Microsoft created it's wonderful suite of software programmes, MS OFFICE... Its a combination of applications which Microsoft had anticipated would be extremely useful for businesses and they were right... Word, Excel and PowerPoint are the pillars of MS Office and MS Office is the flagship of Microsoft Company. No doubt, there is no other office suite that competes closely with MS Office. At least, I am not aware of any.
So, before the computers, there were type-writers in the offices. In terms of business users, computers first eliminated the type-writres in terms of use and technology. Thats what applications like MS WORD did.
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