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UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes "The UK's equivalent of Walmart is taking on Microsoft in the software game. Tesco is famous for it's cheap 'value' food, but it's now offering 'value' alternatives to Microsoft's biggest products. From the article: 'Now, when you traverse the aisles in search of baked beans, sanitary towels and two-for-one packs of raw mince (hamburger), you can grab yourself a copy of Tesco Office (£20) — an alternative to the almost de-facto standard that is Microsoft Office — or Tesco Antivirus (£10), which is designed to keep your PC free of malware.' Tesco apparently 'takes one in every eight pounds spent in the UK'."
Now they can get to work on an antivirus for the food they sell!
Tesco here in Britain have Apple iBooks for an amazing £0.03 less than the Apple website price!
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Where do you think Zonk gets all of the "Anonymousy Submitted" stories that he puts up as editor?
From the anonymous coward who claims he submitted this story three days ago?
This guy's the limit!
What sort of person buys their software at a supermarket?
Yeah, I better grab some milk.. Brown eggs. Not white eggs.. A loaf of whole wheat.. Tampons.. Hey! An office suite!
Who are these people?
Have you seen that commercial, where the employees are sitting at a meeting and one says to use fedex shipping to save money? Everyone ignores him, the guy sitting at the head of the table says the same thing and everyone agrees. Because he made a hand motion. Next time, make a hand motion and maybe you'll get your story posted =D
I usually make a hand motion everytime my submissions get rejected. :)
Huh? Apache is a weberver. Windows Server is an OS. I could understand, "They run Windows Server. Why not use Linux?" Or, "Their website is on IIS. They don't use Apache."
But you're saying, they drive a Volvo. Why not wear blue jeans?
> Who are these people?
Mom, dad, meet BadAnalogyGuy. BadAnalogyGuy, this is Marty and Doris.
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
It's amazing how often stating the completely (and idiotically) obvious will get you modded up as 'funny' around here...
This guy's the limit!
Of course, the toilet paper here is labelled "facial" quality. I keep looking for the anal quality.
I wish Bank Street Writer would make a comeback.
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
In the UK he's called Henry Six-pints.
BTW it appears on just about everything: "Tesco: Every little helps". It's not always the most appropriate little motto. I once saw a poster in a store window. Large type:
THIS STORE WILL BE
CLOSED FOR 3 WEEKS
STARTING 10/10/1998
Tesco
every little helps
So how does that help exactly?
Indeed, wiki tells us it was first released in 1985 - it's nearly as old as Word itself.
So the big green area doesn't say download ?