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RTFM - 2009-08-09 8:35 PM
You shouldn't 'have' to buy software for a netbook that should've had some sort of office built in by default. Isn't that part of being a 'netbook'?
I know this is a month old, but still... I don't see any Windows netbook come with MS Office; you always have to pay extra for it. As a matter of fact I don't think they even come with MS Works
(which is a popular OEM-included office app suite for most other Windows PCs
).
True most of the Linux netbooks come with all software built-in. But the emphasis is always on the browser; the office apps are secondary at best.
So to answer the question: no, having office apps built in is not part of being a netbook.
CE "netbook"
(or smartbook
) have built-in IE 6.0, which is their qualifier
(altho it's far from a full-featured browser
). Most have WordPad, and Office Viewers
(Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF
). Altho again these aren't terribly powerful or useful, but they are there.
If you like freeware there are a few you can find for CE. It is true that for a featured word processor on CE you would need to purchase TextMaker, but as pointed out that is similar to buying software for a netbook running PC Windows.