Microsoft announces fees for Office betas.
Economic Times (New Delhi, India), August, 2006
Aug. 2--NEW DELHI -- Want a beta version of Office 2007? Just pay for it, for Microsoft has announced its intention to charge people US $ 1.50 to download its Office 2007 beta 2.
"We are thrilled with the incredible excitement around the upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system as evident by more than 3m people using the beta 2 since its release two months ago. Having exceeded our beta 2 participation goals by 500 percent, we have had to make the business decision to implement a cost recovery measure for future downloads of beta 2 beginning 2 August, 2006," said the company in a statement.
Users who have already downloaded the software in the past will be able to obtain updates free of charge. The company has clarified that this is the first time...
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