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Diseña y edita de forma profesional con Canva. Mejora imágenes, convierte archivos PDF, agrega textos a videos y más. Tenemos una gran variedad de funciones ingeniosas que llevarán tu contenido a otro nivel, con solo unos clics.

Canva es una web de diseño gráfico y composición de imágenes para la comunicación fundada en 2012, y que ofrece herramientas online para crear tus propios diseños, tanto si son para ocio como si son profesionales.

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Canva es una herramienta en línea que permite crear diseños gráficos de manera sencilla y sin necesidad de tener experiencia en diseño. Ofrece una amplia variedad de plantillas, elementos gráficos y herramientas de edición para diseñar fácilmente desde publicaciones en redes sociales hasta presentaciones y material impreso.
facilita la creación de diseños atractivos de forma rápida y sin complicaciones. Además, cuenta con una amplia biblioteca de imágenes, iconos, fuentes y herramientas de edición que permiten personalizar cada diseño según las necesidades y gustos de cada usuario. Es una herramienta versátil que se utiliza tanto a nivel personal como profesional, siendo una opción ideal para crear contenido visual de alta calidad de manera eficiente.

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Canva es una plataforma en línea que te permite diseñar una amplia variedad de materiales visuales de forma sencilla y sin necesidad de tener conocimientos avanzados en diseño gráfico. Puedes crear desde publicaciones para redes sociales, banners, tarjetas de presentación, hasta presentaciones y mucho más. Es una herramienta muy útil para personas que desean crear contenido visual de manera rápida y profesional.

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QRCode Monkey - El generador de código QR gratuito para crear códigos QR personalizados con Logotipo

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QRCode Monkey - El generador de código QR gratuito para crear códigos QR personalizados con Logotipo

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Crea códigos QR con logotipo, color y diseño personalizados, gratis. Este generador de códigos QR ofrece formatos vectoriales gratuitos para obtener la mejor calidad en la impresión.

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QR Code Monkey es una herramienta en línea que te permite generar códigos QR de forma gratuita y sencilla. Para utilizarla, simplemente debes ingresar al sitio web de QR Code Monkey y seguir estos pasos:

1. Selecciona el tipo de contenido que deseas codificar en el código QR, como un enlace URL, texto, número de teléfono, etc.
2. Ingresa el contenido correspondiente en el campo proporcionado.
3. Personaliza el diseño del código QR según tus preferencias, como el color, el tamaño y la forma de los bloques.
4. Una vez personalizado, puedes descargar el código QR generado y utilizarlo en tus proyectos.

Los códigos QR son útiles para dirigir a las personas a sitios web específicos, compartir información de contacto o promocionar productos de manera interactiva. QR Code Monkey facilita la creación de estos códigos de manera rápida y eficiente.

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La aplicación Classroom, desarrollada por Google, es una plataforma educativa que permite a profesores y estudiantes interactuar de manera virtual. Con esta app, los profesores pueden crear clases, asignar tareas, comunicarse con los alumnos y calificar el trabajo de estos de forma organizada y eficiente. Los estudiantes, por su parte, pueden acceder a las tareas asignadas, enviar trabajos, participar en discusiones y estar al tanto de las novedades de sus clases. Classroom facilita la gestión del aprendizaje en línea y promueve la colaboración entre los miembros de la comunidad educativa.

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Padlet es un muro donde nuestras alumnas y alumnos escriben, suben sus trabajos, tareas y archivos en general. Además es una herramienta muy potente para trabajar de manera colaborativa. Una interfaz muy sencilla y muy cómoda visualmente, que nos permite en pocos minutos crear un espacio de aprendizaje.

PADLET es un diario mural o póster interactivo que permite publicar, almacenar y compartir recursos multimedia e informaciones de diferentes fuentes, de manera individual o en colaboración con un grupo de personas.

Padlet es una pizarra colaborativa online que permite guardar y compartir diferentes contenido multimedia como imágenes, videos, audio, presentaciones y archivos desde nuestro equipo o insertando una URL. Tiene muchísimas opciones de personalización.

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Para emprender el aprendizaje de idiomas en Duolingo, lo primero que debes hacer es descargar la aplicación, registrarte e iniciar sesión. Te solicitarán algunos datos e información personal como tu nombre y correo electrónico. Tras este paso, escoges el idioma que quieres aprender y tu lengua nativa.

Para crear una nueva cuenta, haz clic en "Empezar" y sigue las instrucciones para crear tu perfil de Duolingo. También tendrás que elegir qué idioma quieres aprender, cuál será tu meta diaria, si empezarás desde cero o si quieres hacer una Prueba de nivel.

La aplicación para aprender idiomas de Duolingo es la forma más popular en el mundo de aprender idiomas. La misión de la compañía es ofrecer una educación gratuita, divertida y accesible para todos. ¡Aprender con Duolingo es divertido y los estudios demuestran que funciona!

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Tu progreso en Duolingo está dividido en Etapas y cada etapa está dividida en secciones. En cada sección encontrarás una guía con el vocabulario que se va a utilizar.

Etapa 1: Primeros pasos. 10 secciones.

Etapa 2: ¡A explorar! 19 secciones.

Etapa 3. ¡Emprende el viaje! 15 secciones.

Etapa 4: Hacia lo desconocido. 35 secciones.

Etapa 5: Gran avance. 40 secciones.

Etapa 6: Descubrimiento. 39 secciones.

Etapa 7: ¡Un nuevo mundo! 29 secciones.

Como vemos, en total hay 187 secciones. En cada sección encontrarás ejercicios de práctica, cuentos, práctica personalizada (el programa se acuerda de tus fallos) y, al final, la oportunidad de subir de nivel.

Ganando puntos de experiencia

Para avanzar deberás conseguir puntos de experiencia (EXP) completando secciones y avanzando niveles mediante la práctica.

Puedes ganar EXP de varias maneras:

Completar lecciones = 10 EXP (+ un posible EXP extra)

Practicar unidades (solo después de alcanzar el nivel 5 en una unidad) = 10 EXP

Practicar (al presionar en el ícono de la pesa o en la pestaña de vidas) = 10 EXP

Practicar eligiendo "Legendario"= 40 EXP

Subir de nivel una unidad (al presionar el ícono de la llave) = 20 EXP

Prueba de sección = 50 EXP

Prueba de nivel = 100 EXP

Cuentos de Duolingo (disponibles en un número limitado de idiomas)

También puedes completar desafíos. Hay desafíos del día y del mes. Puedes ver los desafíos en la parte derecha de tu pantalla (versión web) o en el icono del cofre del menú inferior en la app de Duolingo.

Además de conseguir puntos de experiencia, cuando vayas completando lecciones y alcances tu meta diaria conseguirás gemas (en la app) o lingots (en la web). Puedes usar tus gemas para obtener varios artículos y potenciadores en la aplicación, como el Protector de racha, recuperar tus vidas, hacer una apuesta de racha...

Duolingo primero presenta el vocabulario y las estructuras gramaticales y después va comprobando los conocimientos mediante distintos tipos de actividades: selección de la imagen correcta, traducción de palabras y oraciones, formación de pares, transcripción de una palabra u oración escuchada, lectura de una palabra/frase en voz alta, selección de traducción correcta, completar huecos...

Cuando respondas correctamente, la barra de progreso de tu práctica se irá completando. Al contrario, cuando falles, se parará (¡o disminuirá!). En la versión app, además, cada día empiezas con 5 vidas y las irás perdiendo cada vez que respondas incorrectamente. Cada lección que practiques restaura una vida.

Las ligas

En las Ligas compites con otros usuarios de Duolingo. Esta función solo está disponible en iOS, Android y en la versión web. A medida que obtengas EXP podrás subir puestos en tu división. Luego, los diez usuarios que tengan la mayor cantidad de EXP semanales pasarán a una división superior donde competirán la semana siguiente. Los diez usuarios que tengan la menor cantidad de EXP semanales bajarán a la división anterior.

Las Ligas semanales comienzan los domingos por la tarde/noche según la zona horaria de tu dispositivo.

Para participar en las ligas debes completar una lección en línea.

Las divisiones de las ligas (en orden) son: Bronce, Plata, Oro, Zafiro, Rubí, Esmeralda, Amatista, Perla, Obsidiana y Diamante

Si necesitas configurar tus notificaciones para las Ligas, puedes hacerlo desde la aplicación. Ve a la pestaña de tu perfil y selecciona Configuración. Desplázate hasta Notificaciones y desactiva o activa las notificaciones para las Ligas.

¿Y si quieres desactivarlas? Puedes desactivar las Ligas desde tu configuración en el sitio web de Duolingo aquí.

Si estás usando la aplicación para iOS y Android, puedes ver las Ligas entre las pestañas en la parte inferior. Si estás usando la versión web, puedes encontrar las posiciones de tu división en la parte superior derecha de tu pantalla.
Si estás usando la versión de Duolingo, puedes ver tu posición en la liga en el menú de la derecha... ... y puedes acceder a la liga en el menú de la izquierda. En la app, la opción de ligas está abajo, en el icono de la insignia.
Desventajas de Duolingo

Duolingo, a pesar de contar ventajas para reforzar el aprendizaje de un idioma, también tiene sus desventajas.

A nivel técnico, sus notificaciones y recordatorios de práctica (que siempre puedes pausar o desactivar desde tu perfil) pueden resultar intrusivas. Además, los ejercicios pueden resultar repetitivos (va cambiando el vocabulario y la dificultad, pero el repertorio de tipos de ejercicios siempre es el mismo).

Por otra parte, las voces utilizadas en Duolingo son robotizadas (muy poco orgánicas, nadie habla un idioma así), la versión en español utiliza español de Hispanoamérica y la variante de inglés es inglés norteamericano.

Por último, en Duolingo no es posible practicar con otras personas (más allá de las ligas), ya que Duolingo sigue el modelo computacional 1 a 1 (la máquina enseña constantemente al alumno/a y se adecúa a este/a).

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Usa Google Tasks para hacer un seguimiento de las tareas pendientes importantes que se sincronizan en todos tus dispositivos. Con Tasks, puedes hacer lo siguiente:

Registrar tareas rápidamente en cualquier lugar y dispositivo
Agregar detalles a tus tareas y crear subtareas
Crear tareas desde productos de Google Workspace como Gmail y el Calendario
Mantenerte al día sobre las fechas límite y las notificaciones

Usa Google Tasks para hacer un seguimiento de las tareas pendientes importantes que se sincronizan en todos tus dispositivos. Con Tasks, puedes hacer lo siguiente: Registrar tareas rápidamente en cualquier lugar y dispositivo. Agregar detalles a tus tareas y crear subtareas.

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Talentbox es una aplicación orientada a reclutar talentos y ayudar a las empresas en el proceso de selección, eligiendo talentos de acuerdo a sus necesidades y requerimientos de manera ágil y automatizada.

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Original author(s)

Brian Acton, Jan Koum

Developer(s)

WhatsApp Inc. ( Facebook, Inc.)

Initial release

January 2009; 11 years ago

Stable release(s) [±]

iOS

2.20.121 / November 10, 2020; 19 days ago [1]

Android

Varies with device / November 10, 2020; 19 days ago [2]

Windows

2.2043.21 / November 1, 2020; 28 days ago [3]

Preview release(s) [±]

Android (Beta)

2.20.202.16 / October 23, 2020; 37 days ago [4]

Operating system

Android, iOS, KaiOS (there are Windows, macOS and web app clients that work only in presence of a connected mobile app client)

Size

132.4 MB (iOS)[6]
28.92 MB (Android)[7]

Type

Instant messaging, VoIP

License

Proprietary software with EULA ("European Region", others)

Website

WhatsApp.com

WhatsApp Messenger, or simply WhatsApp, is an American freeware, cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Facebook, Inc. It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other media. WhatsApp's client application runs on mobile devices but is also accessible from desktop computers, as long as the user's mobile device remains connected to the Internet while they use the desktop app. The service requires users to provide a standard cellular mobile number for registering with the service. In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app targeted at small business owners, called WhatsApp Business, to allow companies to communicate with customers who use the standard WhatsApp client.

