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Dubbed Office Starter 2010, the new offering will serve as a handicapped edition of Office 2010, providing users with the ability to view, edit, and create documents via Word or Excel. Office Starter 2010 will be accompanied by advertisements, and despite the restricted functionality, Microsoft says it is "designed for casual Office users," who would be ok with the software's limitations. The company based its decision on the number of users who are displeased with Works as well as Office trials, and thus are not purchasing the company's complete productivity suite.
Being that the complete version of Office 2010 will already be installed on these systems, Microsoft plans to sell Product Key Cards via OEMs and major retail outlets. The cards will contain license numbers for the many consumer SKUs of Office, which will remove the constraints of Office Starter. Customers will also be able to download and buy Office 2010 online via Microsoft's new "Click-To-Run" technology. If a good old-fashioned disc is more your taste though, you will still be able to pick up Office 2010 on DVD, which will contain both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
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What about an option for us computer builders? Those are new computers after all. Why leave us out in the cold?
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I wonder how well it will fair against OpenOffice...
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9Nails said:
I wonder how well it will fair against OpenOffice...
Not sure. I, personally, have no opinion on OpenOffice since I do not use it. My son, though, went crazy after using it for a couple of weeks and bought himself MS Office student edition. I'd never use a software with advertisement embedded - so, if the price is a factor, it's, probably, OpenOffice for me.
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Redmond can do whatever they want. I won't be moving back from OpenOffice.
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tengeta said:
Yikes, I'll stick with Works for that basic stuff... and OpenOffice when I'm not in the mood to deal with BS.
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I won't be switching back from Open Office whatever they do.
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So far, Open Office doesn't work well with Office 2010 files for spreadsheets, power point, etc. But you can count on Open Office catching up fairly quickly.
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