UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 3, 2006 @05:03AM from the wal-mart-soon-to-challenge-ea-in-games-making dept.

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'."

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Their website is near-useless... by MMC+Monster · 2006-10-03 05:08 · Score: 1, Offtopic

As someone from the U.S., just navigating their website sucks. http://www.tesco.com/ doesn't even seem to have software, let alone a MS Office replacement.

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Re:old news... by VJ42 · 2006-10-03 05:16 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I submitted it this morning(11 hrs ago), with more info in my summary. Same thing happened:
UKs Biggest retailer starts own-brand software Tuesday October 03, @09:00AM Rejected

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