Microsoft to charge users to download beta Office 2007 Posted by Amber Maitland
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=4134 31 July 2006 - Microsoft has come up with a plan to generate revenue from its Office 2007 beta software. The company plans to start charging US$1.50 for users to download the beta version of the popular software in a move, it says, to offset bandwidth costs for the downloads. "Having exceeded our beta 2 participation goals by 500 per cent, we have had to make the business decision to implement a cost recovery measure for future downloads of beta 2 beginning August 2, 2006", a company spokesperson said to vnunet.com The fee won't apply to beta testers who have already downloaded the previous version; nor will it apply to users trying out the hosted version online. It's mainly aimed at enterprise users trying it out for compatibility for their systems. Via http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2161272/microsoft-charge-office-beta Gregory S. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _____________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
