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June fifteen marks the date that Workplace 2010 goes on sale through retail. Although a great number of enterprise watchers and potential customers are extra centered on the Webified version of Microsoft;s Workplace suite (Workplace Internet Apps), Microsoft and its partners are paying out equally shut, if not nearer,Windows 7 Product Key, attention to Workplace Starter 2010.Office Starter 2010 — in spite of its name — is primarily meant to be a distribution tool, rather than a low-end, free edition of Office. Yes, Office Starter 2010 is the replacement for Microsoft Works. It will be free and ad-supported and bundled on a large number of new PCs sold at retail. But Starter includes stripped-down versions of Word and Excel only and allows only basic document viewing and editing.Some have described Office Starter 2010 as trialware (or crapware, depending on your preference of terms). That;s not far off the mark. Workplace Starter is the new vehicle via which Microsoft is preloading an entry-level version of its latest Workplace suite on new PCs,Office Pro 2007 Key, with the hopes that customers will be interested enough to pay to upgrade to a full-fledged edition.Microsoft officials are not entirely convinced their Workplace Starter 2010 plan is going to work. I had a chance to see a note Microsoft sent to some of its OEM partners, outlining Office 2010 marketing restrictions and suggested best practices.Some interesting excerpts from that note:“Most customers who purchase a PC install a full Workplace suite on it within two weeks. Focusing on the full Workplace suites also helps avoid dissatisfaction from customers expecting a full Workplace suite or from business enterprise end users who miss the functionality of the full Office suites.“Incorrect messaging of Office Starter 2010 may discourage your customers from purchasing a full Workplace suite and could also lead to customer dissatisfaction and confusion. Market research shows that countless people confused Office Starter 2010 with a full Office suite, and were then dissatisfied because they believed they had received a full Workplace suite.”Microsoft is advising its PC and retail partners not to focus end-user advertising on Workplace Starter 2010. Why? From the aforementioned note: “(R)esearch shows that advertising or promoting Workplace Starter 2010 will distract your customers and deter them from purchasing a full Workplace suite.”Instead,Office Enterprise 2007, Microsoft is advising its retail partners to focus on the idea that new PCs preloaded with Workplace 2010 are “ready for activation” with the purchase of a product key card or disc.As I blogged previously, Microsoft also is using Office Starter 2010 to get far more of its own software and services preloaded on new PCs. Microsoft is planning to charge PC makers $2 per copy for Office Starter 2010 if they also agree to preload the Bing Bar and Windows Live Essentials. If a PC maker wants Workplace Starter 2010 only,Cheap Office 2010, Microsoft plans on charging $5 per copy.Here;s a screen shot below that reinforces this planned pricing, and notes that Microsoft is selling these bundles in packs of 10 to its OEM/system builder partners.
(click about the image above to enlarge)June fifteen also is the date when Microsoft has said it plans to begin rolling out to customers the new Windows Live Wave 4 Hotmail. It is the Wave 4 edition of Hotmail that will enable users to share Office Internet Apps documents from inside their -mail. Microsoft “turned on” Workplace Web Apps last week, enabling people to access the Webified versions of Word, Excel,Office 2010, PowerPoint and OneNote through their Windows Live Skydrive storage service.