Jimmy Daniels of RealTechNews writes:

As Michael noted in an earlier article, Microsoft is looking at free, ad-supported versions of many of its titles, although, you can bet Office won’t be one of them, and it appears that competing with Google isn’t the only reason for them to consider it.

Many of its software titles, such as Microsoft Works or Microsoft Money, do not bring in any revenues at all, and Money isn’t even at a break even level. Microsoft has to heavily discount OneNote to even get it included on computers, and it only recieves $2 a copy from computer manufacturers for Microsoft Works.

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