The new formats are intended to facilitate the sharing of information between programs, reduce the size of documents, improve security and enable new recovery scenarios. MS Office 2007 also introduced Office Open XML file formats as the default file formats in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. MS Office 2007 introduced a new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface, which uses ribbons and an Office menu instead of toolbars and menu bars. MS Office 2007 was preceded by MS Office 2003 and succeeded by MS Office 2010. Office 2007 was released to manufacturing on 11-03-2006 MS Office 2007 was subsequently made available to volume license customers on 11-30-2006, and later to retail on 01-30-2007, the same respective release dates of Windows Vista. MS Office 2007 (codenamed Office 12) is a version of MS Office, a family of office suites and productivity software for Windows, published and developed by Microsoft.
