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Story: Tesco takes on software giants

Posted by: AndyC (Tuesday 3 October 2006, 11:26 AM)

What you lot don't seem to be thinking of is the effect this will have on the marketplace. Joe public will (or should) start to think, "why do I HAVE to get MS Office, when I can get it from Tesco? And it's cheaper too!"

Yes, it won't be as fully functional as MS Office, but 90% of users don't use the "advanced" functionality offered by Office anyway (hands up all those who are still using Office97). I use OpenOffice by choice, not because it is Free and Open Source (although that is definately a BIG plus point), but because I have got just the functionality I need and I haven't got to pay hundreds of pounds to Microsoft for something I'm only going to use 10% of.

I'm all for Tesco raising the awareness of viable alternatives to the Microsoft dominance of the software market. I'm just waiting for them to start to offer an Operating system to run these products on as well (GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris anyone?)

Andy