Friday, October 9, 2009

Office Starter 2010 Replaces Microsoft Works on new PCs

Announced via the Office 2010 Engineering blog ...

- There will be an ad-supported Office 2010 "Starter" edition that can come loaded on new PCs (Word and Excel) - designed as a replacement for Microsoft Works.

- Product key cards can be purchased which will unlock the consumer versions of Office 2010

- Office 2010 will support "Click to Run" streaming download model - instead of waiting for the whole product to download, users can click a button and start using the software as soon as some of the basics are downloaded - the rest of the product then gets downloaded over time.

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