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Office 2010 gets presales treatment
MICROSOFT HAS LEARNED from Windows 7 that one of the best ways to boost sales is to flog as much as possible on pre-sale.
Yesterday the Vole announced that it and its glorious allies are pushing Office 2010 pre-sales.
Under Via, which is the Volish reseller programme, Redmond is offering customers 20 per cent off Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 purchases plus an upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010 when it launches in June 2010.
Dubbed a "no better time promotion" it means that you get a discount now and a free copy later. Very similar with what it successfully tried with Vista and Windows 7.
It means that businesses do not wait until next year to upgrade and the Vole notches up sales of both its present software and the new product.
The promotion will last until December 31 and is aimed at businesses. We expect that Microsoft will come up with a similar a pre-order offer for the great unwashed after Christmas.
Pre-sales have the advantage that punters buy the product based on the advance hype rather than reviews or word of mouth about what it really does. µ
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Open Office and Evolution do just fine for me.
If curious just download the free beta. I've been running it for a few weeks and it's rather good really.
If it has an option to swap the ribbon for the classic button bar, I'd consider purchasing it. I'm sick of taking 3 clicks to do what used to take 1.
If it has an option to swap the ribbon for the classic button bar, I'd consider purchasing it. I'm sick of taking 3 clicks to do what used to take 1.
Seems like maybe you click a little too much.
As the title describes as far as I can tell its all about the 64-bit version.
Finally a full 64-bit everyday product.
Just hope they start on the games then all this nonesense of Supreme Commander cannot be as big as they want because the PC's arent upto scratch.
I am looking forward to OneNote 2010 and its features. Having been an avid Tablet PC user, about the only usable note organising software is OneNote. It is full of problems but nevertheless does the job.
Frankly I don't care about the truckloads of new collaboration features. The new handwritten equation recognising feature is good enough incentive for me.