Selecting the version of Microsoft Office and how to activate it. Compare Microsoft Office versions

The most famous and multifunctional is rightfully recognized microsoft package Office that offers whole line all kinds of functions in one application. The most common today are the 2007 and 2010 versions. And today we will consider how these two versions differ, what innovations and improvements are present in the later version, and what features of work in the Microsoft Office package in the Windows 7 64 operating system.

Features of the Microsoft Office suite

Before considering the main differences between two versions of the same program, you need to understand what this program is and what features of work exist in its environment. We will look at the example of working in a 64-bit OS Windows 7. What is included in Office 2007 and 2010?

• MS Word. The office contains a powerful text editor with which you can create documents of varying complexity. It takes unconditional superiority among all other editors. MS Word 2007 and 2010 work with files that have the .docx extension (in earlier versions - .doc).

• MS Excel is a spreadsheet processor containing a variety of functions for creating spreadsheets. This component in the "Office" system occupies a leading position in the modern market. Works with files with .xlsx permission, in earlier versions of the program - .xls.

• MS Outlook, which is a personal communicator that includes a manager email, address book, calendar, task scheduler and some other features and add-ons.

• MS Power Point is one of the important components of the “Office” system, which allows you to create presentations of any complexity.

• MS Access is an application that allows you to create and manage databases.

• MS InfoPath is a special application that allows you to collect various data and simplifies their management.

• MS Publisher is one of the standard program components for creating and preparing publications.

• MS Picture Manager is an application that allows you to work with many extensions of graphic files.

There are a number of other components that may differ in different versions of the program and their number directly depends on how much full version the program was purchased by the user.

Differences between MS Office 2010 and 2007

Below we present an incomplete list of differences and capabilities of the Office 2007 and 2010 packages that are available for work in 64-bit Windows 7. We are considering only professional packages that contain the largest number of all kinds of innovations and extensions.

• Editing MS Office documents in a supported web browser. This function was available in an earlier version of the program, in a later version it became possible to work through the Office Web Apps document editor.
• The 2010 version introduced the broadcast slide show feature. Thanks to this, it is possible to carry out powerPoint presentation straight from the browser.
• The work with meetings and the schedule was synchronized, effective collaboration was optimized in all available components.
• Power Point now has the ability to edit video directly in the program, excel tables allow you to work with data that comes from millions of sources and is located on millions of lines. The text editor Word has new adjustment options, new tools for managing colors.
• Work latest versions optimized for 64-bit Windows 7.

And these are not all the differences - as the developers themselves note on the official website, there are more than thirty differences between the two versions of the program.

Differences between the Office 2010 user interface and previous versions of Microsoft Office

The functionality of each application in Microsoft Office 2010 has been improved in many areas. After graduation microsoft systems Office 2007 significantly differs from Office 2003 in the appearance of the Ribbon in the user interface for Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Word 2007, and parts of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. User interface consisting of a collection of menus and panels instruments has been replaced by a single tape structure. In Microsoft Office 2010, the Ribbon has been retained and additional functionality has been introduced.

The Ribbon is now available in all Office 2010 edition products, so switching between applications is seamless. In addition to the ribbon changes, the background in Office 2010 releases is now gray by default, unlike office versions 2007, in which the background was blue. For more information about the changes in Office 2010, see .

Difference table

The following table describes the differences in the interface elements between Office 2010, Office 2007, and Office 2003.

see also

Product and feature changes in Office 2010

Product and feature changes in Office 2010

This section contains a list of articles that describe new, changed, and removed product features in Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Project 2010, and Microsoft Visio 2010. Each article also describes product-specific migration issues.

Changes in Office 2010

This article provides a list of changes in Microsoft Office 2010 compared to Microsoft Office 2007, and information on how to perform the migration.

New opportunities

Changes

What has been removed

New opportunities

For information about what's new in Microsoft Office 2010 that is useful for IT administrators, see What's New for IT Pros in the 2010 Release of Microsoft Office.

