In addition, it also includes Office Sharepoint Server 2007, a major revision of the Office application server platform, providing 'Excel Services' to support real-time sharing of Excel worksheets on multiple machines, and can be viewed and edited on web pages. Groove was originally developed by Groove Networks and later acquired by Microsoft in 2005. The most important of these is Groove, a collaboration and communication suite for small businesses. Office 2007 also includes new applications and server tools.
Many of the important new features of Office 2007, the most notable of which is its new graphical user interface called Ribbon, which replaces the interface of Office’s original menus and toolbars.
Known as Office 12 at the beginning of the test cycle, it was scheduled to be delivered to volume-licensed customers on November 30, 2006, and is scheduled to be officially released to retail customers along with Windows Vista on January 30, 2007. The 2007 Microsoft Office System, or Microsoft Office 2007, is an office software suite developed by Microsoft for the Windows Vista operating system.
