Office 2010 Prices

Microsoft today has released pricing for future versions of Office software suite Office 2010. According to data provided by Microsoft, the price of the software will range from $99 to $499.
The cheapest version of Office 2010 Professional Academic will be sold just for $99, but it will only be bought by educational institutions.
Business version of Microsoft Office 2010 will range in price from $349 to $499.

According to analysts, selling 99-dollar version of MS Office 2010 will not be very profitable for the company and in other contexts Microsoft, most likely, would refuse it, but today's online market conditions,  stiff competition from Google, has forced the software giant to do so. Otherwise, many individual users, perhaps, small businesses will transfer their work force to competing products, such as Google Docs.

If we see the previous Microsoft Office Suite's Pricing Strategy we shall find that the cheapest version of Microsoft office suite cost $149, except that the corporation offered some new computers fully functional version of the package for free.

Read the review of the current 'Microsoft Office 2010 Suite'.
Versions of Office 2010 Home Edition and Student Edition would cost to customers in 119 and 149 dollars. Exactly the same version, but Outlook will cost is 179 and 199 dollars.

Note that similar versions of Office 2007 series of products worth almost 40% more expensive. According to recent statistics, approximately 60% of users of Microsoft Office - this is commercial users of the business sector.

Now Microsoft is busy testing of preliminary versions of Office 2010, in Redmond it has been reported that the number of downloads of beta versions of Office 2010 exceeded 2 million is expected that the finished version of the package will be the summer of 2010.