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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