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."

Comments

...It smells like a french whorehouse in here....

[Bob_Who]

It was only a matter of time before the inner slut came out to pander the genuine windows licensee. Selling MS Windows OS over and over is not enough for these vampires; Word Pad is just bad pimping. No more free bees you hos!

Now that the Boss has put a stop to employee gaming, p2p, porn, chatting, youtube and iTunes, the company workplace will be overjoyed that staff will instead be watching Red Bull, Old Spice, Midol, Chili's, McNuggets, and Iron Man III dancing across the desktop. I'm just glad to see the corporate ethic of "suck every buck possible out of everything, and exploit your customer to death". This way, shareholders get paid while, consumers feed the data mines. Software finally graduates into ad space pandering, just like the web, radio, cable and film. Its Eau de Cologne Bologne. I real "quickie."

OMG... deja moo... with ads...

[advocate_one]

MS Works all over again with file formats that nothing else can read... and adverts!!!