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Microsoft Axes Works, Introduces Office 2010 Starter with Ads

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Oct 2009 22:04 UTC

Are you familiar with Microsoft Works? It's sort of a My First Office Suite kind of thing which includes support for Microsoft Word and Excel documents. It is usually not sold separately, but instead comes pre-installed on new OEM machines. Well, Microsoft has announced today that it will kill Microsoft Works, and replace it with Microsoft Office 2010 Starter - an ad-supported version of Office 2010.

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Office 2007 ribbon

by bolomkxxviii on Fri 9th Oct 2009 11:13 UTC

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2006-05-19

As far as I'm concerned, the ribbon can go the way of Clippy. Whenever MS thinks it knows what I want to do in a document, it is almost always wrong.

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RE: Office 2007 ribbon

by BluenoseJake on Fri 9th Oct 2009 16:44 in reply to "Office 2007 ribbon"

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2005-08-11

I'm not sure what you mean here, the ribbon is just a menu/toolbar replacement, it does not try to anticipate your actions. It's like a tabbed toolbar.

Obviously you haven't used Office 2007.

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