Microsoft has stopped giving PC manufacturers a stripped-down version of the Office 2010 productivity suite to bundle with their computers. This week Microsoft stopped including Office Starter 2010 in ...

Microsoft has devised a way to introduce new PC buyers to its Office productivity suite through a "Starter" edition. The company has developed a "reduced functionality" version of Office called ...

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 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 ...

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 launched the latest version of Office today, with a new series of features and capabilities, including an entirely new basic flavor (dubbed Office 2010 Starter Edition) that replaces the ...

Get ready to say your goodbyes to Office Starter 2010, because Microsoft is already starting to do so. The Redmond software maker has reportedly begun letting its OEM partners known that it's phasing ...

Microsoft has announced official UK pricing for Office 2010. The bad news is that -- Microsoft being Microsoft -- there's a hatful of different versions, all at different price points, to twist your ...

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Microsoft is discontinuing its venerable Works program, an entry-level productivity suite for home users, and replacing it with Office Starter 2010, which will contain advertising. The announcement ...

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 ...