His next challenge: how to stoke growth in the Office product line--Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint--when his division already has a market share so large (400 million users) that research firms Gartner and IDC don't bother to track it.

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The MS Office suite entails productivity software applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access.

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As for office management software, Microsoft Office Small Business--with its suite of tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook--is still the standard.

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