{"id":316,"date":"2006-07-31T18:39:28","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/31\/microsoft-invents-paying-beta-test\/"},"modified":"2006-07-31T18:39:28","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T17:39:28","slug":"microsoft-invents-paying-beta-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/31\/microsoft-invents-paying-beta-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft invents paying beta test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You thought that they wouldn&#8217;t dare: From the 2nd of August, Microsoft is going to charge 1.50$ per download of the beta version of Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n<p>Yes! Now, there are so many crzay people willing to test a bug-ridden version of Microsoft Office that the firm from Redmond can make them pay for this privilege.<\/p>\n<p>I had given the advice of not installing this beta, with good reasons. But here is one more that I did not see coming: You may have to pay for the official right to crash your PC. It&#8217;s up to you to see if it&#8217;s worth the effort. I still think it&#8217;s not and I keep going and downloading free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubic.com\/actualite-37003-beta-office-2007-payante.html\">ClubIC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You thought that they wouldn&#8217;t dare: From the 2nd of August, Microsoft is going to charge 1.50$ per download of the beta version of Microsoft Office. Yes! Now, there are so many crzay people willing to test a bug-ridden version of Microsoft Office that the firm from Redmond can make them pay for this privilege. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,16,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spreadsheet","category-vista","category-word-processor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}