windows and macOS desktop application form in favor of the subscription-based stuff Microsoft has been promoting and selling since the 2010s, similar to how Adobe has been promoting and selling their Creative Cloud subscription service after the discontinuation of their Creative Suite software.Īnd I don't know what is ever going to happen to any of the major and minor Office applications (like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher, Visio, Project & Teams) after the January 2023 rebranding next year, well just have to wait and see what comes out. After 32 years, Microsoft is finally retiring the Office brand name and replacing it with their Microsoft 365 branding.
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