Supermarket Giant Now A Microsoft Competitor
from the add-'em-to-the-list dept
There's no doubt that Microsoft is under assault from a variety of attackers including Google, web-based software, and open source. As if it needed any more competition, it now has to do battle against a supermarket chain. Tesco, the UK's largest grocer, is planning on selling its own, private-label software for cheap. The store will offer a range of products including an office suite, an anti-virus tool, personal finance software, a CD/DVD burner, and a photo editing product. The company has also launched a site to sell and support the offering. Of course, Tesco isn't likely to carve a huge stake of the software industry, but the move is indicative of the fact that many of the basic consumer applications are rapidly commoditizing. Microsoft is obviously well aware of the changes going on, and is looking for new ways of distributing its consumer software, but it's hard to see the company coming upon anything that will adequately replace some of its most lucrative cash cows.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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I'm not even going to bother doing it myself.
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This is what needs to happen
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Quarter Pounder
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"Oh I can't bring your doc in because your using this or that". ENOUGH, thank goodness this country is primairly using one damn product to communicate with.
The Military not to long ago had over 300,000 DIFFERENT applications on 300,000 desktops, now we're down to maybe 1500 apps. Life is a bit easier with Bill I'd have to admit. (Although I don't want to, I must conceed)
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Open Office
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Open Office
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c'mon
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OpenOffice -- StarOffice
Surely you are kidding when you say that by accounting for the extra time it has taken you to get around in OpenOffice and StarOffice makes them more expensive than MS Office.
To anyone else reading this download OpenOffice 2.0.3 or StarOffice 8 to compare with MS Office.
I am sure you will find OpenOffice and StarOffice much more reasonable in StarOffice and far more reasonable in OpenOffice than the expensive MS Office.
The use of OpenOffice and StarOffice saves good dollars and makes sense.
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Open Source = Money Saved = Confused Users = Time
Switching to open source usually means lots of users trying to make "sense" of why they can't do the same things the same way that they could with MS Office. The saved "good dollars" will be sucked up in the hour or two that the average office worker will need, to figure out how to convert those Office docs that everyone else outside of the company, that they do business with, keeps wanting to send them.
Nice try though, at a proven ineffective argument.
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Re: Open Source = Money Saved = Confused Users = T
office is unit cost*∞ number of upgrades
open office n hours*cost per hour.
Nice try though, at a proven ineffective argument ;P
And remember to send in openDocument all the reply that you can get out with.
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