No upgrade editions for MS Office 2010

[pokerfan]

Microsoft today disclosed retail prices for Office 2010, and said it has no plans to offer "upgrade" editions -- the discounted versions for users who already have an earlier edition on their PCs. The move will effectively raise the price for many users who want to migrate from older editions of the popular suite.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-dumps-upgrade-pricing-office-2010-261

Microsoft also spelled out prices for its new "key cards," single-license codes that will be sold at up to 30 percent off boxed copy prices, for upgrading the Office Starter 2010 mini-suite that many computer makers are expected to preinstall on new PCs.

Microsoft's trimmed the number of retail editions of Office 2010 for the general public to three, down from Office 2007's five.

The boxed version of Office 2010 Home and Student, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, comes with a price tag of $149, and lets a family install the suite on as many of three household PCs. A single-license key card will cost $119, 20 percent less than the boxed copy.

Office 2010 Home and Business, which adds the Outlook e-mail client to the four applications available in Home and Student, runs $249 and can be installed on up to two of the buyer's PCs. A one-license key card will be priced at $199, a 20 percent savings.

[hobbit709]

1. All the more reason not to buy that crap.

[MyNameGoesHere]

2. Yes if you want to save money

do not buy it. But calling it crap is just being ignorant. It is and probably will be heads above any alternative for some time. Using 2010 for a little while now and so far it is the best suite ever released by MS.

[hobbit709]

3. WordPerfect since my DOS days.

[pokerfan]

4. Wordstar was my first word processor, Lotus my first spreadsheet