The client application was created by WhatsApp Inc. of Mountain View, California, which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for approximately US$ 19.3 billion. It became the world's most popular messaging application by 2015, and has over 2billion users worldwide as of February 2020. It has become the primary means of electronic communication in multiple countries and locations, including Latin America, the Indian subcontinent, and large parts of Europe and Africa.

WhatsApp was founded in by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, former employees of Yahoo!. After leaving Yahoo! in September 2007, they took some time off in South America. At one point, they applied for Facebook jobs but were rejected.

In January 2009, after purchasing an iPhone and realizing the potential of the app industry on the App Store, Koum and Acton began visiting Koum's friend Alex Fishman in West San Jose to discuss a new type of messaging app that would "show statuses next to individual names of the people".[citation needed ] They realized that to take the idea further, they would need an iPhone developer. Fishman visited RentACoder.com, found Russian developer Igor Solomennikov, and introduced him to Koum.

In June 2009, Apple launched push notifications, allowing users to be pinged when they were not using an app. Koum changed WhatsApp so that everyone in the user's network would be notified when a user's status is changed. WhatsApp 2.0 was released with a messaging component and the number of active users suddenly increased to 250,000. Although Acton was working on another startup idea, he decided to join the company. In October 2009, Acton persuaded five former friends at Yahoo! to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and Acton became a co-founder and was given a stake. He officially joined WhatsApp on November 1. After months at beta stage, the application launched in November 2009, exclusively on the App Store for the iPhone. Koum then hired a friend in Los Angeles, Chris Peiffer, to develop a BlackBerry version, which arrived two months later. In 2010, WhatsApp was subject to multiple acquisition offers from Google which were declined.

To cover the cost of sending verification texts to users, WhatsApp was changed from a free service to a paid one. In December 2009, the ability to send photos was added to the iPhone version. By early 2011, WhatsApp was one of the top 20 apps at Apple's U.S. App Store.

In April 2011, Sequoia Capital invested about $8 million for more than 15% of the company, after months of negotiation by Sequoia partner Jim Goetz.

By February 2013, WhatsApp had about 200 million active users and 50 staff members. Sequoia invested another $50 million, and WhatsApp was valued at $1.5 billion.

In a December 2013 blog post, WhatsApp claimed that 400 million active users used the service each month.

Facebook subsidiary (2014-present)

On February 19, 2014, just one year after a venture capital financing round at a $1.5 billion valuation, Facebook, Inc. announced it was acquiring WhatsApp for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date. At the time, it was the largest acquisition of a venture-backed company in history. Sequoia Capital received an approximate 5000% return on its initial investment. Facebook, which was advised by Allen & Co, paid $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares, and (advised by Morgan Stanley) an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units granted to WhatsApp's founders Koum and Acton. Employee stock was scheduled to vest over four years subsequent to closing. Days after the announcement, WhatsApp users experienced a loss of service, leading to anger across social media.

The acquisition caused a considerable number of users to try and/or move to other message services. Telegram claimed that it acquired 8 million new users; and Line, 2 million.

At a keynote presentation at the Mobile World Congress in [[Barcelona],] in February 2014, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp was closely related to the Internet.org vision. A TechCrunch article said this about Zuckerberg's vision:

The idea, he said, is to develop a group of basic internet services that would be free of charge to use - 'a 911 for the internet.' These could be a social networking service like Facebook, a messaging service, maybe search and other things like weather. Providing a bundle of these free of charge to users will work like a gateway drug of sorts - users who may be able to afford data services and phones these days just don't see the point of why they would pay for those data services. This would give them some context for why they are important, and that will lead them to pay for more services like this - or so the hope goes.

In August 2014, WhatsApp was the most globally popular messaging app, with more than 600 million users. By early January 2015, WhatsApp had 700 million monthly users and over 30 billion messages every day. In April 2015, predicted that between 2012 and 2018, the telecommunications industry would lose $386 billion because of OTT services like WhatsApp and Skype. That month, WhatsApp had over 800 million users. By September 2015, it had grown to 900 million; and by February 2016, one billion.

On November 30, 2015, the Android WhatsApp client made links to another message service, Telegram, unclickable and uncopyable. Multiple sources confirmed that it was intentional, not a bug, and that it had been implemented when the Android source code that recognized Telegram URLs had been identified. (The word "telegram" appeared in WhatsApp's code.) Some considered it an anti-competitive measure, but WhatsApp offered no explanation.

Recent (2016-present)

On January 18, 2016, WhatsApp's co-founder Jan Koum announced that it would no longer charge users a $1 annual subscription fee, in an effort to remove a barrier faced by users without credit cards. He also said that the app would not display any third-party ads, and that it would have new features such as the ability to communicate with businesses.

By June 2016, the company's blog reported more than 100 million voice calls per day were being placed on WhatsApp.

On November 10, 2016, WhatsApp launched a beta version of two-step verification for Android users, which allowed them to use their email addresses for further protection. Also in November 2016, Facebook ceased collecting WhatsApp data for advertising in Europe. Later that month, video calls between two accounts were introduced.

On May 18, 2017, it was reported that the European Commission would fine Facebook €110 million for "misleading" it during the 2014 takeover of WhatsApp. The Commission alleged that in 2014 when Facebook acquired the messaging app, it "falsely claimed it was technically impossible to automatically combine user information from Facebook and WhatsApp." However, in the summer of 2016, WhatsApp had begun sharing user information with its parent company, allowing information such as phone numbers to be used for targeted Facebook advertisements. Facebook acknowledged the breach, but said the errors in their 2014 filings were "not intentional".

In September 2017, WhatsApp's co-founder Brian Acton left the company to start a nonprofit group, later revealed as the Signal Foundation, which now develops the WhatsApp competitor Signal. WhatsApp also announced a forthcoming business platform to enable companies to provide customer service at scale, and airlines KLM and Aeroméxico announced their participation in the testing. Both airlines previously launched customer services on the Facebook Messenger platform.

In January 2018, WhatsApp launched WhatsApp Business for small business use.

Later in September 2018, WhatsApp introduced group audio and video call features. In October, the "Swipe to Reply" option was added to the Android beta version, 16 months after it was introduced for iOS.

On October 25, 2018, WhatsApp announced support for Stickers. But unlike other platforms WhatsApp requires third party apps to add Stickers to WhatsApp.

On November 25, 2019, WhatsApp announced an investment of $250,000 into the startup ecosystem through a partnership with Startup India, where it will provide 500 startups with Facebook ad credits of $500 each.

In December 2019, WhatsApp announced that a new update would lock out any Apple users who haven't updated to iOS 9 or higher and Samsung, Huawei, Sony and Google users who haven't updated to version 4.0 by February 1, 2020. The company also reported that Windows Phone operating systems would no longer be supported after December 31, 2019. WhatsApp was announced to be the 3rd most downloaded mobile app of the decade from 2010 to 2019.

In early 2020, WhatsApp launched its "dark mode" for iPhone and Android devices - a new design consisting of a darker palette. In March, WhatsApp partnered with the World Health Organization and UNICEF to provide messaging hotlines for people to get information on the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic. That same month, WhatsApp began testing a feature to help users find out more information and context about information they receive.

In October 2020, Whatsapp has rolled out a feature that allow users to mute both individuals and group chats forever. The mute chat settings now show '8 hours', '1 week', and 'Always' options. The 'Always' option replaces the '1 year' option that was originally part of the settings. This new feature is present on both iOS and Android devices, as well as on WhatsApp web.

In May 2019, WhatsApp was attacked by hackers who installed spyware on a number of victims' smartphones. The hack, allegedly developed by Israeli surveillance technology firm NSO Group, injected malware onto WhatsApp users' phones via a remote-exploit bug in the app's Voice over IP calling functions. A report noted the attack was able to inject malware via calls to the targeted phone, even if the user did not answer the call. On October 29, WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against NSO Group in a San Francisco court, claiming that the alleged cyberattack violated US laws including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). According to WhatsApp, the exploit "targeted at least 100 human-rights defenders, journalists and other members of civil society" among a total of 1,400 users in 20 countries.

Until 2017, WhatsApp was for individual use between two smartphones. This enabled businesses to communicate with customers, but not at scale (e.g. in a contact center environment). In September 2017 WhatsApp confirmed rumors that they were building and testing two new tools for businesses:

A free WhatsApp Business app for small companies

An Enterprise Solution for bigger companies with global customer bases, such as airlines, e-commerce retailers and banks, who would be able to offer customer service and conversational commerce (e-commerce) via WhatsApp chat, using live agents or chatbots. (As far back as 2015, companies like Meteordesk had provided unofficial solutions for enterprises to attend to large numbers of users, but these were shut down by WhatsApp.)

In October 2020, parent company Facebook announced the introduction of pricing tiers for services it offers via WhatsApp Business API which are now chargeable on a per-message basis according to their recent updates..

After months at beta stage, the official first release of WhatsApp launched in November 2009, exclusively at the App Store for iPhone. In January 2010, support for BlackBerry smartphones was added; and subsequently for Symbian OS in May 2010, and for Android OS in August 2010. In August 2011, a beta for Nokia's non-smartphone OS Series 40 was added. A month later, support for Windows Phone was added, followed by BlackBerry 10 in March 2013. In April 2015, support for Samsung's Tizen OS was added. Unofficial ports, Wazapp and Yappari, have also been released for the MeeGo-based Nokia N9 and the Maemo-based Nokia N900, respectively.

The oldest device capable of running WhatsApp was the Symbian-based Nokia N95 released in March 2007. (As of June 2017, WhatsApp is no longer compatible with it.)

In 2014, an unofficial open source plug-in, whatsapp-purple, was released for Pidgin, implementing its XMPP and making it possible to use WhatsApp on PCs running Microsoft Windows and Linux.[third-party source needed ] WhatsApp responded by blocking phone numbers that used the plug-in.[citation needed ]

On January 21, 2015, WhatsApp launched WhatsApp Web, a browser-based web client that could be used by syncing with a mobile device's connection.

On February 26, 2016, WhatsApp announced they would cease support for BlackBerry (including BlackBerry 10), Series 40, and Symbian S60, as well as older versions of Android (2.2), Windows Phone (7.0), and iOS (6), by the end of 2016. BlackBerry, Series 40, and Symbian support was then extended to June 30, 2017. In June 2017, support for BlackBerry and Series 40 was once again extended until the end of 2017, while Symbian was dropped.

Support for BlackBerry and older (version 8.0) Windows Phone and older (version 6) iOS devices was dropped on January 1, 2018, but was extended to December 2018 for Nokia Series 40. In July 2018, it was announced that WhatsApp would soon be available for KaiOS feature phones.

In October 2019, WhatsApp officially launched a new fingerprint app-locking feature for Android users.

WhatsApp was officially made available for PCs through a web client, under the name WhatsApp Web, in late January 2015 through an announcement made by Koum on his Facebook page: "Our web client is simply an extension of your phone: the web browser mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device-this means all of your messages still live on your phone". The WhatsApp user's handset must still be connected to the Internet for the browser application to function. All major desktop browsers are supported except for Internet Explorer. WhatsApp Web's user interface is based on the default Android one and can be accessed through web.whatsapp.com. Access is granted after the users scan their personal QR code through their mobile WhatsApp application.

