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Microsoft Office 2010 will be 'free' with 2007
IT SEEMS Microsoft has pulled down a blog post that detailed a promotional offer for a free upgrade to Office 2010 if punters buy Office 2007 in a limited time frame.
According to Arstechnica, the post was by Charles Van Heusen on his 'In the Know' blog at Microsoft's US Partner Community website.
The offer is to run for customers who buy Office 2007 from an authorised vendor between March 5 and September 30, 2010.
Users must have activated their copy of Office 2007 by September 30 and can request the free upgrade to Office 2010 by October 31 at the latest, if they send Microsoft the Office 2007 activation key and purchase receipt. Once Microsoft has that information, it will offer punters a free download or send the DVD's out in the post for a minimal shipping fee.
Arstechnica caught the information on its RSS feed and while the original link is now down, the information was cached in Google so it has some screenshots of the offer.
We're assuming that Microsoft will be offering a similar service in the UK but here's a word of wisdom for you. If you do get a free upgrade offer, stick to the download and install. A lot of end users got their fingers burned on 'free' Windows 7 upgrades with some shipping fees costing upwards of £25.00. µ
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Not sure about the digital download bit at the end. Digital RIver's Win7 download process was hopeless - download went OK, but no key on any email correspondence. Repeated calls had to be made to USA before a valid Win7 key was obtained. Next time I'll just pay £10 - life's too short.
It's easy for some random stupid reader to criticise OpenOffice and use M$ office when they don't pay for it.
Pirating software is a crime because it make shitty software "standard" and "required".
Open Office is not "big", only around 130 mb in total compare that to 500 mb min for MS office.
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It is friendly and I have no issues with its productivity as I have used MSoffice 2003 2007 and Open Office. best of all its FREE.
If you do not like OpenOffice (too big and unfriendly) and Microsoft Office is too expensive than get something between.
Kingsoft Office for $39.95 is a good way to go. 100 days free trial helps too.
http://www.binarynow.com/products/kingsoft-office/
Get with the program, Open Office is really not that great. Office 2010 is super slick, has the ribbon bar which is a BIG productivity enhancer and of course integrates very nicely with all of the corporate apps like Office Server / Sharepoint. I've tried to use Open Office again recently and it's like using Office 98. Buttons are small and hard to figure out and everything just looks plain. You get what you pay for....
You can free yourself and save yourself allot of cash and download Open Office.