Changes

This section summarizes the changes in Office 2010.

The functionality of the Insert Picture task pane and Picture Gallery in Office 2010 is largely unchanged. But the user interface has been redesigned to make it easier to find and insert pictures from the Internet. Although the user can still upload a picture and work with a locally saved collection of pictures, the need for local storage pictures decreases. This is because Office users have become more efficient with the power of the Internet and want to immediately capture and use images from the Internet without saving them for later use.

Can download pictures from website (/ fwlink /? linkid \u003d 202125 & clcid \u003d 0x419). The uploaded images are then made available for local (offline) personal use.

Important!

User can use pictures for personal use in accordance with Microsoft Service Agreement (Possibly in English) (/ fwlink /? linkid \u003d 204168 & clcid \u003d 0x419) (Possibly in English). Also see the doc on use of copyrighted Microsoft content (Possibly in English) (/ fwlink /? linkid \u003d 204172 & clcid \u003d 0x419) (Possibly in English).

HTML editor

The HTML editor has been updated for use with Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Microsoft InfoPath. New features include support different browsers, XHTML and common editor support.

Outdated algorithms for representing brightness and contrast

Da Vinci's brightness and contrast representation algorithms have replaced legacy algorithms and are now available through the Office UI and Manager. Outdated algorithms luma and contrast representations are still available for backward compatibility. This is a key architectural change.

The user interface and Office Manager provide access to other photo editing algorithms in addition to brightness and contrast presentation algorithms. With this change, users can improve their photo editing results. If a photo does not contain Office 2007 brightness or contrast changes, the visual fidelity of Office 2007 brightness and contrast is preserved in Office 2010. If a photo contains Office 2007 brightness or contrast changes, Office 2010 improves the results because old effects are converted to new effects.

Language options

Language settings replace language settings and help users browse language packs and determine if the required spelling and keyboard checkers are enabled. Added direct links to internet locations from where users can get additional funds... New functionality is also provided such as the tooltip language.

What has been removed

This section provides information about the removed features of Office 2010.

Insert picture task pane and picture collection

Deprecated functionality of the Insert Picture task pane (in client applications) and the stand-alone picture collection application:

 Simplified drop-down menu items for the "Search in" command (replaced by a checkbox to include or exclude Internet content) and "Media types" (photo, illustration, audio and video. The level of detail for file extensions has been removed);

• Thumbnail icons showing internet content and pictures downloaded from the media CD have been removed.

Deprecated functionality of the Insert Picture task pane only:

Deprecated functionality of the standalone picture collection app only:

 automatic import of local content into a collection of pictures;

 linking a folder with a specific collection (for use with automatic import);

 "Search by Similar Style" in the local user picture content library;

 function of sending pictures to e-mail recipients;

 "List" and "Details" views for pictures (only thumbnail view is saved);

 deleting a picture from a specific collection.

Character Input Add-in: East Asian Versions of Office 2010

The character input custom add-in has been removed from Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, and Microsoft Access 2010 in the East Asian versions of Office 2010.

This change applies to the language editions shown in the following table.

This feature has been removed because users can easily perform similar actions with a simple feature accessed via the button Add symbol in Group Symbol in the tab Insert or by using an input method editor (IME).

InterConnect

InterConnect has been removed from Office 2010. It provided Japanese users with a unique electronic business card that could be secured and delivered. This capability was available as part of Microsoft Office Ultimate, InterConnect Retail SKU, and Microsoft Outlook + InterConnect Retail SKU.

Office Startup Assistant

Disabled by default in Microsoft Office 2007, the Create New Office Document component from the menu Start, or the Office Startup Assistant (OSA) component has been completely removed from Microsoft Office 2010. Users can no longer manually enable this component in the menu Start by using an Office 2010 customization or opening a dialog to create a new document in an Office 2010 application.

