Microsoft Office file extensions

Microsoft Office2016, codenamed Office 16, is a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows, and the successor to Microsoft Office 2010. Microsoft Office is an office suite of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows. The current versions are Office 2016 for Windows which was released on September 22, 2015. Microsoft Office comes in several editions, offering various suites for a wide array of customers.

Office Home & Student 2016

Accomplish more for home and homework

The latest Office applications:  Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote

Features:

• Do more with Word docs: open a PDF and edit it, pop in an online video and watch it without leaving the doc, and use Read Mode for distraction-free viewing on any screen.
• Excel templates do most of the setup and design for you, so you can focus on your information. For greater insight, convert your info into a chart or table—in just two steps.
• Create stunning presentations with the new alignment, color-matching, and other design tools in PowerPoint, and easily share them on the web.
• Draw, handwrite, type, click, or swipe your notes in OneNote. Your multi-media notes are saved, searchable, and synced to OneNote apps on your other devices.
• 7 GB online storage with SkyDrive  Your documents, photos, presentations, and OneNote notebooks are saved to SkyDrive automatically, so you can edit and share them from any internet-connected device with a compatible browser.
• Your Office away from home  Free Office WebApps sync with your SkyDrive account, so you can access, view, edit and share your documents, photos and other files from any internet-connected device running a supported browser.

Office Home & Business 2016

Manage life and work more efficiently

Same features as Home & Student edition and also including Outlook app that contains email, shared calendars, and task-list tools to manage home and work schedules together.

Office Professional 2016

Work smarter with Office

Office suite - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access

Features:

• Capture your ideas however you work best, using keyboard, pen, or touchscreen.
• Let one of the great-looking templates from the Start screen do most of the setup and design for you, so you can focus on your ideas and data.
• Keep track of comments in Word documents and mark them as done with the new reply button. Pull content from PDFs straight into Word.
• Open PDFs and edit paragraphs, lists, and tables just as you do in familiar Word documents.
• Save time formatting information in Excel so you can draw insights from your data faster.
• New tools recognize your pattern and auto-complete data.
• Share your PowerPoint presentation over the web by sending a link to it or using the free Office Presentation Service to deliver it, so your audience can join you from anywhere.
• Embed Excel spreadsheets, diagrams, audio clips, videos, and almost any other kind of file in your OneNote notebooks.
• Your notes are saved, searchable, and synced to OneNote apps on your other devices, so you can use or share them from anywhere.
• Respond faster with inline replies in Outlook. Just type your response in the Reading Pane.
• Save time with the new and convenient online photo printing options in Publisher.
• List and summarize data from a related table or query fast in Access. Simply click an item to open a detailed view of that item.
• 7 GB SkyDrive storage -  Your documents, media files, presentations and OneNote notebooks are saved to SkyDrive automatically, so you can edit and share them from any internet-connected device with a compatible browser.
• Your Office away from home  Free Office WebApps sync with your SkyDrive account, so you can access, view, edit and share your documents, spreadsheets and other files from any internet-connected device running a supported browser.

The other Office editions available through volume licensing are: Office Standard and Professional Plus.

The first version of Microsoft Office was introduced in 1990 and after more than 20 years of developing there have been introduced many file types and data formats in them (Office 95, Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010). Some are still used by current versions, but some came to be obsolete.