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By admin, October 9, 2009

Major Update: Microsoft Office has been made available or consumers worldwide. Secure your copy of Office 2010 right here.

Microsoft has just announced a path breaking move concerned with the release of Microsoft Office 2010. In a recent post by Office 2010 Engineering team, it has been announced that this time, Microsoft Office 2010 will reach its worldwide customerbase in a unique manner.

Microsoft is working with major PC/laptop/netbook manufacturers for the purpose of selling computer machines with Microsoft Office 2010, pre-installed on them. The pre-installed Office 2010 version will be called Office Starter 2010, which will basically be a reduced functionality, advertisement supported version of Office 2010. It will only include MS Word and Excel applications with much reduced feature set.

For upgrading the Office Starter 2010 to full version, the users will have to purchase the Product Key Card, which will be easily available at all the computer retail stores. Once the product key written on the Card is entered, Office Starter 2010 will get upgraded to Office Home & Student 2010, Office Home & Business or Office Professional 2010, whatever is purchased by the user. Note that the full version will be completely advertisement free.

For current PC manufacturers, Microsoft has provisioned a special technology called Click-to-Run, which would facilitate fast and easy download of Office 2010 trial version and purchasing Full version as well.

This technology would employ virtualization technique to enable end users, maintain multiple versions of Office application suite simultaneously(in case, somebody wants to try out Office 2010 and keep Office 2007 aside for regular use).

This is for the first time that Microsoft is pre-installing Office application suite, that too with advertisement based system. This move is for keeping the revenues flowing, even if the full version license is purchased by the end user or not.