Microsoft Office 95

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Microsoft Office 95
Developer(s) Microsoft
Initial releaseAugust 24, 1995;28 years ago (1995-08-24) [1]
Final release
7.0b / October 7, 1999;24 years ago (1999-10-07) [2]
Operating system Windows NT 3.51 or later [3]
Platform IA-32
Predecessor Microsoft Office 4.3 (1994)
Successor Microsoft Office 97 (1996)
Standard(s) OLE 2.0 [4]
Type Office suite
License Proprietary commercial software
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Microsoft Office 95 (version 7.0) [lower-alpha 1] is a major release of Microsoft Office, released by Microsoft on August 24, 1995. [5] It is the successor to both Office 4.2 and 4.3. It is officially supported on Windows NT 3.51 through Windows Me. [3]

Contents

Support for Microsoft Office 95 ended on December 31, 2001. [6] It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows NT 3.51 RTM–SP4.

Features

Microsoft Office 95 includes six applications: Word (a word processor), Excel (a spreadsheet editor), PowerPoint (a presentation program), Access (a database management system), Schedule+ (a time management app) and Binder (a program for binding the work of the mentioned apps together). The CD-ROM version includes Microsoft Bookshelf.

Previously, Microsoft had released Office 4.2 for Windows NT for several architectures, [7] which included 32‑bit Word 6.0 for Windows NT and Excel 5.0 for Windows NT, [8] but PowerPoint 4.0 and the Office Manager were 16‑bit. With Office 95, all components in the suite were 32-bit. All the Office 95 programs are OLE 2-enabled, meaning that they allow interoperability between themselves and other applications that support the protocol. Binder uses this protocol to bind OLE objects together. [4]

Office 95 moves the version number of its applications to 7.0 to match Word's version number. Other components bear the same version numbers to show that they are contemporaries, although their predecessors are not version 6.0. The previous versions of components are Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0, Schedule+ 1.0 and Access 2.0. Binder had no predecessor at the time.

The Office 95 programs utilize a two-tone gradient in the title bar at the top of the window, gradually turning from black at the left side to dark blue at the right. At the time, this was unique to Office 95; no other program running under Windows 95 or Windows NT utilized gradient title bars. This feature was eventually incorporated into the shell of Windows 98 and later, which would allow customizable gradient colors and extend the feature to include dialog boxes as well.

Microsoft Excel contains an easter egg, a hidden Doom –like game called Hall of Tortured Souls crediting the application's writers. [9]

Contemporaneous components

Additional programs have been marketed as "compatible with Microsoft Office 95":

Other contemporaneous Microsoft products include:

Editions

Computer icons of the components Microsoft Office 95 Pro: From left to right, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Schedule+ and Binder Line-up of Office 95 icon.png
Computer icons of the components Microsoft Office 95 Pro: From left to right, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Schedule+ and Binder

Office 95 is available in two versions. They contain the following applications: [11]

Comparison of Office 95 editions
ApplicationStandard EditionProfessional Edition
Word [12] YesYes
Excel [13] YesYes
PowerPoint [14] YesYes
Schedule+ [15] YesYes
Binder [16] YesYes
Access [17] NoYes
Bookshelf [18] NoOn CD-ROM version only

Updates

Two updated versions, 7.0a [19] and 7.0b [2] were released to fix bugs in the applications, including a fix for a screen redraw problem in PowerPoint. The updates could be ordered from Microsoft Support. A downloadable update addresses issues related to the Year 2000 problem. [20]

Issues

Versions 3.0 and 3.5 of the Jet Database Engine, used by Access 7.0 and the later released Access 97 respectively, have a critical issue which makes these versions of Access unusable on a computer with more than 1 GB of memory. [21] While this problem has been fixed for Jet 3.5/Access 97, it has never been fixed for Jet 3.0 or Access 95.

System requirements

Microsoft Office 95 requires a 386DX or higher CPU, 8 MB of RAM, and Windows NT 3.51 for typical use. Regarding hard disk space, compact installations require 28 MB, "typical" installations require 55 MB, and full installations require 88 MB. [3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Microsoft Office for Windows 95

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References

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  13. ↑ Microsoft Excel for Windows 95 - Step by Step. 1995. ISBN   1-55615-825-4.
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