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Microsoft To Try Works As Adware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the penny-for-your-eyeballs dept.

Several readers noted that Microsoft has announced plans to pre-install an ad-laden version of Works on some manufacturers' PCs in coming months. Works is Microsoft's lightweight docs-and-spreadsheets software. The manufacturers involved were not disclosed. The adware Works will come with a pre-installed cache of ads that will be refreshed when the machine is online. Microsoft will decide by mid-2008 whether it can afford to forgo the $40 normally charged for Works.

3 of 246 comments (clear)

  1. Re:HP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man... you really *are* cool! Sweet story! My favorite part was when you zapped both!

    I'm sorry, but the whole "I bought a PC, and then erased Windows immediately!!!1" badge of honor is tired. Nobody cares. Nobody is impressed.

  2. this.. by Verunks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    will not Works

  3. Re:Switch! by Drachemorder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it the ads that bother you? Slashdot is adware, you know.
    Really? I hadn't noticed.