The next version of Microsoft’s productivity suite, Works 9.0, will be available free and ad-supported, according to Bink.nu
For the time being, however, the new version of Works will be ad-funded, according to Satya Nadella, the newly minted Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Search & Advertising Platform Group. Nadella told me during an interview on July 27 that Microsoft recently released the new ad-funded version of Microsoft Works.
No official news on this yet, neither anything on a hosted version of the software.
Microsoft Works to become a free, ad-funded product – [Bink.nu]
Will is suck as bad as all the previous versions and then lock you into its file format so you can’t even open your documents with a paid version of MSOffice?
I suppose ad supported is their attempt to compete with OpenOffice.
Just download OpenOffice, it actually does work unlike this falsely named crap of MS’s
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Ditto to OpenOffice, don’t bother with a free ad-supported version of something that already exists which is truly free and far more better.