Softwares

what is freeware

Freeware ( from “free” and “software” ) is a computer software which can be used by anyone for free of cost. A software classified as freeware works fully and it is available for unlimited time access with no cost. Freeware can be proprietary software available at zero price.

The software license may impose restrictions on the type of use including personal/individual use, commercial/non-commercial use, academic use, non-profit use or combination of all these. The license may be free for personal and non-commercial use.

Freeware may or may not be free and open source software. Free software foundation asks users to avoid calling “freeware” free software. Free software can be studied, used and modified without any restriction. Freeware is different from shareware.

Freeware provides users to access whole feature of the software without any limitation/cost, where shareware requests users to pay money after the trial period of the software or to provide full feature of the software.

Microsoft Office 2010 retail prices

Microsoft Office 2010 Logo

Microsoft Office 2010 is a Microsoft product and they already released Microsoft Office 2007 for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office 2008 for MAC OS X. It can be used in Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 and MAC OS X.
Microsoft Corporation announced that four retail versions of Office 2010 software will be charge between $99 and $499, which is to be released later this year. The pricing of Office 2010 is generally in line with prices of its Office 2007 software.
Microsoft is to be sell retail boxed versions of the Office 2010,
Academic version = $99
Basic version for consumers = $149
Full-featured package for businesses = $499