Microsoft Charges for Office 2007 Beta 2
Microsoft says that it will begin charging $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.
3 million people??? WOW!! I have a feeling that this release of Office will be a huge success. Personally, I think it’s a lot more intuitive than Office 2003 and I predict that openoffice.org will have a long hard road ahead. 
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