This component has been replaced by the ability to create a new Office document for each Office 2010 application from Microsoft Office Backstage mode by clicking Create a and the subsequent creation of the document. In addition, this enhanced functionality is compatible with the 64-bit version of Office 2010.

Office Diagnostics

Office Diagnostics, also called Customer Watson, removed for everyone office applications 2010. Due to the shift in resources, the focus should be on analysis and reporting components that have proven to be beneficial for other working groups. Users should now run the recovery utility from Control Panel.

Workspaces for documents

The following features have been removed from Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft OneNote 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, and Microsoft Outlook 2010.

 Ability to create workspaces for documents.

 Ability to create shared attachments in Outlook.

 Ability to invoke actions for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation using the Document Management pane.

• Functionality that allows you to synchronize a local copy of a document with a copy on the server.

Users no longer have access to the following features in the section Service parameters dialog box Parameter<приложение> : Create a workspace for documents, Document Information Management and Document management... The sync feature has been replaced by an implicit cache that allows users to continue editing in the document workspace even when the document is offline, and automatically sync changes to Windows SharePoint Services the next time they connect to the network. An implicit cache prevents the user from having trouble choosing the right option.

Microsoft XML Parser 5 Parser Support

Office 2010 does not support the Microsoft XML Parser 5 (MSXML5) parser. When downloading Office 2010 existing solutions will not instantiate MSXML5 objects. Port your code to Microsoft XML Parser 6 (MSXML6) or managed code that uses the .NET Framework.

Note.

MSXML6 does not support digital signature code. For more information on MSXML6, see the article on building MSXML Applications (Possibly in English) (/ fwlink /? linkid \u003d 187366 & clcid \u003d 0x419) (Possibly in English).

Migration progress information

When planning your migration to Office 2010, check out the new, changed, and remote capabilities for Office 2010. Also, see the articles sections Migration progress informationlisted below in the list is used Document

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Over the past couple of years, the largest software developers have somehow been more engaged in optimizing existing products than developing something fundamentally new. This is a common occurrence, since this is the most "fundamentally new", as a rule, it always needs refinement.

Here are some illustrative examples. Mac OS X 10.6 was released by Apple under the auspices of improving stability and reliability, and at the same time a total transition to 64-bit computing (which, in general, earlier Mac OS X was capable of). And before that, Mac OS X 10.5 was introduced, containing several hundred innovations. IN Adobe Photoshop CS5 added several new features, but at the same time, Adobe was fine-tuning the 64-bit version of the program (and Premier Pro CS5 and After Effects CS5 were generally released only in 64-bit), improved support for accelerating work through a video card, and also improved work with 3D. All of this was first introduced in CS4, but was "polished" in CS5. In our Windows 7 review, we wrote that this OS is Windows Vista as it should be.

It remains to look directly at the hero of this material - a set of Microsoft Office applications.

Remember Office 2007? More precisely, how did it appear, and many people got their eyes on their foreheads because of the new ribbon (Ribbon in the original naming of Microsoft) interface? On the Web, half-joking stories even began to appear about how Office 2007 acted as a "torture instrument" - after it, any secretary perceived the "unusual" OpenOffice as manna from heaven. How much noise was there about the new OpenXML format?

Microsoft released not only fundamentally new windowsbut also a brand new Office. After that, a refined and debugged Windows 7 was presented, and now we are dealing with a refined "office" - Office 2010. Of course, the ribbon interface has not been done anywhere. But in three years everyone got used to it - this time, and the programmers of the software giant allowed it to be configured much more flexibly - that's two. But we will talk about this later, but for now let's figure out which versions of MS Office 2010 are available on the market.

Versions

Microsoft loves to omit version numbers and confuse this issue. So, after Word 3.0, Word 6.0 was immediately released, Windows 7 is based on the version 6.1 kernel, and Office 13 never existed, although Office 2010 is still known as Office 14. Microsoft just skipped the number 13, while Office 2007 was "twelfth." This pass is explained by a banal fear of the number 13 - the largest software company in the world turned out to be superstitious.

