Microsoft comes with free office software
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Microsoft will experiment with a free version of its office parcel Works. Users must take, however, pleasure with advertisements on their baffle. That has confirmed Microsoft Thursday. Microsoft Works 9 SE is as a test provided during a year in a number of countries voorgeïnstalleerd on computers.
The parcel Works is a lighter version of Microsoft Office. It has among others equipped with a text processing programme and a function for treating spreadsheets, and can also files open which are created with Office. In contrast to its large brother Works contained on the other hand for example no presentation software.
The software company intends is of Works also whole for free put a version available. Which that uses, gets on its baffle small advertisements to see.
Microsoft says want anticipate productivity software, and the question of computer traders with experimenting on the need of customers for voorgeïnstalleerde such software against low costs with their pc. is possible meeleveren
Possibly hopes Microsoft with the free version also improve the competition manage go with alternatives such as Googles online office parcel Google Docs & Spreadsheets or the free OpenOffice.
patent application
Recently it was confessed that Microsoft a patent application for a system has done to advertisements within control system Windows and other show software. The described system shows very specific advertisements on the basis of information on the computer of the user, such as the contents of documents or the state of the hardware.
The advertisements in Works 9 would be selected however ordinary on the basis of market research. The programme would collect no information on the user.
According to Microsoft the Netherlands the advertisement version of Works is provisionally only available in Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. Experimenting is evaluated after a year. If and when software will be also provided in the Netherlands, a spokesman did not can say.
Source: nu.nl
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