Its feature set will also be limited compared to the regular versions of the product line. It is a true Office product – so not a rebranded Works suite – but is cheap and ad-supported. Microsoft Office 2010 Starter is supposed to remedy all of this. As an experiment, Works is currently also available as an ad-supported version, but only in some countries and it’s limited to OEMs. Version 9.0 offered Windows Vista compatibility, but it for instance still sports Windows 95-esque icon design. Microsoft Works, at version 9.0, is quite outdated. In a table (made in Excel 2007, darn it!), it looks something like this: The situation when it comes to file format compatibility between Works and Office is complicated and annoying. I recall several occasions on which I had to help people out because they received documents in a weird format that they could not open – even though the people sending it to them claimed they had used “Microsoft Word” to create the document. While it is compatible with ordinary Word and Excel documents, it also has its own built-in file format that can’t really be read or edited by anything. Microsoft Works is something I personally despise with all my heart. 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.
It is usually not sold separately, but instead comes pre-installed on new OEM machines.
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.
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