Good news for lovers of office suites: Microsoft Works is dead (finally) and Microsoft Office 2010, its Starter Edition, will be good enough for a good portion of users. Indeed, Microsoft has shown the limitations of this version at very low prices for OEMs (and thus the direct integration) and is somewhat problematic for mainstream users.

No databases, no macros

To recall, the Starter version of Office 2010 will be delivered with the major PC manufacturers and does not include Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. The first limitation is the lack of file management related databases (. DSN. MDE,. ACCDB and. UDL). The second is the lack of support for macros (Windows users join the users of the 2008 version is for Mac OS X) and therefore also the files. And XLA. Xlam (dedicated to Excel macros). Finally, management diagrams are absent. In practice, the functions are rarely used in everyday use at home and the Starter version should not pose problems for users.

This was to eventually do harm to OpenOffice.org and, and it's more fun to Microsoft: most users have only to macros and databases. There remains the problem of lack of PowerPoint, the software preferred by officials who read their emails, but the vision proposed by Microsoft should be ample to watch the magnificent images of planes passing over the beaches...