Hey, you know Microsoft Office, that thing you’ve been downloading illegally for free all these years? It would seem that Microsoft’s finally catching up with the current state of computing – in June, they’ll be offering it for free, for real.
In a move more than likely inspired by Google Docs’ sudden usefulness to people who want to be able to use one set of tools across the cloud, Microsoft will be releasing a free, ad-supported, online version of Office along side a more robust, un-free version in June. The hope is that, as approximately 90% of Office users are business users, they’ll prefer the traditional, expensive, fancy-pants Office anyway – after all, the last thing a high-powered exec wants is to have to look at an Evony ad while typing up a financial presentation.
[Via Seattle Times]
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@wingwinder
This is a fanboy’s blog!
Techi is good but the fanboyism brings its standards down to the toilet hole.
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Doesn’t really affect me until they release the mac version for free but Hooray MS is actually doing something good for once!
wingwinder
I’m sorry all i saw on this article was:
“I hate Microsoft lolololololol.”
Seriously, what the ***** is this?
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open soure can make VBA style interaction as simple as office only the ‘front end users’ making simple spreadsheets and powerpoints will prefer the much more basic open source