Is with Microsoft Works was the world's largest software vendors already an Office-variant with only basic functions in the program. "Starter Office 2010," the small, designed for home users to replace office suite.

You can receive the free Office 2010 Starter future by buying a new OEM PC or via download, are packing boxes with media for the trade is not planned. The software package includes the cropped versions of Word 2010 and Excel 2010, Powerpoint for example, is not included. Microsoft wants to deliver according to its own data with starters' basic functions for creating, viewing and editing documents. "

Office is funded through banner ads starting to get present the user in a window - the first Microsoft application that relies on advertising. Microsoft's calculus: Users come to terms with the starter version, perhaps to get them to an office full version. To this end, Microsoft introduces a Product Key-a card: You will be supplied with new PCs - but will later also be available on the market - and include serial numbers to unlock one of three full versions Office Home & Student 2010, Home & Business 2010 or Professional 2010th Also Microsoft introduces with "click-to-Run," a new feature that handles the download and install the software automatically, and several different versions of Office can be installed in parallel in order to test on a computer without one may have already installed Office to be removed.