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Jan 6, 2010

MS unveils Office 2010 prices

SEATTLE - MICROSOFT Corp will sell four versions of the forthcoming Office 2010 software, due out in June, for prices ranging from US$99 to US$499.
The company said on Tuesday it will sell Office Home and Student edition, which comes with four core programs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, for US$149 as boxed software that can be used on three computers in the home. A 'Product Key Card,' which has a code to unlock one copy of Office 2010 pre-loaded on new PCs, costs US$119. Microsoft will sell an education-only version, Office Professional Academic, through campus book stores and some retailers for US$99. Besides the core programs, the academic version comes with the Outlook e-mail program, Publisher for desktop publishing and the Access database software.

Office Home and Business, which includes Outlook along with the four core programs, will cost US$297 as boxed software or US$199 for the Product Key Card. Microsoft said it would sell Office Professional, which has Outlook, Publisher, Access and premium technical support, for US$499 boxed or US$249 for the card. All the editions come with access to the new Office Web Apps, lightweight versions of Microsoft's core Office programs that work in a Web browser. The Redmond, Washington-based software maker has lagged behind Google Inc. in bringing to market word processing, spreadsheet and other software that runs in a Web browser instead of on a PC. But Microsoft is banking on computer users still wanting more formatting options and other features enough to pay for the full desktop versions. -- AP

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[Alamaking]

Worst applications ever :oIo::oIo::oIo:

 

[Ramseth]

this is free...while doing exactly the same thing...

http://www.openoffice.org/

I've tried. Very far from the same. The OpenOffice Writer (equivalent to Microsoft Office Word) can't even set up custom page margins as and when required. I can't find anything such as Page Setup or Margins setup functions. Everything is fixated on templates. If I've missed something, I'd appreciate if someone is helpful enough to enlighten me.

One great feature about OpenOffice, though, is the PDF export function. That's very useful and saves a lot money flowing to Adobe.

 

[po2wq]

I've tried. Very far from the same. The OpenOffice Writer (equivalent to Microsoft Office Word) can't even set up custom page margins as and when required. I can't find anything such as Page Setup or Margins setup functions. Everything is fixated on templates. If I've missed something, I'd appreciate if someone is helpful enough to enlighten me.

One great feature about OpenOffice, though, is the PDF export function. That's very useful and saves a lot money flowing to Adobe.

u started using ms-offis 1st ... u r xpecting oo 2 behave in ze same or @ least similar way as ms-offis ... u do not really noe swriter wel enuff ...

pdf export is nothing gr8 ... do a google n u can find a lot of free tools 2 do dat ... dose tools can work even in msword ...

 

[Ramseth]

u started using ms-offis 1st ... u r xpecting oo 2 behave in ze same or @ least similar way as ms-offis ... u do not really noe swriter wel enuff ...

pdf export is nothing gr8 ... do a google n u can find a lot of free tools 2 do dat ... even in msword ...

Yes, guess you're right. You're talking to one who's been using MS Word since Word 2 (DOS, no Windows) and Adobe Acrobat since Acrobat 3, and still owns original licensed CDs of these. Anyway, enough is enough. I'm trying to breakout and convert. Better late than never.

 

[johnny333]

You're talking to one who's been using MS Word since Word 2 (DOS, no Windows) ......r.

If you've already got an older version why bother to update


I've noticed that MS has a habit of adding unnecessary features to its SW.