


That said, you can’t close the advertising pane or its parent column, so a fair percentage of screen real estate is committed to ad-related content in Office Starter 2010. Moreover, the ads are not based on the content of the user’s documents no indexing takes place and no user data is shared with the advertising system. It should come as no surprise that many of the advertisements are upsells to paid versions of Microsoft Office, and that as of yet Microsoft has not scheduled any third-party ads for these units. In the bottom right corner of the application window, an ad unit rotates through paid advertisements every 45 seconds. The trade-offs for this price point are manifold.įirst, Microsoft Office 2010 Starter Edition is ad-supported. Office 2010 Starter isn’t available at retail, but its retail price is zero. If you opt to have Office 2010 Starter Edition preinstalled on your PC – or if the manufacturer makes that decision for you – it will cost you nothing.