In total, we counted seven delivery options for Microsoft Office 2010: Starter, Home and Student, Home and Business, Standard, Professional, Professional Academic, Professional Plus. They differ from each other by the programs included in the kit.

The simplest option is Starter. It does not officially go to retail, and will only be installed on computers (laptops) by OEM manufacturers. At the same time, it does not provide any trial period for 30 days, however, the two programs included in the package (Word and Excel) are severely limited in their functionality (for example, you cannot flexibly customize the ribbon interface, SmartArt effects are not supported, there is no formula editor Microsoft Equation, no peer review mode, etc.) and their bottom right corner will show ads. Generally Office 2010 Starter is made to completely replace Microsoft Works, which has already been discontinued.

In other versions, such "special features" are not provided. Home and Student, besides Word and Excel, also contains PowerPoint and OneNote. Home and Business adds Outlook to this list. Standard has one more program - Publisher. Professional and Professional Academic are bundled with Access 2010 in addition to the six applications listed. Professional Academic is a special education option and will not be available for retail.

Well, the most "professional" office remains - Professional Plus. It contains all the Professional programs, plus Communicator, InfoPath, and SharePoint Workspace (formerly known as Groove). All three of these programs are focused on joint work with documents and will be useful primarily in enterprises.

As for the cost, it varies from 2500 to 3000 rubles for Office 2010 Home and Student and up to 15 thousand rubles for Professional Plus. Also, all applications from the Microsoft Office suite can be purchased separately. It must be added that they are sold separately microsoft programs Visio and Project.

It remains only to mention the 64-bit version of Office 2010. Microsoft presented this version of its package for the first time. At the same time, the company strongly recommends using 32-bit applications. Why then were 64-bit ones released? For testing. These are some of the first steps in this direction. We are not promised unstable work, but some of the functions will only be available in 32-bit implementation. Besides, not all external plugins are capable of working with 64-bit programs. The advantage of more "bit" options is the ability to address more than 2 GB random access memory every application. Only Excel and Access users will really benefit from this, where really bulky files can open. Nowhere is it written about using 64-bit processor registers to speed up computations. Apparently, this optimization is to be expected in future versions of Office.

Despite Microsoft's policy to reduce the popularity of Windows XP, Office 2010 can still work in it. True, only in the 32-bit version and with the installed Service Pack 3. 64-bit Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP were left behind, but Windows Server 2003 R2 was not. However, there are very few people working in these operating systems. Also supported are Windows Vista (with Service Pack 1 or 2 installed), Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 (R2).

What's new

Now we turn directly to the innovations in Office 2010. We will look at those that are most noticeable in all applications, and also briefly go through some of the changes in the most popular programs.

Microsoft Office Backstage

Perhaps the most notable innovation is the Microsoft Office Backstage menu. Remember every 2007 Office program that got the Ribbon had that big round button with the Microsoft Office logo in the upper left corner? By clicking on it, a menu with some operations was shown, as well as a list of recently open files... Now that button has been replaced with ... no, not a button, but rather a tab named "File". It is made, as it were, part of the ribbon toolbar, but at the same time it is separated from it by a different color.

It is not surprising that this "File" tab was separated from the rest - it does not open a new panel, but completely overlaps the entire window. What appears on the screen is called the Office Backstage. Here you can indeed perform various operations with files, and their list is much wider than the one that was available in the "classic" menu "File" office programs 2003 and earlier.

The Backstage menu is divided into three columns. The left one shows the available operations and menu sections, the center one shows the possible options for the selected item on the left, and the right column is usually used for preview.

Documents once created for a software product Microsoft Office, such as text files Word, Excel spreadsheets, Power Point presentations and others, slightly less popular, are perhaps the most common in the segment of business and household information exchange. And who, if not the developer of the data format, would release the best software for viewing and editing files of this very format?