On May 10, 2016, the messaging service was introduced for both Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems. WhatsApp currently does not allow audio or video calling from desktop operating systems. Similar to the WhatsApp Web format, the app, which will be synced with a user's mobile device, is available for download on the website. It supports OS versions of Windows 8 and OS X 10.10 and higher.

A story circulated in 2019 that iPad support was coming.

However, as of March 2020, WhatsApp does not run on the Apple iPad. From the WhatsApp iOS page (accessed March 2020): "WhatsApp is a telephony app, so iPod and iPad are not supported devices."

iPad users searching for WhatsApp are shown numerous third-party clients. Several top results have names and logos resembling WhatsApp itself, and some users do not realize they are using a third-party client. Unfortunately, using third-party clients runs the risk to the user of their phone number being permanently banned.

WhatsApp uses a customized version of the open standard Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). Upon installation, it creates a user account using one's phone number as the username ( Jabber ID: [phone number]@s.whatsapp.net).

WhatsApp software automatically compares all the phone numbers from the device's address book with its central database of WhatsApp users to automatically add contacts to the user's WhatsApp contact list. Previously the Android and Nokia Series 40 versions used an MD5-hashed, reversed-version of the phone's IMEI as password, while the iOS version used the phone's Wi-Fi MAC address instead of IMEI. A 2012 update now generates a random password on the server side.

In February 2015, WhatsApp introduced a voice calling feature; this helped WhatsApp to attract a completely different segment of the user population. WhatsApp's voice codec is Opus, which uses the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) and linear predictive coding (LPC) audio compression algorithms. WhatsApp uses Opus at 8-16 kHz sampling rates. On November 14, 2016, Whatsapp added a video calling feature for users across Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone devices.

In November 2017, Whatsapp released a new feature that would let its users delete messages sent by mistake within a time frame of 7 minutes.

Multimedia messages are sent by uploading the image, audio or video to be sent to an HTTP server and then sending a link to the content along with its Base64 encoded thumbnail (if applicable).

WhatsApp follows a " store and forward" mechanism for exchanging messages between two users. When a user sends a message, it first travels to the WhatsApp server where it is stored. Then the server repeatedly requests the receiver to acknowledge receipt of the message. As soon as the message is acknowledged, the server drops the message; it is no longer available in the database of the server. The WhatsApp server keeps the message only for 30 days in its database when it is not delivered (when the receiver is not active on WhatsApp for 30 days).[self-published source? ]

On November 18, 2014, Open Whisper Systems announced a partnership with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption by incorporating the encryption protocol used in Signal into each WhatsApp client platform. Open Whisper Systems said that they had already incorporated the protocol into the latest WhatsApp client for Android, and that support for other clients, group/media messages, and key verification would be coming soon after. WhatsApp confirmed the partnership to reporters, but there was no announcement or documentation about the encryption feature on the official website, and further requests for comment were declined. In April 2015, German magazine Heise Security used ARP spoofing to confirm that the protocol had been implemented for Android-to-Android messages, and that WhatsApp messages from or to iPhones running iOS were still not end-to-end encrypted. They expressed the concern that regular WhatsApp users still could not tell the difference between end-to-end encrypted messages and regular messages.

On April 5, 2016, WhatsApp and Open Whisper Systems announced that they had finished adding end-to-end encryption to "every form of communication" on WhatsApp, and that users could now verify each other's keys. Users were also given the option to enable a trust on first use mechanism in order to be notified if a correspondent's key changes. According to a white paper that was released along with the announcement, WhatsApp messages are encrypted with the Signal Protocol. WhatsApp calls are encrypted with SRTP, and all client-server communications are "layered within a separate encrypted channel". The Signal Protocol library used by WhatsApp is open-source and published under the GPLv3 license.

Cade Metz, writing in Wired, said, "WhatsApp, more than any company before it, has taken encryption to the masses."

WhatsApp Payments (marketed as WhatsApp Pay) is a peer-to-peer money transfer feature that is currently only available in India. WhatsApp has received permission from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to enter into partnership with multiple banks in July 2017 to allow users to make in-app payments and money transfers using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). UPI enables account-to-account transfers from a mobile app without having any details of the beneficiary's bank. On 6 November 2020, Whatsapp announced that it had received approval for providing a payment service, although restricted to maximum of 20 million users initially. The service was subsequently rolled out.

On February 28, 2019, The New York Times reported that Facebook was "hoping to succeed where Bitcoin failed" by developing an in-house cryptocurrency that would be incorporated into WhatsApp. The project reportedly involves over 50 engineers under the direction of former PayPal president David Marcus. This 'Facebook coin' will reportedly be a stablecoin pegged to the value of a basket of different foreign currencies.

You can directly start a WhatsApp conversation without having the phone number in your address book by opening a special link containing the phone number.

In an investigation on the use of social media in politics, it was found that WhatsApp was being abused for the spread of fake news in the 2018 presidential elections in Brazil. Furthermore, it has been reported that US$3 million has been spent in illegal off-the-books contributions related to this practice.

Researchers and journalists have called on WhatsApp parent company, Facebook, to adopt measures similar to those adopted in India and restrict the spread of hoaxes and fake news.

WhatsApp was initially criticized for its lack of encryption, sending information as plaintext. Encryption was first added in May 2012.

In 2016, WhatsApp was widely praised for the addition of end-to-end encryption and earned a 6 out of 7 points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Secure Messaging Scorecard". WhatsApp was criticized by security researchers and the Electronic Frontier Foundation for using backups that are not covered by end-to-end encryption and allow messages to be accessed by third-parties.

In September 2019, WhatsApp was criticized for its implementation of a 'delete for everyone' feature. iOS users can elect to save media to their camera roll automatically. When a user deletes media for everyone, WhatsApp does not delete images saved in the iOS camera roll and so those users are able to keep the images. WhatsApp released a statement saying that "the feature is working properly," and that images stored in the camera roll cannot be deleted due to Apple's security layers.

In November 2019, WhatsApp released a new privacy feature that let users decide who adds them to the group.

On December 17, 2019, WhatsApp fixed a security flaw that allowed cyber attackers to repeatedly crash the messaging application for all members of group chat, which could only be fixed by forcing the complete uninstall and reinstall of the app. The bug was discovered by Check Point in August 2019 and reported to WhatsApp. It was fixed in version 2.19.246 onwards.

For security purposes, since February 1, 2020, WhatsApp has been made unavailable on smartphones using legacy operating systems like Android 2.3.7 or older and iPhone iOS 8 or older that are no longer updated by their providers.

In April 2020, the NSO Group held its governmental clients accountable for the allegation of human rights abuses by WhatsApp. In its revelation via documents received from court, the group said that the mobile application periled to disregard its clients' "national security and foreign policy concerns". However, the company did not reveal names of the end users, which according to a research by Citizen Lab include, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates.

NHS

Mods and fake versions

In March 2019, WhatsApp released a guide for users who had installed unofficial modified versions of WhatsApp and warned against data loss in case users persisted using the same as it considered banning such users.

NSO Group

Jeff Bezos Phone Hack

In January 2020, a digital forensic analysis revealed that the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received an encrypted message on WhatsApp from the official account of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The message reportedly contained a malicious file, the receipt of which resulted in Bezos' phone being hacked. The United Nations' special rapporteur David Kaye and Agnes Callamard later confirmed that Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked through WhatsApp, as he was one of the targets of Saudi's hit list of individuals close to The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

In December 2015, it was reported that Islamic State terrorists had been using WhatsApp to plot the November 2015 Paris attacks. According to The Independent, ISIS also uses WhatsApp to traffic sex slaves.

In March 2017, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd said encryption capabilities of messaging tools like WhatsApp are unacceptable, as news reported that Khalid Masood used the application several minutes before perpetrating the 2017 Westminster attack. Rudd publicly called for police and intelligence agencies to be given access to WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging services to prevent future terror attacks.

In April 2017, nearly 300 Whatsapp groups of strength about 250 members each were reportedly being used to mobilize stone-pelters in Jammu and Kashmir to disrupt security forces' operations at encounter sites. According to police, 90% of these groups were closed down after counselling of admins of these groups. Further, after a 6 months probe which involved infiltration of 79 of such Whatsapp groups, the National Investigation Agency reported that out of about 6386 members and admins of these groups, about 1000 were residents of Pakistan and gulf nations. Further, for their help in negating anti-terror operations, the Indian stone pelters were getting funded through barter trade from Pakistan and other indirect means.

It has been asserted that WhatsApp is plagued by scams that invite hackers to spread malicious viruses or malware. In May 2016, some WhatsApp users were reported to have been tricked into downloading a third-party application called WhatsApp Gold, which was part of a scam that infected the users' phones with malware. A message that promises to allow access to their WhatsApp friends' conversations, or their contact lists, has become the most popular hit against anyone who uses the application in Brazil. Since December 2016, more than 1.5 million people have clicked and lost money.

Another application called GB Whatsapp is considered malicious by cybersecurity firm Symantec because it usually performs some unauthorized operations on end-user devices.

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, whose main social media service has been blocked in China since 2009. In September 2017, security researchers reported to The New York Times that the WhatsApp service had been completely blocked in China.

According to , Sarsenbek Akaruli, 45, a veterinarian and trader from Ili, Xinjiang, was arrested in Xinjiang on November 2, 2017. As of November 2019, he is still in a detention camp. According to his wife Gulnur Kosdaulet, Akaruli was put in the camp after police found WhatsApp's banned messaging app on his cell phone. Kosdaulet, a citizen of neighboring Kazakhstan, has traveled to Xinjiang on four occasions to search for her husband but could not get help from friends in the Communist Party of China. Kosdaulet said of her friends, "Nobody wanted to risk being recorded on security cameras talking to me in case they ended up in the camps themselves."

On May 9, 2014, the government of Iran announced that it had proposed to block the access to WhatsApp service to Iranian residents. "The reason for this is the assumption of WhatsApp by the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is an American Zionist," said Abdolsamad Khorramabadi, head of the country's Committee on Internet Crimes. Subsequently, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani issued an order to the Ministry of ICT to stop filtering WhatsApp.

Turkey temporarily banned WhatsApp in 2016, following the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey.

Brazil's Central Bank issued an order to Visa and Mastercard on June 23, 2020 to stop working with WhatsApp on its new electronic payment system. A statement from the Bank asserted the decision to block the Facebook-owned company's latest offering was taken in order to "preserve an adequate competitive environment" in the mobile payments space and to ensure "functioning of a payment system that's interchangeable, fast, secure, transparent, open and cheap."

WhatsApp, one of the most activated messaging apps along with other social media networks such as Facebook and Instagram were temporarily blocked, banned and had been unavailable for about two days (March 7-8, 2018) in certain parts of the country to eradicate communal violence, especially the anti-Muslim riots. This was probably the first such instance where social media platforms had been banned in Sri Lanka. The ban was finally lifted on March 14, 2018 around midnight time in Sri Lanka.

The government of Uganda banned WhatsApp and Facebook, along with other social media platforms, to enforce a tax on the use of social media. Users are to be charged 200 shilling per day to access these services according to the new law set by parliament.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

The United Arab Emirates banned WhatsApp video chat and VoIP call applications in as early as 2013 due to what is often reported as an effort to protect the commercial interests of their home grown nationally owned telecom providers (du and Etisalat). Their app ToTok has received press suggesting it is able to spy on users.

WhatsApp handled ten billion messages per day in August 2012, growing from two billion in April 2012, and one billion the previous October. On June 13, 2013, WhatsApp announced that they had reached their new daily record by processing 27 billion messages. According to the Financial Times, WhatsApp "has done to SMS on mobile phones what Skype did to international calling on landlines".

