Microsoft announced today that it will abandon its decades-old Works entry-level suite, and will instead offer a stripped-down, advertising-supported version of Office 2010 on new PCs next year.

Microsoft is soliciting existing Office Live Workspace users to be part of a pool of testers for its forthcoming, free (but ad-supported) Office Starter 2010 product. The ithinkdiff.com enthusiast ...

More information is coming in from various testers regarding the Office Starter 2010 build that Microsoft released to a group of selected testers late last week. Office Starter 2010 is the ...

Office Starter 2010 comprises Word Starter 2010 and Excel Starter 2010, stripped down versions of the major components of the suite. Exactly how stripped down has yet to be seen, but according to ...

Coming 2010, your next PC will probably be pre-loaded with Microsoft Office Starter 2010. A free version of Office 2010 that will only include Word and Excel, capable of exchanging documents with the ...

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Microsoft has announced that it will revamp the way in which it offers its Office productivity suite to consumers via the introduction of a free, ad-supported offering that will be pre-loaded by PC ...

For the past few years Microsoft has been offering a free, ad-supported version of Office 2010 to customers that buy new Windows computers. It doesn’t have all the features you get with the full ...

Stripped down versions of Word and Excel are free and attractive - if you can ignore the huge advert on the screen When you buy a new Windows PC, it hardly comes ever with Microsoft’s Office suite of ...