ZDNet

Office Starter 2010 drops the crapware, adds ads

You've already seen most of Office 2010. It was released to manufacturing two months ago and has been widely available to Microsoft partners and anyone with an MSDN or TechNet subscription. (Check out ...
ZDNet

Office Starter 2010 private beta, with 'Office to GO,' goes to testers

Microsoft released a bunch of public betas of various Office 2010 products this week. But it also released another one under non-disclosure to a select group of testers: Office Starter 2010. Microsoft ...
Reuters

Microsoft to put free Office Starter 2010 on new PCs

Microsoft announced today that it will abandon its decades-old Works entry-level suite, and will instead offer a stripped-down, advertising-supported version of Office 2010 on new PCs next year.