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I make no assertion about the notability of the topic, although I expect it can be defended easily enough - popular press iterations with a similar structure surely abound - but rather created this to get some of the crufty list-style content out of the main article. MrZaius^talk 21:14, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for splitting up the long Microsoft Office article. However, I am not sure this is the best move, while I was proposing split into History of Microsoft Office which might be better in my opinion. What about renaming this page to History of Microsoft Office and removing the section "Current version for Windows" as it doubles information with Microsoft Office 2007#Editions?--Kozuch (talk) 10:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, there was almost no historical content in this article. Calling it a list of components was much more accurate, as that was all that was moved. There is so little prose content in the Office article that if an editor did wish to expand on its history that they should do it there, first IMHO. MrZaius^talk 12:30, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Office 365

Please add the history for Microsoft Office 365. Thanks...--John Haigh CA (talk) 19:11, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's time for me to second that; the page having not seen a major revision in more than a year. <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk) 00:21, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Confusion Regarding Inclusion of StarOffice Information

I don't understand the reasoning behind the inclusion of StarOffice information in this article. Perhaps there is some link between them, but it isn't shown here. This appears to be a graphic listing an MS Office competitor product's versions alongside MS Office versions. The inclusion of this graphic is confusing. Unless there is some undisclosed link between the two the graphic should be replaced with one listing only MS Office versions. CheckBoxes (talk) 10:16, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that starting the article with a chart focused on StarWriter (later Star Office) is strange. Also, this chart seems misleading since the visual implies that Star Writer/Office release pre-dated Microsoft products, but that is only because the chart starts the Microsoft history with the "Office" bundle, and leaves out many earlier releases of Word, Excel and even PowerPoint. Chrisalicious99 (talk) 05:51, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Add Office 2019

I'm pretty suer that there was an Office 2019 under the traditional (non-subscription model). If so, it should be added to this article.

Spel-Punc-Gram (talk) 16:39, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft Office 2024 Is Missing

Please add Microsoft Office 2024 to "History of Microsoft Office" article. 78.190.166.35 (talk) 21:35, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Office Version Numbers Since 16.0

Microsoft has kept the same Major Version Number (16.X) across Office 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024, and 365. All of the tables currently display "(16.0)" in the "Title" column for these releases after the version name. It would be much more useful to either display a range which includes minor version numbers (eg. 16.0-16.32, 16.32-Current), or maybe have a separate "Version Number(s)" column included in these tables. Ayuxusw (talk) 19:54, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]