By April 22, 2014, WhatsApp had over 500 million monthly active users, 700 million photos and 100 million videos were being shared daily, and the messaging system was handling more than 10 billion messages each day.

On August 24, 2014, Koum announced on his Twitter account that WhatsApp had over 600 million active users worldwide. At that point WhatsApp was adding about 25 million new users every month, or 833,000 active users per day.

In May 2017, it was reported that WhatsApp users spend over 340 million minutes on video calls each day on the app. This is the equivalent of roughly 646 years of video calls per day.

In January 2020, WhatsApp registers over 5 billion installs on Google Play Store making it only the second non-Google app to achieve this milestone.

India is by far WhatsApp's largest market in terms of total number of users. In May 2014, WhatsApp crossed 50 million monthly active users in India, which is also its largest country by the number of monthly active users, then 70 million in October 2014, making users in India 10% of WhatsApp's total user base. In February 2017, WhatsApp reached 200 million monthly active users in India.

Israel is one of WhatsApp's strongest markets in terms of ubiquitous usage. According to , already by 2013 the application was installed on 92% of all smartphones, with 86% of users reporting daily use. WhatsApp's group chat feature is reportedly used by many Israeli families to stay in contact with each other.

WhatsApp competes with a number of messaging services. They include services like iMessage (estimated 1.3 billion active users), WeChat (1.2 billion active users), Telegram (400 million users), Viber (260 million active users), and LINE (217 million active users). Telegram in particular was reported to get registration spikes during WhatsApp outages and controversies.

WhatsApp has increasingly drawn its innovation from competing services, such as a Telegram-inspired web version and features for groups. In 2016, WhatsApp was accused of copying features from a then-unreleased version of iMessage.

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Facebook es el gigante de las redes sociales, con millones de usuarios en todo el mundo.

En esta red social se comparten desde fotos de tu día a día, hasta encuestas electorales o descuentos de las marcas más famosas.

En este post vamos a ver qué es Facebook, como se utiliza y para qué sirve, además de algunos trucos que pueden venirte muy bien.

¿Qué es Facebook?

Facebook es una red social que más de 2700 millones de personas en todo el mundo utilizan a diario para compartir con su círculo publicaciones de todo tipo.

La esencia de Facebook es muy sencilla: es una red que conecta personas con personas.

Aunque Facebook ha estado y sigue estando orientado, sobre todo, a las personas, con el tiempo, las marcas, también han ido adquiriendo un peso importante a través de las páginas de Facebook.

Sin embargo, el espíritu de la red sigue siendo un espíritu muy orientado a las vidas personales, algo que precisamente las marcas deben tener muy en cuenta si quieren "" a los usuarios.

En ese sentido, las funcionalidades más importantes son las que te permiten encontrar amigos con el buscador de amigos de Facebook para conectarte con ellos e interactuar: contarles cosas de ti (tu estado de ánimo, cosas que te han pasado, etc.), compartir recursos (páginas web, fotos, etc.) o incluso realizar encuestas.

Todas estas actividades tuyas quedarán reflejadas en la línea del tiempo de tu biografía (lo que antes se conocía como "el muro" de Facebook) y, según el nivel de visibilidad que le hayas dado a cada entrada, estarán visibles para más o menos gente.

Por otra parte, Facebook es un lugar muy visual donde las fotos tienen mucho peso.

Comentar las cosas que has hecho (eventos en los que has estado, una buena compra en una tienda, quedadas con amigos, etc.) y acompañar estos relatos de fotos es la actividad por excelencia que los usuarios realizan en Facebook.

Para qué sirve Facebook

Facebook es una red social en la que todo el mundo es bienvenido. Si quieres descubrir algunas de las cosas que puedes hacer en esta red social, ¡sigue leyendo!

Compartir contenido con tu círculo

El objetivo principal de esta red social es mostrarle al mundo lo que tu quieras.

Lo más habitual es publicar fotos de tu día a día, pero también puedes utilizar Facebook como un canal de comunicación.

Por ejemplo, si eres artista, Facebook puede servirte de escaparate para que enseñes a todo el mundo tus obras.

Si tienes una tienda online puedes crearte una página de Facebook en la que muestres tus productos, junto a promociones y descuentos.

Y si por el contrario eres una persona que solo quiere enseñar las fotos de tu día a día con tu círculo más cercano, ¡también eres bienvenido!

Los grupos de Facebook

Los grupos de Facebook sirven para conectar a muchas personas entorno a un tema determinado.

En los grupos de Facebook puedes encontrar información muy útil, que otros usuarios han publicado, y es accesible para los miembros del grupo.

Además, es típico que se genere debate y puedes interactuar, además de aprender y conocer a gente nueva.

Si tienes alguna afición y quieres encontrar a más gente que le guste, o quieres profundizar en algún ámbito laboral, los grupos de Facebook pueden ayudarte mucho.

Crear eventos con Facebook

Si tienes un negocio y quieres organizar un taller, curso o exposición (entre muchos otros eventos) Facebook te viene como anillo al dedo.

Tiene un apartado, en el que puedes organizar todo tipo de eventos e invitar a tus contactos.

Estos podrán confirmar si asisten, si les interesa o si no; además de poder compartirlo con otras personas de Facebook.

Además de ser una buena forma de organización, es también muy útil para promocionar tu proyecto.

Guía básica de cómo usar Facebook

Buenas noticias: Facebook es una red bastante intuitiva. No tendrás problema en aprender a compartir contenido, comentar en las fotos de tus amigos o enviar publicaciones.

Sin embargo, te dejamos algunos trucos que te ayudarán a ir más rápido.

Compartir una publicación en Facebook

Para compartir una publicación en Facebook ve a la sección principal, y haz clic en el apartado donde ves escrito "¿Qué estás pensado?".

Al hacer clic se abre una nueva ventana, en la que puedes escribir lo que quieras.

Tienes la opción de escribir el texto normal, sin fondo, o añadir uno de colores, haciendo clic en el botón de colores de abajo a la izquierda.

Cuando haces clic sobre este botón, se abre un abanico de posibles fondos. Elige el que más te gusta y comienza a escribir.

También puedes añadir una fotografía o vídeo, haciendo clic en el botón que hay justo debajo del texto que escribes, a la derecha de " Añade a tu publicación ".

Entre estas opciones también puedes etiquetar a personas, sentimientos o añadir una publicación.

Por último, antes de compartir la publicación puedes configurar quién va a poder verla, haciendo clic en la pestaña que aparece justo debajo de tu nombre de Facebook.

Se despliegan varias opciones, entre las que puedes elegir quién va a ver esa publicación.

Cuando hayas terminado haz clic en " Publicar ", en el botón de abajo.

Buscar personas en Facebook

Para buscar personas en Facebook debes ir a la barra superior de búsqueda, donde pone "Busca en Facebook".

Aquí, escribe el nombre de la persona o página que estás buscando.

Cuando accedes a esta nueva ventana, puedes ver en el margen izquierdo los filtros de búsqueda, entre los que encuentras " Publicaciones", " Personas", " Fotos " y mucho más.

Esto quiere decir que se filtrará la búsqueda de la palaba que hayas introducido en el buscador en función del tipo de contenido que estás buscando.

Por ejemplo, si quieres buscar nuestra página de " Ciudadano 2.0", introduce " Ciudadano 2.0" en la barra buscadora y selecciona la opción de " Página ".

Ahora en la pantalla principal verás todos los resultados relacionados con la búsqueda.

Cómo ver mis fotos en Facebook

Para ver las fotos que has ido subiendo en tu perfil, debes ir a la sección de tu perfil.

Para eso, ve a la esquina superior derecha, donde pone tu nombre. Haz clic y accedes a tu muro.

Aquí, según vayas bajando, verás todos los posts que has ido publicando. Pero si quieres ver exclusivamente las fotos que has compartido, ve al margen izquierdo donde pone " Fotos" y luego haz clic en " Ver todas las fotos ".

Cuando accedes a esta sección, veras todas las fotos que aparecen en tu perfil, clasificadas por las fotos en las que te han etiquetado (otras cuentas o tú mismo), las que has subido tú y los álbumes que hayas ido creando.

Cómo borrar fotos y publicaciones de Facebook

Para borrar fotografías o publicaciones de tu perfil de Facebook, debes ir a la sección de tu perfil, haciendo clic en el botón que hay arriba a la derecha con tu nombre.

Al hacer clic accedes a tu perfil. Ve hasta la publicación que quieres eliminar y haz clic en el botón con forma de tres puntos que hay encima de tu publicación, a la derecha.

Se abre un menú con varias posibilidades. Si la publicación que quieres eliminar la has subido tú mismo, busca la opción de "Mover a papelera".

Si en cambio, has sido etiquetado en esa publicación (la ha subido otra persona) y quieres eliminarla de tu perfil, haz clic en " Eliminar etiqueta ".

Descargar o bajar vídeos de Facebook

Si has visto un vídeo que te gusta mucho y quieres tenerlo en tu dispositivo, tienes la opción de descargarlo.

Eso sí, debes tener mucho cuidado con compartir en otras redes sociales contenido que no es tuyo si el autor no lo permite ya que en este caso no sería legal y estarías incurriendo en problemas de derechos de autor. Así que actúa con responsabilidad.

Por si te surgen algunas dudas respecto a este tema, te dejo este post en el que abordamos el tema de la legalidad del contenido multimedia en Internet:

Para descargar un vídeo de Facebook, debes ir a esa publicación, y copiar su enlace.

Puedes encontrarlo en el botón con forma de tres puntos que aparece en la esquina superior de la publicación. Haz clic en " copiar enlace ".

Ahora, ve a la página "fdown.net" y pega en la barra buscadora en enlace que acabas de copiar.

Cuando lo tengas, haz clic en " Download " y te redirige a una nueva ventana, en la que puedes ver la previsualización del vídeo, y dos opciones para la descarga: calidad normal o alta calidad.

Selecciona la que quieras y llegarás a otra ventana, en la que puedes ver el vídeo.

Este paso va a depender del navegador que estés utilizando.

Si estás navegando desde Chrome, haz clic en el botón con forma de tres puntitos abajo a la derecha, y haz clic en " Descargar ".

Si estás navegando desde Firefox, debes hacer clic en el botón derecho de tu ratón y hacer clic en " Guardar vídeo como... "

Grupos de Facebook: qué son y cómo funcionan

Los grupos de Facebook son páginas donde se "reúne" gente con los mismos intereses en determinados temas.

Con el buscador de Facebook puedes explorar grupos sobre todo tipo de temas, es tan sencillo como introducir palabras clave de posibles grupos y en los resultados aparecerán de manera diferenciada los grupos que coinciden con los resultados.

Así, por ejemplo, teclear "Dieta Dukan" (filtrando los resultados por grupos según explica el anterior enlace) te permitiría localizar este grupo en el cual puedes entrar en contacto con sus más de 1000 miembros para intercambiar consejos, experiencias, recetas Dukan, etc.

Cómo crear un grupo de Facebook

Para crear un grupo en Facebook haz clic en el botón de "+" que hay en la parte superior derecha y selecciona "Grupo".

Llegas a esta nueva ventana, en la que debes introducir los datos del grupo que quieres crear, como el nombre o la temática. También puedes invitar a amigos para que se unan.

Cuando esté listo, haz clic en el botón de " Crear ", abajo a la derecha.

Cómo publicar en un grupo de Facebook

Para publicar en un grupo de Facebook debes ingresar en la página del grupo. Ahora haz clic en la barra donde pone "Crear nueva publicación".

El procedimiento es igual que cuando creas una publicación en tu perfil. Puedes añadir fotos, vídeos o sentimientos.

Cómo salir de un grupo de Facebook

Para salir de un grupo de Facebook, ve a la página del grupo.

