Currently Microsoft Office Starter 2010 is in private, invite-only Beta stage. From the looks of it there will be advertisements in the program. Yes, advertisements and not only that its not a full office suite. Only Word and Excel are included. But, Microsoft Office Starter 2010 will come with 'Microsoft Office To-Go Device Manager 2010' which will copy the installation of Office to a USB stick, making the bare bones office suite portable. According to ZDNet, The Starter Edition will only be available to OEMs for preloading on new computers, replacing Microsoft Works.
In all fairness, 'Microsoft Office Starter 2010 Starter' is useless when a user can install a open source full office suite with no ads like Openoffice, which is also portable. Or freeware like IBMs Lotus Symphony which has less modules then OpenOffice but more then Office Starter 2010.
