Microsoft Works To Be Ad Funded

By Barry Schwartz

Published: July 31, 2007 at 8:43 am

Microsoft Works to become a free, ad-funded product from ZDNet reports that the next version of the Microsoft Works office suite is to be ad funded.

Microsoft Works 9.0 isn’t yet available, and it’s not clear whether in addition to ads, a web-hosted version would also be offered. If a web hosted version was provided, then it would compete directly with Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Microsoft And Google Moving More Deeply Into Each Others’ Businesses from Greg Sterling this past Friday details Microsoft’s strategy to develop web-enabled applications and more ad-based products.

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

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