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 the 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the 32-bit versions of Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 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. It is not officially supported on Windows 11. Office 2007 is compatible Windows XP SP2 or later, Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 10. Office 2007 is incompatible with Windows 2000 and earlier versions 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, shortly after the completion 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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