T-Mobile Austria offers Office 2010 as contract benefit

In Austria and Germany, independant retailers have long bundled all kinds of crap to (overpriced) phone contracts.

My special friends at T-Mobile Austria have now taken this one step further. They teamed up with Microsoft and offer a free license of Office 2010 with a mobile internet contract.

The contract in question will run for 24 months, gives you 15GB of traffic and an USB modem for 15 Euros a month. The Home and Student license remains your property afterwards.

IMHO, Microsoft does this mainly to fight piracy – as almost all Austrian carriers charge an Euro for the GB, the margin for Redmond cant be too large…

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