Today's article is a reflection, we will talk about which version of Microsoft Office to downloadfor your own needs with support for all modern formats and what are the ways to activate this product.

How to choose an office suite for your computer

In search of the most convenient option for using various software, ordinary users, most often, are guided by several basic criteria, which, when grouped, can be presented in the form of a generalized list.

Software characteristics affecting consumer choice:

1. The presence of the entire range of functions necessary for the user in the product.
2. Product price and ease of license activation.
3. Convenience and ease of use, in other words - usability.
4. Nice interface.

The choice of an office suite for a computer is also subject to these rules. Moreover, the question of price, in this case, for many comes to the fore. And since the cost of products from Melkomyagkie (Microsoft) cannot be called attractive for many residents of the post-Soviet countries, we have to look for alternatives in the form of a free office from other developers. The project managed to gain the greatest popularity Openoffice and its independent offshoot - LibreOffice, which, thanks to its friendly and pleasant interface, is increasingly taking the leading positions in many ratings.

But what if the urge to use Microsoft software outweighs the hassle of a free product? What to do if, due to certain technical requirements, the transition to alternative freeware (freely distributed) applications is simply impossible?

To answer this question, let's first let's compare the last five versions of the Microsoft Office product.

Microsoft Office version history and differences

The 2003 product can be considered legendary. This version of the office suite is often compared to the operating system. Windows XP, highlighting the longevity and prevalence of the 2003 office.

This contributed and released patch to support * .docx, * .xlsx and * .pptx formats in Microsoft Office 2003 and XP, archive Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack with which you can download from the file attached to the article: FileFormatConverters... These formats were introduced a little later, so we'll talk about them below.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access didn't get many new features, but the introduction of tablet and stylus support was the right decision in an emerging market touch screens... Although, of course, at that time it did not bring the greatest results, but it was a competent step in strategic development.

Outlook 2003 has been improved in a quality manner. Improvement of the spam filter, refinement of search and support for encodings had a beneficial effect on increasing the comfort when working with an email client.
In addition, the office kit adds new program - OneNote, which later becomes free and available for download from the company's official website.

Bill Gates and the company are still trying to make the office interface more attractive, but the need for radical changes is felt more and more urgently.

Microsoft Office 2007

There were three important updates in the 2007 package, let's highlight them:

1. It was in the release of Office 2007 that ribbon interface Ribbon... Microsoft was far from the first to use this method of placing functional controls, but this is where we saw a full-fledged transition to this kind of interface with its full-scale integration. Further, Microsoft Fluent Interface found its development in each subsequent version of the Microsoft Office package and the Windows operating system (as a vivid example - Windows Explorer, which was already discussed in the article Open Windows 10 Explorer from This PC).
2. Continuing its turf battle, Microsoft rolls out a series of storage formats electronic documents - Office Open XML... Extensions of new data types became * .docx, * .xlsx and * .pptx... Responding to the criticism of experts about the lack of compatibility of new formats for old applications, the IT giant is releasing the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack patch, which adds OOXML support to software products in the early years of release, the link to which we have given above.
3. And finally after leaving Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 (second service pack) Melkomyagkies now have built-in format support OpenDocument, that is, files with extensions * .odt (text documents), * .ods (tables), * .odp (presentations), * .odg (graphic documents) and their derivatives. This means that now users of the Microsoft Office suite can work with files created in OpenOffice, LibreOffice and other alternative products without prior conversion.

The company begins intensive work on user interface your software.
New trends in it-fashion are forcing designers and programmers to spend more and more energy on giving the appearance of applications a modern style.

In addition to improving the design, an important update was a new feature that allows the program to receive remote access to materials and organize the simultaneous editing of documents by several authors through online service Office Web Apps... This step was taken, first of all, to keep the corporate client market, smoothly drifting into the hands of free software developers.

Also in the 2010 office, some new features of the Excel component were announced: Slicer and more interesting Spreadlines, which allow you to add miniature graphs directly inside table cells.

