Re: [News] [Rival] Another Microsoft Product is Officially Dead: Equipt

[Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Microsoft kills Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription services
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> | Microsoft’s Equipt — which Microsoft launched in July of this year — is dead 
> | and Microsoft is having to go back and pull copies of Equipt from the channel 
> | (Circuit City in the U.S. and DSGI in the U.K.). Microsoft is offering 
> | customers a pro-rated refund for the service and allowing purchasers to keep 
> | Office Home & Student edition for free forever, Microsoft officials said.    
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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1729

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1469
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> July 2nd, 2008
> New Microsoft Office subscription bundle to hit in mid-July
> Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:04 am
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> Microsoft has given its new Office-based software-plus-service bundle a new name — “Equipt” — and a due date (mid-July), company officials said on July 2.
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> New Microsoft Office subscription bundle to hit in mid-JulyEquipt is the product/service that was formerly codenamed “Albany” (and inside Microsoft, known as “ValueBox”). Equipt, which Microsoft describes as its “essential set of software and services for consumers,” includes a version of Office Home and Student 2007; Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft’s PC management/security bundle; a few Windows Live communication/collaboration services; and Office Live Workspace, Microsoft’s online-collaboration add-on to Office.
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> Equipt will cost $69.99 annually (for a license that can be installed on three PCs in a user’s home). If and when Microsoft introduces any updates to any of the Equipt components during the year, subscribers will be entitled to receive them automatically for free as part of their paid subscription.
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