Microsoft Project
| Microsoft Project | |||||||||||
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Microsoft Project 2021 screenshot, showing a blank project | |||||||||||
| Developer | Microsoft | ||||||||||
| Initial release | 1984 | ||||||||||
| Stable release(s) | |||||||||||
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| Platform | Microsoft Windows | ||||||||||
| Type | Project management software | ||||||||||
| License | Proprietary | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
| Icons for .mpp (left) and .mpt (right) files | |
| MPP | Project |
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| MPT | Template |
| MPD | Database |
| MPW | Workspace |
| MPX | Project Exchange (Discontinued) |
| MSPDI | XML-based Project Data Interchange |
Microsoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a schedule, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets, and analyzing workloads. Microsoft Project for the web was set to retire on August 1, 2025. It is now a part of Microsoft Planner.
Microsoft Project was the company's third Microsoft Windows-based application. Within a few years after its launch, it became the dominant PC-based project management software. From 2015 to 2020 it was the most popular application for project management according to Project Management Zone. The application's proprietary file format is .mpp.