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Microsoft slip-up reveals planned Office 2010 upgrade promotion
A premature post on Microsoft's US Partner Community website today accidentally revealed, for a short time, the details of an upgrade promotion that the company plans to offer in advance of the upcoming Office 2010 release. Nice catch by Emil Protalinski of Ars Technica, who spotted the details in his RSS reader and, after seeing that the post had been taken down, found the remnants in Google's cache.
According to the post, customers who buy Office 2007 between March 5 and Sept. 30 will qualify for a free upgrade to Office 2010 after it's released in June 2010. They'll be able to upgrade via DVD or download, so long as they install and activate Office 2007 by Sept. 30 and request the Office 2010 upgrade by Oct. 31.
This chart, also via Ars Technica, shows which Office 2007 versions will be upgradable to which versions of Office 2010. Upgrade promotions are commonly used by Microsoft to keep sales of existing products going even when consumers and businesses know a new version is around the corner.
Microsoft last month announced the lineup and pricing for Office 2010, including a new $99 version that will be available to "qualifying" students and educators at campus stores and selected retailers. Office 2010 revamps Microsoft's venerable lineup of productivity software -- including the widely used Word, Excel and PowerPoint -- and adds new social-networking features to the Outlook email program.
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