Microsoft Office 2010 will be 'free' with 2007

Microsoft has pulled down a blog post that detailed a promotional offer for a free upgrade to Office 2010 if punters buy Office 2007 in a limited time frame . According to Arstechnica, the post was by Charles Van Heusen on his 'In the Know' blog at Microsoft's US Partner Community website.

The offer is to run for customers who buy Office 2007 from an authorised vendor between March 5 and September 30, 2010.

Users must have activated their copy of Office 2007 by September 30 and can request the free upgrade to Office 2010 by October 31 at the latest, if they send Microsoft the Office 2007 activation key and purchase receipt. Once Microsoft has that information, it will offer punters a free download or send the DVD's out in the post for a minimal shipping fee.

Arstechnica caught the information on its RSS feed and while the original link is now down, the information was cached in Google so it has some screenshots of the offer.

reference: theinquirer.