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by Mike Zazaian September 22, 2006 - 3:51pm, 2 Comments

Citing the success of Google’s free Writerly online office suite, Microsoft seeks to bring it’s own Works to the online scene.

The move would bring Microsoft Works, the stripped-down versions of word-processing and spreadsheet software from its Office juggernaut, to a free, online environment. Works would be supported by revenue made from advertising, just like a Writerly and a number of other online word processing suites that are already on the market.

Microsoft’s main reservation about bring Works online is that it may conflict with sales of the full-featured Microsoft Office line of software. Office brought in $44 billion in sales last year, and the newest version, Office 2007, is due out next January alongside the release of Windows Vista.

[via Reuters]