

Outlook – The one email, calendar, contacts and tasks application to rule them all, Outlook continues to impress, though like Excel it hasn't been blessed with many upgrades in recent years. It might not be as lean as some of its newer rivals (like Google Slides) but it's hard to beat in terms of overall capabilities.

PowerPoint – The all-powerful presentation tool gets some new tricks in Office 2019, including support for advancing slides with Bluetooth pens, a new zoom interface for jumping between slides, and a cool morph transition.

New features have been thin on the ground in recent years, but that's only because it already has everything you're going to need – from crunching the numbers on the annual budget to organizing the tea rota. Excel – Packed with functions, no other spreadsheet program really comes close to Excel in terms of advanced capabilities.
