Also included is Office SharePoint Server 2007, a major revision to the server platform for Office applications, which supports Excel Services, a client-server architecture for supporting Excel workbooks that are shared in real time between multiple machines, and are also viewable and editable through a web page. Office 2007 includes new applications and server-side tools, including Microsoft Office Groove, a collaboration and communication suite for smaller businesses, which was originally developed by Groove Networks before being acquired by Microsoft in 2005. It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Professional 圆4 Edition, Windows Server 2003 SP1, the 圆4 editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista versions below SP1 as the following version, Microsoft Office 2010 will only support Windows XP 32-bit SP3 or later, Windows Server 2003 32-bit SP2 or later and Windows Vista SP1 or later. Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, or a later version of Windows. The new formats are intended to facilitate the sharing of information between programs, improve security, reduce the size of documents, and enable new recovery scenarios. Office 2007 also introduced Office Open XML file formats as the default file formats in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Office 2007 introduced a new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface, which uses ribbons and an Office menu instead of menu bars and toolbars.

The Mac OS X equivalent, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, was released on January 15, 2008. The ninth major release of Office for Windows, Office 2007 was preceded by Office 2003 and succeeded by Office 2010. It was released to manufacturing on Novemit was subsequently made available to volume license customers on November 30, 2006, and later to retail on January 30, 2007, the same respective release dates of Windows Vista. Microsoft Office 2007 (codenamed Office 12 ) is a version of Microsoft Office, a family of office suites and productivity software for Windows, developed and published by Microsoft. English, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

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