Work continues on the application interface, the appearance of the program is drawn in accordance with the general Microsoft policy reflected in the interface Metro UI Windows 8 and Windows 10 systems.

Close integration with the OneDrive cloud storage service has been carried out (we have already touched on the concept of cloud storage in the post Increasing space in the cloud storage Yandex Disk +32 GB), previously called SkyDrive, where all documents created in the application are saved, and the messaging and calling program via the Internet - Skype, the full rights to which Microsoft acquired on May 10, 2011 for $ 8.5 billion. These functions, I must say, did not receive great popularity among users, but contributed to the continuation of the interweaving of the company's products among themselves.

Of the more obvious advantages of the new version of the package, we can note the appearance in the 2013 office of the ability to view and edit (!) Files PDF, as well as some improvements to Word and Excel applications. For example, the function of placing online videos in a sheet has been added, and on the Design tab in Word it has become possible to set styles for the entire document at once.

But we will highlight the following two points as serious disadvantages:

1. Lack of microsoft support Office 2013 operating system Windows XP. This seriously undermined the attractiveness of the product for a large number of users.
2. The inability in Outlook 2013 to download only message headers via IMAP protocol without their full content. Especially strange is the full download of messages from the Spam tab, and the autoloading of attachments (files from messages) of all incoming messages.

The main product changes in 2015 from the company of the same name concerned the drawing of the interface and the continuation of integration with the Internet oneDrive services and Skype.

Minor improvements and improvements were received by the Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications.

And although Microsoft did not hesitate to state that " 2016 office was written practically from scratch", call Microsoft Office 2016 new version product after a close acquaintance with it at all do not want. It is rather improved office 13th year.

Microsoft Office activation methods

Needless to say, after the choice suitable version office and its installation in a reliable way activation will be purchase license key... However, two unpleasant surprises await us here:

1. Often, the version of a particular product we are interested in is simply impossible to purchase due to its withdrawal from sale by the developer.
2. The prices for software by the standards of some countries are very high, if we take into account the value of the average earnings in the state.

In this regard, many PC users go to the use of unlicensed copies of the software.

Below we briefly review the main ways to activate Microsoft Office:

Exploits for activation

Let's start, of course, by using exploits.

Exploit is a piece of code or a separate program that exploits a vulnerability in an application in order to perform actions unauthorized by the developer, for example, obtaining privileged rights, activating a product, disrupting the functioning of an attacked object

One of the most popular exploits for Microsoft's office suite is a library change MSO.dlllocated in the directory

C: \\ Program Files \\ Common Files \\ Microsoft Shared \\ Office10 \\

The essence of the method is to change the file with a hex editor in the line

8B 81 78 01 00 00 C3

Here you need to replace the value 78 on the value 84 to make it work

8B 81 84 01 00 00 C3

Have this method there are two main drawbacks.

• Firstly, if you download a ready-made file for replacement, there is a chance that you can run into a malicious file, simply a virus.
• Secondly, the use of exploits quite often leads to unexpected errors and limitations in the operation of software, for example, after editing a file MSO.dll, it is quite possible that the office suite will no longer be able to install updates.
• Thirdly, the vulnerability of the MSO library has been fixed in new versions of the office and it will not be possible to activate the program in this way.

Multiple Activation Keys

Everything is much simpler here: we go to the search engine or directly to the site where the keys are distributed, copy the key from the browser page and paste it into the Office activation field.
Then it all depends on the type of product and the state of the product we found serial number, if the key is suitable for online activation, just click the Next button and use the activated product (this, of course, does not mean that the copy has become licensed, it is still considered pirated). If the key runs out of attempts online activationthen we can try to hold activation by phone.

If the product provides for offline registration without activation on Microsoft servers, then the key can be entered even without an Internet connection.

