

Under Update and upgrade > Update and upgrade options, select the options that match your requirements, as necessary. Under Installation, select the options that match your requirements, as necessary, and then select Next. Under Language, select the primary language, and then select Next.

Under Apps, use the toggles to determine which apps will be installed, and then select Next. Under Update channel, Office LTSC 2021 Perpetual Enterprise will be listed as the Update Channel. Under Products, select the products that you want to deploy. Microsoft also rebranded most of their standard Office 365 editions into Microsoft 365 to emphasize their current inclusion of products and services.For more information, see Choose between the 64-bit or 32-bit version of Office. In 2017, revenue from Office 365 overtook conventional license sales. Since Office 2013, Microsoft has promoted Office 365 as the primary means of obtaining Microsoft Office: it allows the use of the software and other services on a subscription business model, and users receive feature updates to the software for the lifetime of the subscription, including new features and cloud computing integration that are not necessarily included in the "on-premises" releases of Office sold under conventional license terms. Office on the web is a version of the software that runs within a web browser. Microsoft also maintains mobile apps for Android and iOS. The original, and most widely used version, is the desktop version, available for PCs running the Windows and macOS operating systems. Office is produced in several versions targeted towards different end-users and computing environments. It contains a word processor ( Word), a spreadsheet program ( Excel) and a presentation program ( PowerPoint), an email client ( Outlook), a database management system ( Access), and a desktop publishing app ( Publisher). In 2012, Softpedia reported that Office was being used by over a billion people worldwide.

Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, Object Linking and Embedding data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Initially a marketing term for an office suite (bundled set of productivity applications), the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft.