Ahora haz clic en el botón que encuentras en el margen derecho, con forma de tres puntitos, y selecciona la opción de "Abandonar grupo de Facebook".

Cómo crear una cuenta en Facebook

Si quieres empezar ya a disfrutar de todas las ventajas de esta red social, te dejo este post en el que te contamos cómo crear una cuenta en Facebook paso a paso.

También puedes ver este tutorial en el que te explicamos paso a paso cómo hacerlo:

Cómo crear una página de empresa en Facebook y sus beneficios

Si tienes una empresa, marca personal, o negocio, te interesa mucho tener una página en Facebook desde la que mantener al día a tus clientes de las novedades.

También es un método magnífico para conseguir nuevos posibles clientes y ganar visibilidad.

No esperes más y crea la página de Facebook perfecta para tu empresa.

También puedes ver este tutorial en el que te explicamos las claves para triunfar con tu página de empresa de Facebook:

Dos trucos para publicar como un profesional

Hasta ahora hemos visto algunos consejos para usar Facebook, pero en este apartado vas a encontrar dos trucos específicos sobre publicaciones de Facebook.

¡Espero que sea de gran utilidad!

¿Cuál es la mejor hora para compartir en Facebook?

La hora en la que publicas un post es determinante, porque no hay el mismo número de usuarios activos a las diez de la mañana que a las tres de la tarde.

Según "Marketing 4 commerce", la mejor franja horaria para publicar en Facebook a nivel global es entre las 10 a.m y las 2 p.m, con el punto máximo de engagement los miércoles entre las 11 a.m y las 12 p.m.

Es importante conocer tu círculo de amigos y saber dónde viven, ya que el diferente horario puede afectar.

Por ejemplo, si tienes una marca, y la mitad de tus seguidores residen en España y la otra mitad en Latinoamérica, tienes que estudiar mejor la hora óptima o con qué público tienes más engagement.

Y un último consejo. Si quieres saber cómo conseguir más seguidores, echa un vistazo a este vídeo:

Aprovecha la mejor hora para publicar en Facebook: cómo programar publicaciones de Facebook

Las publicaciones que puedes programar son las realizadas en grupos de Facebook o las que publicas desde una página, no desde un perfil personal.

Para programar una publicación desde una página de Facebook, ve a la sección de " Crear publicación ".

Se abre una nueva ventana en la que puedes escribir tu publicación, pero haz clic en el link que aparece abajo del todo, donde pone "Herramientas de publicación".

Este paso abre una nueva ventana, donde encontramos en el margen izquierdo muchas opciones. Selecciona la opción de "Publicaciones programadas", en el apartado de " Publicaciones ".

Ahora haz clic en " Crear publicación ", y en esta nueva ventana, en la esquina inferior izquierda escribe tu publicación.

Cuando hayas terminado, haz clic en el botón de abajo a la derecha con forma de flecha, y elige " Programar publicación". Elige la fecha de publicación y haz clic en " Save ".

Acerca del autor: Lucía Berlanga

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Initial release

November 19, 1990; 31 years ago

Office 365

2107 (Beta Channel) (16.0.13901.20462) / June 8, 2021; 12 months ago

One-time purchase

2021 / October 5, 2021; 8 months ago [1]

Written in

Available in

102 languages[3]

Full (43): English, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay (Latin), Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin, Serbia), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Somali, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Partial (48): Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani (Latin), Bangla (Bangladesh), Bangla (Bengali India), Belarusian, Bosnian (Latin), Dari, Filipino, Georgian, Gujarati, Icelandic, Irish, Kannada, Khmer, Kiswahili, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nepali, Norwegian Nynorsk, Odia, Persian (Farsi), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Quechua, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia & Herzegovina), Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia), Sindhi (Arabic), Sinhala, Tamil, Tatar (Cyrillic), Telugu, Turkmen (Latin), Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek (Latin), Valencian, Welsh,

Proofing only (11): Hausa, Igbo, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Kinyarwanda, Pashto, Romansh, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, Wolof, Yoruba

License

Trialware, volume licensing or SaaS

Website

www.office.com

Initial release

August 1, 1989; 32 years ago

Stable release

Written in

C++ (back-end), Objective-C (API/UI)[2]

Operating system

macOS
Classic Mac OS (discontinued)

Available in

16 languages[10]

English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish

License

Proprietary commercial software ( retail, volume licensing, SaaS)

Website

office.com

Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketing term for an office suite (bundled set of productivity applications), the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, Object Linking and Embedding data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand. In 2012, Softpedia reported that Office was being used by over a billion people worldwide.

It contains a word processor ( Word), a spreadsheet program ( Excel) and a presentation program ( PowerPoint), an email client ( Outlook), a database management system ( Access), and a desktop publishing app ( Publisher).

Office is produced in several versions targeted towards different end-users and computing environments. The original, and most widely used version, is the desktop version, available for PCs running the Windows and macOS operating systems. Microsoft also maintains mobile apps for Android and iOS. Office on the web is a version of the software that runs within a web browser.

Since Office 2013, Microsoft has promoted Office 365 as the primary means of obtaining Microsoft Office: it allows the use of the software and other services on a subscription business model, and users receive feature updates to the software for the lifetime of the subscription, including new features and cloud computing integration that are not necessarily included in the "on-premises" releases of Office sold under conventional license terms. In 2017, revenue from Office 365 overtook conventional license sales. Microsoft also rebranded most of their standard Office 365 editions into Microsoft 365 to emphasize their current inclusion of products and services.

Components

Core apps and services

Microsoft Word is a word processor included in Microsoft Office and some editions of the now-discontinued Microsoft Works. The first version of Word, released in the autumn of 1983, was for the MS-DOS operating system and introduced the computer mouse to more users. Word 1.0 could be purchased with a bundled mouse, though none was required. Following the precedents of LisaWrite and MacWrite, Word for Macintosh attempted to add closer WYSIWYG features into its package. Word for Mac was released in 1985. Word for Mac was the first graphical version of Microsoft Word. Initially, it implemented the proprietary .doc format as its primary format. Word 2007, however, deprecated this format in favor of Office Open XML, which was later standardized by Ecma International as an open format. Support for Portable Document Format (PDF) and OpenDocument (ODF) was first introduced in Word for Windows with Service Pack 2 for Word 2007.

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor that originally competed with the dominant Lotus 1-2-3 and eventually outsold it. Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Mac OS in 1985 and the first Windows version (numbered 2.05 to line up with the Mac) in November 1987.

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program used to create slideshows composed of text, graphics, and other objects, which can be displayed on-screen and shown by the presenter or printed out on transparencies or slides.

Microsoft OneNote is a notetaking program that gathers handwritten or typed notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. OneNote was initially introduced as a standalone app that was not included in any Microsoft Office 2003 edition. However, OneNote eventually became a core component of Microsoft Office; with the release of Microsoft Office 2013, OneNote was included in all Microsoft Office offerings. OneNote is also available as a web app on Office on the web, a freemium (and later freeware) Windows desktop app, a mobile app for Windows Phone, iOS, Android, and Symbian, and a Metro-style app for Windows 8 or later.

Microsoft Outlook (not to be confused with Outlook Express, Outlook.com or Outlook on the web) is a personal information manager that replaces Windows Messaging, Microsoft Mail, and Schedule+ starting in Office 97; it includes an e-mail client, calendar, task manager and address book. On the Mac OS, Microsoft offered several versions of Outlook in the late 1990s, but only for use with Microsoft Exchange Server. In Office 2001, it introduced an alternative application with a slightly different feature set called Microsoft Entourage. It reintroduced Outlook in Office 2011, replacing Entourage.

Microsoft OneDrive is a file hosting service that allows users to sync files and later access them from a web browser or mobile device.

Microsoft Teams is a platform that combines workplace chat, meetings, notes, and attachments.

Windows-only apps

Mobile-only apps

Office Lens is an image scanner optimized for mobile devices. It captures the document (e.g. business card, paper, whiteboard) via the camera and then straightens the document portion of the image. The result can be exported to Word, OneNote, PowerPoint or Outlook, or saved in OneDrive, sent via Mail or placed in Photo Library.

Office Mobile is a unified Office mobile app for Android and iOS, which combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single app and introduces new capabilities as making quick notes, signing PDFs, scanning QR codes, and transferring files.

Server applications

Web services

Office on the web

Office on the web is a free lightweight web version of Microsoft Office and primarily includes three web applications: Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The offering also includes Outlook.com, OneNote and OneDrive which are accessible through a unified app switcher. Users can install the on-premises version of this service, called Office Online Server, in private clouds in conjunction with SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Lync Server.

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the web can all natively open, edit, and save Office Open XML files (docx, xlsx, pptx) as well as OpenDocument files (odt, ods, odp). They can also open the older Office file formats ( doc, xls, ppt), but will be converted to the newer Open XML formats if the user wishes to edit them online. Other formats cannot be opened in the browser apps, such as CSV in Excel or HTML in Word, nor can Office files that are encrypted with a password be opened. Files with macros can be opened in the browser apps, but the macros cannot be accessed or executed. Starting in July 2013, Word can render PDF documents or convert them to Microsoft Word documents, although the formatting of the document may deviate from the original. Since November 2013, the apps have supported real-time co-authoring and autosaving files.

Office on the web lacks a number of the advanced features present in the full desktop versions of Office, including lacking the programs Access and Publisher entirely. However, users are able to select the command "Open in Desktop App" that brings up the document in the desktop version of Office on their computer or device to utilize the advanced features there.

Supported web browsers include Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 11, the latest versions of Firefox or Google Chrome, as well as Safari for OS X 10.8 or later.

The Personal edition of Office on the web is available to the general public free of charge with a Microsoft account through the Office.com website, which superseded SkyDrive (now OneDrive) and Office Live Workspace. Enterprise-managed versions are available through Office 365. In February 2013, the ability to view and edit files on SkyDrive without signing in was added. The service can also be installed privately in enterprise environments as a SharePoint app, or through Office Web Apps Server. Microsoft also offers other web apps in the Office suite, such as the Outlook Web App (formerly Outlook Web Access), Lync Web App (formerly Office Communicator Web Access), Project Web App (formerly Project Web Access). Additionally, Microsoft offers a service under the name of Online Doc Viewer to view Office documents on a website via Office on the web.

Common features

Most versions of Microsoft Office (including Office 97 and later) use their own widget set and do not exactly match the native operating system. This is most apparent in Microsoft Office XP and 2003, where the standard menus were replaced with a colored, flat-looking, shadowed menu style.

The user interface of a particular version of Microsoft Office often heavily influences a subsequent version of Microsoft Windows. Eg:-

The toolbar, colored buttons and the gray-colored 3D look of Office 4.3 were added to Windows 95.

The ribbon, introduced in Office 2007, has been incorporated into several programs bundled with Windows 7 and later.

The flat, box-like design of Office 2013 (released in 2012) was replicated in Windows 8's new UI revamp.

Users of Microsoft Office may access external data via connection-specifications saved in Office Data Connection (.odc) files.

Office, on all platforms, support editing both server files (in real time) and offline files (manually saved) in the recent years. The support for editing server files (in real time) was originally introduced (in its current form) after the introduction of OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive). But, older versions of Office also have the ability to edit server files (notably Office 2007).

Both Windows and Office used service packs to update software. Office had non-cumulative service releases, which were discontinued after Office 2000 Service Release 1. Now, Windows and Office have shifted to predictable (monthly, semi-annual and annual) release schemes to update software.

Past versions of Office often contained Easter eggs. For example, Excel 97 contained a reasonably functional flight-simulator.

