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Office System Products

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The Office System is the brand for a line of applications developed by Microsoft’s Business Division and aimed at business users. The full names of Office System products include the prefix “Microsoft Office,” as in, “Microsoft Office Word 2007.” Microsoft calls the Office suite itself “Microsoft Office” with an edition name (e.g., “Microsoft Office Professional”).

Listed below are the Office System products other than the suite, with acronyms sometimes used for those products at Microsoft:

  • Access
  • Business Scorecard Manager
  • Communications Server (OCS)
  • Communicator
  • Excel
  • Forms Server (a SharePoint Server edition, now discontinued)
  • Groove
  • Groove Server
  • InfoPath
  • Live Meeting
  • OneNote
  • Outlook
  • Outlook with Business Contact Manager
  • PerformancePoint Server
  • PowerPoint
  • Project
  • Project Portfolio Server
  • Project Server
  • Publisher
  • SharePoint Designer (now a free product)
  • SharePoint Server (MOSS, for Microsoft Office SharePoint

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