Microsoft to Charge for Office 2007 Beta 2
Microsoft Friday said that this week it will begin charging US$1.50 for users to download a copy of the Office 2007 beta 2.
"In just the past two months since its launch, more than 3 million people have downloaded the 2007 Microsoft Office system beta 2," the company said in a statement sent via e-mail. "Given how dramatically the beta 2 downloads have exceeded our goals, we have made the business decision to implement a cost-recovery measure for downloading the beta."
Microsoft will begin charging users starting Wednesday, it said. The company released beta 2 of Office 2007 in May.
Though users will be charged for downloads of the actual Office 2007 beta 2 software, Microsoft will continue to offer an online test drive of Office 2007 it launched in late June that users can access through a Web browser.
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Microsoft plans to release Office 2007 to business customers before the end of the year, and to consumers in early 2007. Both of those releases have been delayed from their originally scheduled ship dates.
I got Open Office in the front, and teh BETA in the back on AFS if they need it, LoL..
M$ to start charging for Office BETA
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