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Microsoft Readies Ad-Supported Office Starter 2010

Posted by timothy on from the low-intensity-conflict dept.

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."

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  1. Does it come with a dildo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So users could also fuck themselves in the ass while using this?

    1. Re:Does it come with a dildo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      no, you're thinking of linux. they're the real dick sucking faggots. sucking their shit off the dicks of other faggots.

  2. Actually... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux users get lots of pussy. You are just jealous, M$/App|e fanboi.

  3. Re:GOOD MORNING SLASHDOT !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    when I read that, there was only one thing I could say: niggers.

  4. ...It smells like a french whorehouse in here.... by Bob_Who · · Score: 0, Troll
    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."

  5. OMG... deja moo... with ads... by advocate_one · · Score: 0, Troll

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

    --
    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
  6. Re:Can you uninstall it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The question will be whether you can uninstall it? I've got better things to do with my disk space and network bandwidth than support/tolerate adware.

    Hey the late 90s called, they want their complaint back. Jeesh people complained about this when we had 56kbps modems, and now with 25mbps you're still complaining. Come talk to me again when the ads feature high def motion video.

  7. Re:GOOD MORNING SLASHDOT !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is being a nigger a bad thing? They get Nobel Peace prizes for being very tanned.