File formats and metadata

Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007 used proprietary file formats based on the OLE Compound File Binary Format. This forced users who share data to adopt the same software platform. In 2008, Microsoft made the entire documentation for the binary Office formats freely available for download and granted any possible patents rights for use or implementations of those binary format for free under the Open Specification Promise. Previously, Microsoft had supplied such documentation freely but only on request.

Starting with Office 2007, the default file format has been a version of Office Open XML, though different from the one standardized and published by Ecma International and by ISO/ IEC. Microsoft has granted patent rights to the formats technology under the Open Specification Promise and has made available free downloadable converters for previous versions of Microsoft Office including Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000 and Office 2004 for Mac OS X. Third-party implementations of Office Open XML exist on the Windows platform ( LibreOffice, all platforms), macOS platform ( iWork '08, NeoOffice, LibreOffice) and Linux ( LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org 3.0). In addition, Office 2010, Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, and Office 2016 for Mac supports the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for opening and saving documents - only the old ODF 1.0 (2006 ISO/IEC standard) is supported, not the 1.2 version (2015 ISO/IEC standard).

Microsoft provides the ability to remove metadata from Office documents. This was in response to highly publicized incidents where sensitive data about a document was leaked via its metadata. Metadata removal was first available in 2004, when Microsoft released a tool called Remove Hidden Data Add-in for Office 2003/XP for this purpose. It was directly integrated into Office 2007 in a feature called the Document Inspector.

Extensibility

A major feature of the Office suite is the ability for users and third-party companies to write add-ins ( plug-ins) that extend the capabilities of an application by adding custom commands and specialized features. One of the new features is the Office Store. Plugins and other tools can be downloaded by users. Developers can make money by selling their applications in the Office Store. The revenue is divided between the developer and Microsoft where the developer gets 80% of the money. Developers are able to share applications with all Office users.

The app travels with the document, and it is for the developer to decide what the recipient will see when they open it. The recipient will either have the option to download the app from the Office Store for free, start a free trial or be directed to payment. With Office's cloud abilities, IT departments can create a set of apps for their business employees in order to increase their productivity. When employees go to the Office Store, they'll see their company's apps under My Organization. The apps that employees have personally downloaded will appear under My Apps. Developers can use web technologies like HTML5, XML, CSS3, JavaScript, and APIs for building the apps. An application for Office is a webpage that is hosted inside an Office client application. Users can use apps to amplify the functionality of a document, email message, meeting request, or appointment. Apps can run in multiple environments and by multiple clients, including rich Office desktop clients, Office Web Apps, mobile browsers, and also on-premises and in the cloud. The type of add-ins supported differ by Office versions:

Password protection

Microsoft Office has a security feature that allows users to encrypt Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Skype Business) documents with a user-provided password. The password can contain up to 255 characters and uses AES 128-bit advanced encryption by default. Passwords can also be used to restrict modification of the entire document, worksheet or presentation. Due to lack of document encryption, though, these passwords can be removed using a third-party cracking software.

Support policies

All versions of Microsoft Office products from Office 2000 to Office 2016 are eligible for ten years of support following their release, during which Microsoft releases security updates for the product version and provides paid technical support. The ten-year period is divided into two five-year phases: The mainstream phase and the extended phase. During the mainstream phase, Microsoft may provide limited complimentary technical support and release non-security updates or change the design of the product. During the extended phase, said services stop. Office 2019 only receives 5 years of mainstream and 2 years of extended support and Office 2021 only gets 5 years of mainstream support.

Timelines of support

Microsoft supports Office for the Windows and macOS platforms, as well as mobile versions for Windows Phone, Android and iOS platforms. Beginning with Mac Office 4.2, the macOS and Windows versions of Office share the same file format, and are interoperable. Visual Basic for Applications support was dropped in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, then reintroduced in Office for Mac 2011.

Microsoft tried in the mid-1990s to port Office to RISC processors such as NEC/ MIPS and IBM/ PowerPC, but they met problems such as memory access being hampered by data structure alignment requirements. Microsoft Word 97 and Excel 97, however, did ship for the DEC Alpha platform. Difficulties in porting Office may have been a factor in discontinuing Windows NT on non-Intel platforms.

Pricing model and editions

The Microsoft Office applications and suites are sold via retail channels, and volume licensing for larger organizations (also including the "Home Use Program". allowing users at participating organizations to buy low-cost licenses for use on their personal devices as part of their employer's volume license agreement).

In 2010, Microsoft introduced a software as a service platform known as Office 365, to provide cloud-hosted versions of Office's server software, including Exchange e-mail and SharePoint, on a subscription basis (competing in particular with Google Apps). Following the release of Office 2013, Microsoft began to offer Office 365 plans for the consumer market, with access to Microsoft Office software on multiple devices with free feature updates over the life of the subscription, as well as other services such as OneDrive storage.

Microsoft has since promoted Office 365 as the primary means of purchasing Microsoft Office. Although there are still "on-premises" releases roughly every three years, Microsoft marketing emphasizes that they do not receive new features or access to new cloud-based services as they are released unlike Office 365, as well as other benefits for consumer and business markets. Office 365 revenue overtook traditional license sales for Office in 2017.

Microsoft Office is available in several editions, which regroup a given number of applications for a specific price. Primarily, Microsoft sells Office as Microsoft 365. The editions are as follows:

Microsoft 365 Personal

Microsoft 365 Family

Microsoft 365 Business Basic

Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Microsoft 365 apps for business

Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise

Office 365 E1, E3, E5

Office 365 A1, A3, A5 (for education)

Office 365 G1, G3, G5 (for government)

Microsoft 365 F1, F3, Office 365 F3 (for frontline)

Microsoft sells Office for a one-time purchase as Home & Student and Home & Business, however, these editions do not receive major updates.

Education pricing

Post-secondary students may obtain the University edition of Microsoft Office 365 subscription. It is limited to one user and two devices, plus the subscription price is valid for four years instead of just one. Apart from this, the University edition is identical in features to the Home Premium version. This marks the first time Microsoft does not offer physical or permanent software at academic pricing, in contrast to the University versions of Office 2010 and Office 2011. In addition, students eligible for DreamSpark program may receive select standalone Microsoft Office apps free of charge.

Discontinued applications and features

Binder was an application that can incorporate several documents into one file and was originally designed as a container system for storing related documents in a single file. The complexity of use and learning curve led to little usage, and it was discontinued after Office XP.

Bookshelf was a reference collection introduced in 1987 as part of Microsoft's extensive work in promoting CD-ROM technology as a distribution medium for electronic publishing.

Data Analyzer was a business intelligence program for graphical visualization of data and its analysis.

Docs.com was a public document sharing service where Office users can upload and share Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Sway and PDF files for the whole world to discover and use.

Entourage was an Outlook counterpart on macOS, Microsoft discontinued it in favor of extending the Outlook brand name.

FrontPage was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool for Windows. It was branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2003. FrontPage was discontinued in December 2006 and replaced by Microsoft SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Expression Web.

InfoPath was a Windows application for designing and distributing rich XML-based forms. The last version was included in Office 2013.

InterConnect was a business-relationship database available only in Japan.

Internet Explorer was a graphical web browser and one of the main participants of the first browser war. It was included in Office until Office XP when it was removed.

Mail was a mail client (in old versions of Office, later replaced by Microsoft Schedule Plus and subsequently Microsoft Outlook).

Office Accounting (formerly Small Business Accounting) was an accounting software application from Microsoft targeted towards small businesses that had between 1 and 25 employees.

Office Assistant (included since Office 97 on Windows and Office 98 on Mac as a part of Microsoft Agent technology) was a system that uses animated characters to offer context-sensitive suggestions to users and access to the help system. The Assistant is often dubbed "Clippy" or "Clippit", due to its default to a paper clip character, coded as CLIPPIT.ACS. The latest versions that include the Office Assistant were Office 2003 (Windows) and Office 2004 (Mac).

Office Document Image Writer was a virtual printer that takes documents from Microsoft Office or any other application and prints them, or stores them in an image file as TIFF or Microsoft Document Imaging Format format. It was discontinued with Office 2010.

Office Document Imaging was an application that supports editing scanned documents. Discontinued Office 2010.

Office Document Scanning was a scanning and OCR application. Discontinued Office 2010.

Office Picture Manager was a basic photo management software (similar to Google's Picasa or Adobe's Photoshop Elements), that replaced Microsoft Photo Editor.

PhotoDraw was a graphics program that was first released as part of the Office 2000 Premium Edition. A later version for Windows XP compatibility was released, known as PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2. Microsoft discontinued the program in 2001.

Photo Editor was photo-editing or raster-graphics software in older Office versions up to Office XP. It was supplemented by Microsoft PhotoDraw in Office 2000 Premium edition.

Schedule Plus (also shown as Schedule+) was released with Office 95. It featured a planner, to-do list, and contact information. Its functions were incorporated into Microsoft Outlook.

SharePoint Designer was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool. Microsoft attempted to turn it into a specialized HTML editor for SharePoint sites, but failed on this project and wanted to discontinue it.

SharePoint Workspace (formerly Groove) was a proprietary peer-to-peer document collaboration software designed for teams with members who are regularly offline or who do not share the same network security clearance.

Skype for Business was an integrated communications client for conferences and meetings in real-time; it is the only Microsoft Office desktop app that is neither useful without a proper network infrastructure nor has the "Microsoft" prefix in its name.

Streets & Trips (known in other countries as Microsoft AutoRoute) is a discontinued mapping program developed and distributed by Microsoft.

Unbind is a program that can extract the contents of a Binder file. Unbind can be installed from the Office XP CD-ROM.

Virtual PC was included with Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2004 for Mac. Microsoft discontinued support for Virtual PC on the Mac in 2006 owing to new Macs possessing the same Intel architecture as Windows PCs. It emulated a standard PC and its hardware.

Vizact was a program that "activated" documents using HTML, adding effects such as animation. It allows users to create dynamic documents for the Web. The development has ended due to unpopularity.

Discontinued server applications

Discontinued web services

Office Live

Office Live Small Business had web hosting services and online collaboration tools for small businesses.

Office Live Workspace had online storage and collaboration service for documents, which was superseded by Office on the web.

Office Live Meeting was a web conferencing service.

In January 2022, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy appeared on Fox News and criticized changes to Microsoft Editor that substituted gender-neutral forms of some words for equivalent gendered terms: "postal carrier" or "mail carrier" in place of "mailman," for example.

Data formats

Microsoft Office has been criticized in the past for using proprietary file formats rather than open standards, which forces users who share data into adopting the same software platform. However, on February 15, 2008, Microsoft made the entire documentation for the binary Office formats freely available under the Open Specification Promise. Also, Office Open XML, the document format for the latest versions of Office for Windows and Mac, has been standardized under both Ecma International and ISO. Ecma International has published the Office Open XML specification free of copyrights and Microsoft has granted patent rights to the formats technology under the Open Specification Promise and has made available free downloadable converters for previous versions of Microsoft Office including Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000 and Office 2004 for the Mac. Third-party implementations of Office Open XML exist on the Mac platform (iWork 08) and Linux ( OpenOffice.org 2.3 - Novell Edition only).

Unicode and bi-directional texts

Another point of criticism Microsoft Office has faced was the lack of support in its Mac versions for Unicode and Bi-directional text languages, notably Arabic and Hebrew. This issue, which had existed since the first release in 1989, was addressed in the 2016 version.

