My Vista Office
As I’ve been testing all of Microsoft’s latest software (Vista, IE7, WMP11), I figured I’d go see how Microsoft Office 2007 Beta works on Vista.I had heard from TWiT that the Beta had cost some small portion of money. I, unintelligently, figured this would have changed. However, when I found the Office beta site, I read this:We are thrilled with the incredible excitement around the upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system as evident by nearly 3 million people using the Beta 2 since its release two months ago. Having exceeded our Beta 2 technical participation goals we are now offering this on a cost recovery basis for future downloads of Beta 2.Again, I thought to myself, this “cost recovery” cannot possibly effect me! So, I went through the entire sign-up process, just to run into the final page, which asked for $1.50. I decided it wasn’t worth it. However, I would love to know how much money Microsoft lost by allowing 3 million copies of their product to be downloaded (ranging from 75MB