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. It was officially revealed on Maand was the 12th version of Microsoft Office.
Microsoft Office 2007 (codenamed Office 12 ) is an office suite 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.