On November 13, 2018, a report initiated by the Government of the Netherlands concluded that Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 365 do not comply with GDPR, the European law which regulates data protection and privacy for all citizens in and outside the EU and EFTA region. The investigation was initiated by the observation that Microsoft does not reveal or share publicly any data collected about users of its software. In addition, the company does not provide users of its (Office) software an option to turn off diagnostic and telemetry data sent back to the company. Researchers found that most of the data that the Microsoft software collects and "sends home" is diagnostics. Researchers also observed that Microsoft "seemingly tried to make the system GDPR compliant by storing Office documents on servers based in the EU". However, they discovered the software packages collected additional data that contained private user information, some of which was stored on servers located in the US. The Netherlands Ministry of Justice hired Privacy Company to probe and evaluate the use of Microsoft Office products in the public sector. "Microsoft systematically collects data on a large scale about the individual use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Covertly, without informing people", researchers of the Privacy Company stated in their blog post. "Microsoft does not offer any choice with regard to the amount of data, or possibility to switch off the collection, or ability to see what data are collected, because the data stream is encoded."

The researchers commented that there is no need for Microsoft to store information such as IPs and email addresses, which are collected automatically by the software. "Microsoft should not store these transient, functional data, unless the retention is strictly necessary, for example, for security purposes", the researchers conclude in the final report by the Netherlands Ministry of Justice.

As a result of this in-depth study and its conclusions, the Netherlands regulatory body concluded that Microsoft has violated GDPR "on many counts" including "lack of transparency and purpose limitation, and the lack of a legal ground for the processing." Microsoft has provided the Dutch authorities with an "improvement plan" that should satisfy Dutch regulators that it "would end all violations". The Dutch regulatory body is monitoring the situation and states that "If progress is deemed insufficient or if the improvements offered are unsatisfactory, SLM Microsoft Rijk will reconsider its position and may ask the Data Protection Authority to carry out a prior consultation and to impose enforcement measures." When asked for a response by an IT professional publication, a Microsoft spokesperson stated: We are committed to our customers' privacy, putting them in control of their data and ensuring that Office ProPlus and other Microsoft products and services comply with GDPR and other applicable laws. We appreciate the opportunity to discuss our diagnostic data handling practices in Office ProPlus with the Dutch Ministry of Justice and look forward to a successful resolution of any concerns." The user privacy data issue affects ProPlus subscriptions of Microsoft Office 2016 and Microsoft Office 365, including the online version of Microsoft Office 365.

History of releases

Older version, still maintained

Version history

Windows versions

Microsoft Office for Windows

Microsoft Office for Windows 1.5 updated the suite with Microsoft Excel 3.0.

Microsoft Office 3.0

Microsoft Office 3.0, also called Microsoft Office 92, was released on August 30, 1992, and contained Word 2.0, Excel 4.0, PowerPoint 3.0 and Mail 3.0. It was the first version of Office also released on CD-ROM. In 1993, Microsoft Office Professional was released, which added Microsoft Access 1.1.

Microsoft Office 4.x

Microsoft Office 4.0 was released containing Word 6.0, Excel 4.0a, PowerPoint 3.0 and Mail in 1993. Word's version number jumped from 2.0 to 6.0 so that it would have the same version number as the MS-DOS and Macintosh versions (Excel and PowerPoint were already numbered the same as the Macintosh versions).

Microsoft Office 4.2 for Windows NT was released in 1994 for i386, Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC architectures, containing Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 (both 32-bit, PowerPoint 4.0 (16-bit), and Microsoft Office Manager 4.2 (the precursor to the Office Shortcut Bar)).

Microsoft Office 95

Microsoft Office 95 was released on August 24, 1995. Software version numbers were altered again to create parity across the suite - every program was called version 7.0 meaning all but Word missed out versions. Office 95 included new components to the suite such as Schedule+ and Binder. Office for Windows 95 was designed as a fully 32-bit version to match Windows 95 although some apps not bundled as part of the suite at that time - Publisher for Windows 95 and Project 95 had some 16-bit components even though their main program executable was 32-bit.

Office 95 was available in two versions, Office 95 Standard and Office 95 Professional. The standard version consisted of Word 7.0, Excel 7.0, PowerPoint 7.0, and Schedule+ 7.0. The professional edition contained all of the items in the standard version plus Access 7.0. If the professional version was purchased in CD-ROM form, it also included Bookshelf.

The logo used in Office 95 returns in Office 97, 2000 and XP. Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition also uses a similar logo.

Microsoft Office 97

Microsoft Office 97 (Office 8.0) included hundreds of new features and improvements, such as introducing command bars, a paradigm in which menus and toolbars were made more similar in capability and visual design. Office 97 also featured Natural Language Systems and grammar checking. Office 97 featured new components to the suite including FrontPage 97, Expedia Streets 98 (in Small Business Edition), and Internet Explorer 3.0 & 4.0.

Office 97 was the first version of Office to include the Office Assistant. In Brazil, it was also the first version to introduce the Registration Wizard, a precursor to Microsoft Product Activation. With this release, the accompanying apps, Project 98 and Publisher 98 also transitioned to fully 32-bit versions. Exchange Server, a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft, is the server for Outlook after discontinuing Exchange Client.

Microsoft Office 2000

Microsoft Office 2000 (Office 9.0) introduced adaptive menus, where little-used options were hidden from the user. It also introduced a new security feature, built around digital signatures, to diminish the threat of macro viruses. The Microsoft Script Editor, an optional tool that can edit script code, was also introduced in Office 2000. Office 2000 automatically trusts macros (written in VBA 6) that were digitally signed from authors who have been previously designated as trusted. Office 2000 also introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and vector imaging program, as well as Web Components, Visio, and Vizact.

The Registration Wizard, a precursor to Microsoft Product Activation, remained in Brazil and was also extended to Australia and New Zealand, though not for volume-licensed editions. Academic software in the United States and Canada also featured the Registration Wizard.

Microsoft Office XP

Microsoft Office XP (Office 10.0 or Office 2002) was released in conjunction with Windows XP, and was a major upgrade with numerous enhancements and changes over Office 2000. Office XP introduced the Safe Mode feature, which allows applications such as Outlook to boot when it might otherwise fail by bypassing a corrupted registry or a faulty add-in. Smart tag is a technology introduced with Office XP in Word and Excel and discontinued in Office 2010.

Office XP also introduces new components including Document Imaging, Document Scanning, Clip Organizer, MapPoint, and Data Analyzer. Binder was replaced by Unbind, a program that can extract the contents of a Binder file. Unbind can be installed from the Office XP CD-ROM.

Office XP includes integrated voice command and text dictation capabilities, as well as handwriting recognition. It was the first version to require Microsoft Product Activation worldwide and in all editions as an anti-piracy measure, which attracted widespread controversy. Product Activation remained absent from Office for Mac releases until it was introduced in Office 2011 for Mac.

Microsoft Office 2003

Microsoft Office 2003 (Office 11.0) was released in 2003. It featured a new logo. Two new applications made their debut in Office 2003: Microsoft InfoPath and OneNote. It is the first version to use new, more colorful icons. Outlook 2003 provides improved functionality in many areas, including Kerberos authentication, RPC over HTTP, Cached Exchange Mode, and an improved junk mail filter.

Office 2003 introduces three new programs to the Office product lineup: InfoPath, a program for designing, filling, and submitting electronic structured data forms; OneNote, a note-taking program for creating and organizing diagrams, graphics, handwritten notes, recorded audio, and text; and the Picture Manager graphics software which can open, manage, and share digital images.

SharePoint, a web collaboration platform codenamed as Office Server, has integration and compatibility with Office 2003 and so on.

Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 (Office 12.0) was released in 2007. Office 2007's new features include a new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface, replacing the menus and toolbars that have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception with a tabbed toolbar, known as the Ribbon; new XML-based file formats called Office Open XML; and the inclusion of Groove, a collaborative software application.

While Microsoft removed Data Analyzer, FrontPage, Vizact, and Schedule+ from Office 2007; they also added Communicator, Groove, SharePoint Designer, and Office Customization Tool (OCT) to the suite.

Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 (Office 14.0, Microsoft skipped 13.0 due to fear of 13) was finalized on April 15, 2010, and made available to consumers on June 15, 2010. The main features of Office 2010 include the backstage file menu, new collaboration tools, a customizable ribbon, protected view and a navigation panel. Office Communicator, an instant messaging and videotelephony application, was renamed into Lync 2010.

This is the first version to ship in 32-bit and 64-bit variants. Microsoft Office 2010 featured a new logo, which resembled the 2007 logo, except in gold, and with a modification in shape. Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 on June 28, 2011 and Service Pack 2 on July 16, 2013. Office Online was first released online along with SkyDrive, an online storing service.

Microsoft Office 2013

A technical preview of Microsoft Office 2013 (Build 15.0.3612.1010) was released on January 30, 2012, and a Customer Preview version was made available to consumers on July 16, 2012. It sports a revamped application interface; the interface is based on Metro, the interface of Windows Phone and Windows 8. Microsoft Outlook has received the most pronounced changes so far; for example, the Metro interface provides a new visualization for scheduled tasks. PowerPoint includes more templates and transition effects, and OneNote includes a new splash screen.

On May 16, 2011, new images of Office 15 were revealed, showing Excel with a tool for filtering data in a timeline, the ability to convert Roman numerals to Arabic numerals, and the integration of advanced trigonometric functions. In Word, the capability of inserting video and audio online as well as the broadcasting of documents on the Web were implemented. Microsoft has promised support for Office Open XML Strict starting with version 15, a format Microsoft has submitted to the ISO for interoperability with other office suites, and to aid adoption in the public sector. This version can read and write ODF 1.2 (Windows only).

On October 24, 2012, Office 2013 Professional Plus was released to manufacturing and was made available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers for download. On November 15, 2012, the 60-day trial version was released for public download. Office 2013 was released to general availability on January 29, 2013. Service Pack 1 for Office 2013 was released on February 25, 2014. Some applications were completely removed from the entire suite including SharePoint Workspace, Clip Organizer, and Office Picture Manager.

Microsoft Office 2016

On January 22, 2015, the Microsoft Office blog announced that the next version of the suite for Windows desktop, Office 2016, was in development. On May 4, 2015, a public preview of Microsoft Office 2016 was released. Office 2016 was released for Mac OS X on July 9, 2015 and for Windows on September 22, 2015.

Users who had the Professional Plus 2016 subscription have the new Skype for Business app. Microsoft Teams, a team collaboration program meant to rival Slack, was released as a separate product for business and enterprise users.

Microsoft Office 2019

On September 26, 2017, Microsoft announced that the next version of the suite for Windows desktop, Office 2019, was in development. On April 27, 2018, Microsoft released Office 2019 Commercial Preview for Windows 10. It was released to general availability for Windows 10 and for macOS on September 24, 2018.

Microsoft Office 2021

Mac versions

Prior to packaging its various office-type Mac OS software applications into Office, Microsoft released Mac versions of Word 1.0 in 1984, the first year of the Macintosh computer; Excel 1.0 in 1985; and PowerPoint 1.0 in 1987. Microsoft does not include its Access database application in Office for Mac.

Microsoft has noted that some features are added to Office for Mac before they appear in Windows versions, such as Office for Mac 2001's Office Project Gallery and PowerPoint Movie feature, which allows users to save presentations as QuickTime movies. However, Microsoft Office for Mac has been long criticized for its lack of support of Unicode and for its lack of support for right-to-left languages, notably Arabic, Hebrew and Persian.

Early Office for Mac releases (1989-1994)

Microsoft Office for Mac was introduced for Mac OS in 1989, before Office was released for Windows. It included Word 4.0, Excel 2.2, PowerPoint 2.01, and Mail 1.37. It was originally a limited-time promotion but later became a regular product. With the release of Office on CD-ROM later that year, Microsoft became the first major Mac publisher to put its applications on CD-ROM.

Microsoft Office 1.5 for Mac was released in 1991 and included the updated Excel 3.0, the first application to support Apple's System 7 operating system.

