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Microsoft plans downloadable versions of Windows Vista, Office
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| _Griphin_ User Info... | http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901658 Microsoft said Wednesday it plans for the first time to make its new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite available for downloading by PC users over the Internet on Jan. 30, the day it releases those products to the retail market and computer manufacturers. Microsoft and Circuit City Stores plan to sell what the software company expects to be the most popular versions of Windows and Office for consumers and small business customers on Microsoft's Windows Marketplace site. A Microsoft executive says that while downloading Windows from the Web won't appeal to the majority of PC users, it lets the world's largest software company establish an online beachhead for future sales. - Thu, 18 Jan 2007 3:24pm Edited: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 3:24pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | For a software developer or corporate client willing to pay a few grand a year, one can download everything Microsoft sells. For developers MS gives 10 licenses of each product for testing and development. This is probably a good thing for them to let normal joes download it and make it easy for people to purchase. We all know that people have been downloading Microsoft products from the sharing networks for YEARS!!!! Hehehe, they know obviously, but I think its funny that illegitimate distribution is always FAR ahead of the legit... . - Thu, 18 Jan 2007 9:20pm Edited: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 9:22pm | ||
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