{"id":1028,"date":"2010-04-01T19:25:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2010-04-01T19:25:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T18:25:30","slug":"microsofts-big-gamble-with-free-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s big gamble with free Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-Microsoft has a new plan to make more money from Office: give it away. <\/p>\n<p>With Office 2010, one of the biggest changes is how many ways there are to get Microsoft&#8217;s most profitable software program for free. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the free, browser-based Office Web Apps, Microsoft is also offering PC makers the ability to install a basic version of Office on new computers. The new program, Office Starter, includes a stripped-down version of Word and Excel. PC makers, retailers and Microsoft can all make money if the PC buyer later upgrades to a paid version of Office. <\/p>\n<p>Link &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-20001553-56.html\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-20001553-56.html\">http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-20001553-56.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-Microsoft has a new plan to make more money from Office: give it away. With Office 2010, one of the biggest changes is how many ways there are to get Microsoft&#8217;s most profitable software program for free. In addition to the free, browser-based Office Web Apps, Microsoft is also offering PC makers the ability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,9],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-microsoft","tag-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}