???? – 2017retired
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“Dubbed, loved, and eventually absorbed by its own successor — rest easy, senpai.”
“It gave us the ribbon. We complained, then couldn't live without it.”
Released to manufacturing on November 3, 2006 and hitting retail in January 2007, Office 2007 (codenamed Office 12) was the twelfth version of Microsoft's office suite and a genuine reinvention of it. It swapped decades of menu bars and toolbars for the Fluent User Interface, ribbons and an Office menu that people initially grumbled about and then never gave up. It also made Office Open XML the default file format in
It ran happily from Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 all the way through Windows 10 v1607 and Windows Server 2016, and was the last version of Office to support those older platforms. By 2017 its run came to a close, not with a scandal but with the quiet dignity of software that had simply done its job. Every document saved as .docx since is its continuing memoir.
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“Dubbed, loved, and eventually absorbed by its own successor — rest easy, senpai.”
“Gchat by any name, we typed on until the end.”
“U-H-O — it sought you, found you, and finally signed off.”