Office Product Name Changes

The lineup of Office-branded products changed with the release of the Office 2010 suite. In earlier versions, many products included the prefix “Office” in their full names (for example, Microsoft Office Visio 2007). All of these products drop the prefix in their 2010 versions. Microsoft calls the Office suite itself Microsoft Office with an edition name (e.g., Microsoft Office Professional Plus).

Several products in the 2007 lineup have been discontinued but are partly or completely subsumed by 2010 products. For example, SharePoint Server 2010 includes functions of Office Business Scorecard Manager, Office Forms Server, and some parts of Office PerformancePoint Server, while Project Server 2010 provides functions of Office Project Portfolio Server.

2007 Product Name	2010 Product Name
Office Access	Access
Office Business Scorecard Manager	(Discontinued)
Office Communications Server	Lync Server
Office Communicator	Lync
Office Excel	Excel