An office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite, is a collection of productivity programs intended to be used by knowledge workers developed by Microsoft Corporation. The components are generally distributed together, have a consistent user interface and usually can interact with each other, sometimes in ways that the operating system would not normally allow.
Typical office suite components
Existing office suites contain wide range of various components. Most typically, the base components include:
- Word processor (Ms-Word)
- Spreadsheet
- Presentation program
Less common components of office suites include:
- Database
- Graphics suite (raster graphics editor, vector graphics editor, image viewer)
- Desktop publishing software
- Formula editor
- Diagramming software
- Email client
- Communication
- Personal information manager
- Notetaking program
- Groupware
- Project management software
- Web log analysis software
