Philosophy
"Microsoft announces retail prices for Office 2010"
by
Jim Finkle and Derek Caney
January 5th, 2010
Reuters
Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday that it will charge between $99 and $499 for four retail versions of its Office 2010 software, due to be released later this year.
The pricing is generally in line with prices of its Office 2007 programs, one of the two most profitable product lines at the world's biggest software maker.
Microsoft will sell four retail boxed versions of the product, including a $99 academic version, a $149 basic version for consumers and a $499 full full-featured package for businesses.
Fine...if you like Microsoft Office features, then spend the $100 to $500 price. But if you want a simple word processing system without all the bells and whistles check Jarte ...it does a lot and it is free. I have used it for several years with no problems and it suits my needs.
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Philosophy
Microsoft Office and the free Jarte
"Microsoft announces retail prices for Office 2010"by
Jim Finkle and Derek Caney
January 5th, 2010
Reuters
Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday that it will charge between $99 and $499 for four retail versions of its Office 2010 software, due to be released later this year.
The pricing is generally in line with prices of its Office 2007 programs, one of the two most profitable product lines at the world's biggest software maker.
Microsoft will sell four retail boxed versions of the product, including a $99 academic version, a $149 basic version for consumers and a $499 full full-featured package for businesses.
Fine...if you like Microsoft Office features, then spend the $100 to $500 price. But if you want a simple word processing system without all the bells and whistles check Jarte ...it does a lot and it is free. I have used it for several years with no problems and it suits my needs.
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- False Needs, Technological Regress, And The Mechanical Pencil
As I wasted a perfectly good hour of vacation fixing the shorter of the short people's mechanical pencil -- a stocking stuffer he asked for and received -- Marx's notion of false needs came to mind, that is, the idea that in order to sell more...
- The Vodka Ad And The Ethics Of Endorsement
I was listening to Woody Allen's bit "The Vodka Ad" the other day and wondered about the veracity of the hook he uses in that bit. Is it immoral to endorse a product you do not use? Of course, there is the question of what constitutes endorsement....
- Deceased--henry Edward Roberts
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