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Information Technology News Download Office 2007 for a fee says Microsoft
Information Technology News Download Office 2007 for a fee says Microsoft | Download Office 2007 for a fee says Microsoft |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 31 July 2006 | |
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According to Microsoft, the Beta 2 is so popular that the software giant has to charge to offset the cost of its servers - unless you live in Australia where you will no longer be able to download the beta anymore. With reportedly more than 3 million downloads already, the US$1.50 per download going forward could add up to a tidy sum but is just small change for a company which last year sold just under US$12 billion of Office products at a profit of over US$8 billion. Even though the downloads have many times more plentiful than Microsoft expected, it's hard to see why the company wants to charge for a beta release. However, the unexpected popularity of the download delivery model may have sparked some thoughts at Redmond about making Office 2007 available as a download. If so, Microsoft would probably want to do a dry run including payment systems over the net. Currently users can only order the software from Microsoft on a CD. {moscomment}
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