Microsoft Office 3.0 for Mac was released in 1992 and included Word 5.0, Excel 4.0, PowerPoint 3.0 and Mail Client. Excel 4.0 was the first application to support new AppleScript.

Microsoft Office 4.2 for Mac was released in 1994. (Version 4.0 was skipped to synchronize version numbers with Office for Windows) Version 4.2 included Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0 and Mail 3.2. It was the first Office suite for Power Macintosh. Its user interface was identical to Office 4.2 for Windows leading many customers to comment that it wasn't Mac-like enough. The final release for Mac 68K was Office 4.2.1, which updated Word to version 6.0.1, somewhat improving performance.

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition was unveiled at MacWorld Expo/San Francisco in 1998. It introduced the Internet Explorer 4.0 web browser and Outlook Express, an Internet e-mail client and usenet newsgroup reader. Office 98 was re-engineered by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit to satisfy customers' desire for software they felt was more Mac-like. It included drag-and-drop installation, self-repairing applications and Quick Thesaurus, before such features were available in Office for Windows. It also was the first version to support QuickTime movies.

Microsoft Office 2001 and v. X

Microsoft Office 2001 was launched in 2000 as the last Office suite for the classic Mac OS. It required a PowerPC processor. This version introduced Entourage, an e-mail client that included information management tools such as a calendar, an address book, task lists and notes. Microsoft Office v. X was released in 2001 and was the first version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS X. Support for Office v. X ended on January 9, 2007, after the release of the final update, 10.1.9 Office v.X includes Word X, Excel X, PowerPoint X, Entourage X, MSN Messenger for Mac and Windows Media Player 9 for Mac; it was the last version of Office for Mac to include Internet Explorer for Mac.

Office 2004

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac was released on May 11, 2004. It includes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage and Virtual PC. It is the final version of Office to be built exclusively for PowerPC and to officially support G3 processors, as its sequel lists a G4, G5, or Intel processor as a requirement. It was notable for supporting Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which is unavailable in Office 2008. This led Microsoft to extend support for Office 2004 from October 13, 2009, to January 10, 2012. VBA functionality was reintroduced in Office 2011, which is only compatible with Intel processors.

Office 2008

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac was released on January 15, 2008. It was the only Office for Mac suite to be compiled as a universal binary, being the first to feature native Intel support and the last to feature PowerPC support for G4 and G5 processors, although the suite is unofficially compatible with G3 processors. New features include native Office Open XML file format support, which debuted in Office 2007 for Windows, and stronger Microsoft Office password protection employing AES-128 and SHA-1. Benchmarks suggested that compared to its predecessor, Office 2008 ran at similar speeds on Intel machines and slower speeds on PowerPC machines. Office 2008 also lacked Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support, leaving it with only 15 months of additional mainstream support compared to its predecessor. Nevertheless, five months after it was released, Microsoft said that Office 2008 was "selling faster than any previous version of Office for Mac in the past 19 years" and affirmed "its commitment to future products for the Mac."

Office 2011

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 was released on October 26, 2010,. It is the first version of Office for Mac to be compiled exclusively for Intel processors, dropping support for the PowerPC architecture. It features an OS X version of Outlook to replace the Entourage email client. This version of Outlook is intended to make the OS X version of Office work better with Microsoft's Exchange server and with those using Office for Windows. Office 2011 includes a Mac-based Ribbon similar to Office for Windows.

OneNote and Outlook release (2014)

Microsoft OneNote for Mac was released on March 17, 2014. It marks the company's first release of the note-taking software on the Mac. It is available as a free download to all users of the Mac App Store in OS X Mavericks.

Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac debuted on October 31, 2014. It requires a paid Office 365 subscription, meaning that traditional Office 2011 retail or volume licenses cannot activate this version of Outlook. On that day, Microsoft confirmed that it would release the next version of Office for Mac in late 2015.

Despite dropping support for older versions of OS X and only keeping support for 64-bit-only versions of OS X, these versions of OneNote and Outlook are 32-bit applications like their predecessors.

Office 2016

Office 2019

Mobile versions

Office Mobile for iPhone was released on June 14, 2013, in the United States. Support for 135 markets and 27 languages was rolled out over a few days. It requires iOS 8 or later. Although the app also works on iPad devices, excluding the first generation, it is designed for a small screen. Office Mobile was released for Android phones on July 31, 2013, in the United States. Support for 117 markets and 33 languages was added gradually over several weeks. It is supported on Android 4.0 and later.

Office Mobile is or was also available, though no longer supported, on Windows Mobile, Windows Phone and Symbian. There was also Office RT, a touch-optimized version of the standard desktop Office suite, pre-installed on Windows RT.

Early Office Mobile releases

Originally called Office Mobile which was shipped initially as "Pocket Office", was released by Microsoft with the Windows CE 1.0 operating system in 1996. This release was specifically for the Handheld PC hardware platform, as Windows Mobile Smartphone and Pocket PC hardware specifications had not yet been released. It consisted of Pocket Word and Pocket Excel; PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook were added later. With steady updates throughout subsequent releases of Windows Mobile, Office Mobile was rebranded as its current name after the release of the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system. This release of Office Mobile also included PowerPoint Mobile for the first time. Accompanying the release of Microsoft OneNote 2007, a new optional addition to the Office Mobile line of programs was released as OneNote Mobile. With the release of Windows Mobile 6 Standard, Office Mobile became available for the Smartphone hardware platform, but unlike Office Mobile for the Professional and Classic versions of Windows Mobile, creation of new documents is not an added feature. A popular workaround is to create a new blank document in a desktop version of Office, synchronize it to the device, and then edit and save on the Windows Mobile device.

In June 2007, Microsoft announced a new version of the office suite, Office Mobile 2007. It became available as "Office Mobile 6.1" on September 26, 2007, as a free upgrade download to current Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6 users. However, "Office Mobile 6.1 Upgrade" is not compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0 powered devices running builds earlier than 14847. It is a pre-installed feature in subsequent releases of Windows Mobile 6 devices. Office Mobile 6.1 is compatible with the Office Open XML specification like its desktop counterpart.

On August 12, 2009, it was announced that Office Mobile would also be released for the Symbian platform as a joint agreement between Microsoft and Nokia. It was the first time Microsoft would develop Office mobile applications for another smartphone platform. The first application to appear on Nokia Eseries smartphones was Microsoft Office Communicator. In February 2012, Microsoft released OneNote, Lync 2010, Document Connection and PowerPoint Broadcast for Symbian. In April, Word Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile and Excel Mobile joined the Office Suite.

On October 21, 2010, Microsoft debuted Office Mobile 2010 with the release of Windows Phone 7. In Windows Phone, users can access and edit documents directly off of their SkyDrive or Office 365 accounts in a dedicated Office hub. The Office Hub, which is preinstalled into the operating system, contains Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The operating system also includes OneNote, although not as a part of the Office Hub. Lync is not included, but can be downloaded as standalone app from the Windows Phone Store free of charge.

In October 2012, Microsoft released a new version of Microsoft Office Mobile for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8.

Office for Android, iOS and Windows 10 Mobile

Office Mobile was released for iPhone on June 14, 2013, and for Android phones on July 31, 2013.

In March 2014, Microsoft released Office Lens, a scanner app that enhances photos. Photos are then attached to an Office document. Office Lens is an app in the Windows Phone store, as well as built into the camera functionality in the OneNote apps for iOS and Windows 8.

On March 27, 2014, Microsoft launched Office for iPad, the first dedicated version of Office for tablet computers. In addition, Microsoft made the Android and iOS versions of Office Mobile free for 'home use' on phones, although the company still requires an Office 365 subscription for using Office Mobile for business use. On November 6, 2014, Office was subsequently made free for personal use on the iPad in addition to phones. As part of this announcement, Microsoft also split up its single "Office suite" app on iPhones into separate, standalone apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, released a revamped version of Office Mobile for iPhone, added direct integration with Dropbox, and previewed future versions of Office for other platforms.

On January 21, 2015, during the "Windows 10: The Next Chapter" press event, Microsoft unveiled Office for Windows 10, Windows Runtime ports of the Android and iOS versions of the Office Mobile suite. Optimized for smartphones and tablets, they are universal apps that can run on both Windows and Windows for phones, and share similar underlying code. A simplified version of Outlook was also added to the suite. They will be bundled with Windows 10 mobile devices, and available from the Windows Store for the PC version of Windows 10. Although the preview versions were free for most editing, the release versions will require an Office 365 subscription on larger tablets (screen size larger than 10.1 inches) and desktops for editing, as with large Android tablets. Smaller tablets and phones will have most editing features for free.

On June 24, 2015, Microsoft released Word, Excel and PowerPoint as standalone apps on Google Play for Android phones, following a one-month preview. These apps have also been bundled with Android devices from major OEMs, as a result of Microsoft tying distribution of them and Skype to patent-licensing agreements related to the Android platform. The Android version is also supported on certain Chrome OS machines.

On February 19, 2020, Microsoft announced a new unified Office mobile app for Android and iOS. This app combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single app and introduces new capabilities as making quick notes, signing PDFs, scanning QR codes, and transferring files.

Online versions

Office Web Apps was first revealed in October 2008 at PDC 2008 in Los Angeles. Chris Capossela, senior vice president of Microsoft business division, introduced Office Web Apps as lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that allow people to create, edit and collaborate on Office documents through a web browser. According to Capossela, Office Web Apps was to become available as a part of Office Live Workspace. Office Web Apps was announced to be powered by AJAX as well as Silverlight; however, the latter is optional and its availability will only "enhance the user experience, resulting in sharper images and improved rendering." Microsoft's Business Division President Stephen Elop stated during PDC 2008 that "a technology preview of Office Web Apps would become available later in 2008". However, the Technical Preview of Office Web Apps was not released until 2009.

On July 13, 2009, Microsoft announced at its Worldwide Partners Conference 2009 in New Orleans that Microsoft Office 2010 reached its "Technical Preview" development milestone and features of Office Web Apps were demonstrated to the public for the first time. Additionally, Microsoft announced that Office Web Apps would be made available to consumers online and free of charge, while Microsoft Software Assurance customers will have the option of running them on premises. Office 2010 beta testers were not given access to Office Web Apps at this date, and it was announced that it would be available for testers during August 2009. However, in August 2009, a Microsoft spokesperson stated that there had been a delay in the release of Office Web Apps Technical Preview and it would not be available by the end of August.

Microsoft officially released the Technical Preview of Office Web Apps on September 17, 2009. Office Web Apps was made available to selected testers via its OneDrive (at the time Skydrive) service. The final version of Office Web Apps was made available to the public via Windows Live Office on June 7, 2010.

On October 22, 2012, Microsoft announced the release of new features including co-authoring, performance improvements and touch support.

On November 6, 2013, Microsoft announced further new features including real-time co-authoring and an Auto-Save feature in Word (replacing the save button).

In February 2014, Office Web Apps were re-branded Office Online and incorporated into other Microsoft web services, including Calendar, OneDrive, Outlook.com, and People. Microsoft had previously attempted to unify its online services suite (including Microsoft Passport, Hotmail, MSN Messenger, and later SkyDrive) under a brand known as Windows Live, first launched in 2005. However, with the impending launch of Windows 8 and its increased use of cloud services, Microsoft dropped the Windows Live brand to emphasize that these services would now be built directly into Windows and not merely be a "bolted on" add-on. Critics had criticized the Windows Live brand for having no clear vision, as it was being applied to an increasingly broad array of unrelated services. At the same time, Windows Live Hotmail was re-launched as Outlook.com (sharing its name with the Microsoft Outlook personal information manager).

In July 2019, Microsoft announced that they were retiring the "Online" branding for Office Online. The product is now Office, and may be referred to as "Office for the web" or "Office in a browser".

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