The main disadvantages of this method include the fact that to find working key It is often very difficult, and besides, if suddenly the key is blocked even after successful activation, you may well be left with a non-working program that will need to be reactivated, it also happens.

KMS server for activation

Activation of Microsoft products (and not only) using kms servers is gaining popularity.

KMS (Key Management Service) - a key management service that allows the licensee (holder of the purchased license) to activate and control software on working machines in the network without connecting to the licensor's servers (license sellers)

In most cases, for private use, a kms server is installed locally on the user's computer, and all that is required for activation is to press a couple of buttons in the program window.

The method is quite reliable, but it also has its drawbacks.

• First, KMS activation is required repeat at regular intervals... It is also possible to add a kms server to Windows startup using one of the methods described in the article Startup. Adding Applications to Windows Startup, but 100% guarantees that activation will be successful in the background cannot be given.
• Secondly, the success of the activation process via kms may depend on various factors: administrator rights for a user account, the presence on the computer of the libraries necessary for the activator to work, the availability of network ports through which the server works, and so on.

Microsoft Office 2007 Blue Edition and Pink Edition

Based on the foregoing, I would like to have an ideal product with the following characteristics:

In search of such a program, many of us stumble upon distributions that have a name, or Microsoft Office 2007 Pink Edition.

According to those who upload such software to the network, this version of the office has all the capabilities of the 2007 office, is not burdened with add-ons from OneDrive and Skype and, at the same time, does not need to be hacked.
Simply, again, if you trust what they write on the Internet, mythical Microsoft Office 2007 Blue Edition is a special version of the office suite designed for corporate clients that does not require entering a key, activating and other actions to remove restrictions on the functionality of the application.

For greater persuasiveness, information is provided that the product Blue Edition not sold in retail chains. At the same time, the program works quite quickly, and its installation is possible on all modern OS versions from the software giant Microsoft: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10.

In fact, there are no primary sources confirming the existence of corporate editions that do not require activation. There is no facts or evidence of the release of such distributions from any major company in the world. So where did the disk images with such software come from then?

In his article Office Customization Tool (or Blue Edition myth)user under nickname Krokoz described in some detail the method of creating such assemblies of the Microsoft Office program using the Office Customization Tool.

So, the Blue Edition is the usual assembly with sewn-in key (activator) and hidden settings from the user to initiate a silent installation.

In this article, we examined the main changes and differences between the versions of the Microsoft Office suite, touched on the methods of activating the program. And the main choice: what to use and what to pay or not to pay money for - each of us makes independently.
After all, what difference does it make to who released the program if it fully meets our needs?

The article will show compatibility different versions "Microsoft Office" with different versions of "Windows".

The software package " Microsoft Office"Over time has been released in several different versions, as, in principle, the operating system itself" Windows". In this regard, users ask which version text editor “Word”Will be better for“ Windows 7/8/10 / XP» — 2007 , 2010 , 2013 , 2017 or 2003 ? Let's try to answer this question in our review.

Which “Word” (2007, 2010, 2013, 2017 or 2003) is better for “Windows 7/8/10 / XP”?

We immediately note two nuances:

• First, support for “ Word 2007”And“ Windows XP"Terminated by the company itself" Microsoft". Therefore, it is best to upgrade to a later operating system, as well as a text editor, starting with version 2007 .
• Secondly, the choice of an operating system, like the choice of a text editor, is a matter of taste for the user himself. Someone will like the design of one version of the editor more, someone will prefer the capabilities of this or that version " Windows". In this case, it is difficult to say which editor and for which operating system is best for you.

But you can see the compatibility of different versions " Microsoft Office" from different versions operating systems on this picture:

Compatibility of different versions of "Microsoft Office" with different versions of operating systems

As we see, for example, “ Word 2007"Will be compatible with all versions of" Windows", and " Word 365" - only with " Windows 7" and higher. Of course, not all versions of software packages and OS are presented here, but, in general, you can have a clear idea of \u200b\u200bthe compatibility of some with others.

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