Word and Excel files in the Office Starter 2010 product will be capable of working with Microsoft's cloud-based cousins, namely Word and Excel Office Web Apps, according to the Microsoft spokesperson.

Microsoft announced today that it will abandon its decades-old Works entry-level suite, and will instead offer a stripped-down, advertising-supported version of Office 2010 on new PCs next year.

Microsoft notified its OEM PC partners this week that it is starting to phase out Office Starter 2010, a stripped-down bundle of Word and Excel that it provided to PC makers to preload on new ...

Office Starter 2010 is the Microsoft-designated replacement for its Microsoft Works product. Starter will be a low-end, free (but ad-supported) bundle of Word and Excel.

Office Starter 2010 Microsoft Office Starter 2010 will be not available for purchase; it will only come pre-loaded on new PCs.

Office 2010 Starter Edition, a free, ad-supported version of Microsoft's upcoming Office suite, will ship with new PCs.