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Microsoft Readies Ad-Supported Office Starter 2010
Martin writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "Microsoft Office Starter 2010 will be not available for purchase; it will only come pre-loaded on new PCs. It includes basic functionality so users can view, edit, and create documents via Office Word Starter 2010 and Office Excel Starter 2010. Not only are these programs ad-supported, but Microsoft claims they are 'designed for casual Office users,' who apparently will be perfectly fine with reduced-functionality and ad-supported software."
Well, let's buy ad space on it, and then advertise for Open Office.org!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
But these commercials are special - they help you concentrate and give you ideas by showing ads relevant to your document and the items on your desktop. It's a win/win.
Would you like to view a commercial for the US mail service?
In my experience, people who say they are satisfied rarely are.
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Just wait until the ads get hacked, or the DOJ makes them advertise Linux/OpenOffice as part of a settlement.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Office 10, that's so 2002. I think you mean Office 13.
Is that the one that turns into a disaster shortly after launch, but then they manage to rescue it whilst completely missing the mission objective? :)
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In my experience, that's what she says :-(
No. They'll just have a picture of some fat guy sitting in his mom's basement in his underpants with a speech bubble that says "All us hackers use OpenOffice.org! It is so 1337!".
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