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.

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 ...

Microsoft released a bunch of public betas of various Office 2010 products this week. But it also released another one under non-disclosure to a select group of testers: Office Starter 2010. Microsoft ...

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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 ...

Microsoft today announced new ways for consumers to try and buy Office 2010, the next version of the company's productivity suite slated for release in the first half of next year. The company ...

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 ...