Microsoft boosts Office upgrade
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft revealed a "step up" promotion Monday for its new Office software, offering advanced versions of Office applications for business customers enrolled in a controversial new licensing plan.
The promotion applies to business customers who have signed up for one of several licensing plans imposed two years ago that lock customers into periodic upgrades and who are set to receive the standard version of Office 2003 when the software is released in a few months.
Office Standard Edition 2003--one of the six main packages of the revamped suite--consists of the Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Under the step-up promotion, customers will be entitled to use the versions of those applications included in Office Professional Edition 2003.