Microsoft Word is a word processor. A Microsoft operating system is called Windows.
In school teachers there are a educational software like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and demas programs that help to the student to study entre other thinghs.
Microsoft's product "Project Planner" is used to set up various graphs and table charts for jobs, school, and for presentations. It is an extension to Microsoft's famous software call Excel.
Main program to control the whole computer is a system software, also called operating system. But to understand what any single device says a system software needs small program called a device driver, which is particular for each single device. A device without a driver driver can't properly work with a computer.
The first operating system or software is widely considered to be the program ENIAC, which was created in the 1940s by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering. ENIAC was the first large-scale electronic general-purpose computer and was used to solve complex calculations for the US military. The program used a variety of different software components, including a control program and an arithmetic unit. ENIAC was an important milestone in the development of software and was the first program to be able to manipulate data stored in memory. It was also the first program to introduce the concept of a stored program, which allowed for faster and more efficient computing.
Microsoft Acess... To the person who wrote excel that's used for spreadsheets which is different from a database.
Marketing. Apple charged a lot more for its system, which arguably was better. Apple focused on the school market while Microsoft forcused on the business market. That's why something like 90% of computers run on Microsoft's operating systems.
I use XNA Game Studio. If you are still in high school or college, you can get it for free from microsoft. Just get your school administrator to register a www.dreamspark.com.
Microsoft's School of the Future was created in 2006.
The advantages of using Microsoft software are that it is widespread in school, business, and elsewhere. Additionally, Microsoft software is very user friendly, and has a small learning curve.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen met as teenagers at Lakeside School. They later went on to found the software company Microsoft in 1975.
The four characteristics of an operating system that falls under a commercial license are: the software does not have a warranty, it is free to distribute to users. Meaning it can be used for an organization, or school without having to buy the software multiple times. It is free to modify as the user permits, and distribute.
A Microsoft "Academic" license is a single user license. It is intended for educational purposes (school students..), and was introduced as a cheap alternative for parents to buy, so their children could use the latest software and stop missing out on new features, etc. It is a great alternative to parents, since it can save them buying an expensive, full priced, (usually 3-user) software license. - Matt. AUSTRALIA