Microsoft Office 3.0 is a version of

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, the second major release for the

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and the third on the

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. Omitting version 2 entirely on Windows, Microsoft released Office 3.0 on August 30, 1992. Its main components included

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2.0c, Excel 4.0a, PowerPoint 3.0, and Mail, a network messaging client. Previously, these components were distributed separately for Windows, and it was with Microsoft Office that they were combined as a full

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. Versions for Macintosh were also updated to Word 5.1, which didn't exist for Windows. It was superseded by Microsoft Office 4.0.

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