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Office 2010 Went On Sale to Consumers and Small Businesses Tuesday

Office 2010 went on sale to consumers and small businesses Tuesday and Microsoft’s free lightweight Office Web Apps version of Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint, its answer to the three-year-old Google Apps, was made generally available. The webby stuff is good on Macs and phones as well as PCs and users with a Hotmail account can make use of SkyDrive, the 25GB of free storage Microsoft offers. To recap, the Home and Student version cost $150 ($120 downloaded); the Home and Business edition, which adds Outlook, is $280 ($200 downloaded); Office Professional, which includes Publisher and Access, lists for $500 ($350 downloaded). Office has traditional accounted for half of Microsoft’s earnings and a third of its revenue, which may explain why it’s spending a reported $80 million to advertise the new stuff.

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