Office 2010 Professional will cost even more than the corresponding Office 2007 edition with the elimination of upgrade pricing. The key card price of $199 for Office 2010 Home and Business is $40 less than the upgrade price of Office 2007 Standard, but it's a one-license deal the boxed copy lets customers install the suite on two PCs. Office 2010 Home and Business, meanwhile, will cost $249 in the boxed version, effectively raising the price of the suite by $10 for people wanting to upgrade. In the Office 2007 line, the Standard edition - which contains the same applications as Office 2010 Home and Business - costs $399.95 for the full version but only $239.95 for the upgrade, a savings of 40%. That's a major departure from the past Microsoft has traditionally sold upgrades at prices significantly less than the so-called 'full' editions, which are designed for installing the suite on a PC sans Office. A company spokeswoman confirmed today that Microsoft does not plan to offer separate upgrade editions for Office 2010. Microsoft is making changes to more than the suite's editions, however. No key card option will be available for the academic edition. The edition contains the same application mix as Office 2010 Professional, can be installed on up to two PCs and will cost $99. The SKU Microsoft added to the retail line today is Professional Academic, an edition available to K-12 and college students, staff and faculty.

The single-license key card, however, will run $349, a discount of 30%. A one-license key card will be priced at $199, a 20% savings.Īdding Publisher and Access, the latter Microsoft's desktop database software, Office 2010 Professional will be priced at $499 and can be installed on a pair of PCs. Office 2010 Home and Business, which adds the Outlook e-mail client to the four applications available in Home and Student, runs $249 and can be installed on up to two of the buyer's PCs. A single-license key card will cost $119, 20% less than the boxed copy. The boxed version of Office 2010 Home and Student, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, comes with a price tag of $149, and lets a family install the suite on as many of three household PCs.

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