Microsoft has a competition!!!

[Julia Roberts]

It looks like Microsoft's dominance in Office products is likely to be
under attack in the UK when Tesco starts its software market.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5396488.stm

Tesco's software will come preloaded with all new PCs and laptops from
end October 2006.

 

[Alias~-]

It looks like Microsoft's dominance in Office products is likely to be
under attack in the UK when Tesco starts its software market.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5396488.stm

Tesco's software will come preloaded with all new PCs and laptops from
end October 2006.

This is encouraging when you consider the price of MS Office. I hope
it's better than Open Office.

Alias

 

[Robert Moir]

This is encouraging when you consider the price of MS Office. I hope
it's better than Open Office.

It'll probably be Open Office or worse, some low rent package that was on
the way to a natural extinction.

Tesco are not what you'd call a high quality operation.

 

[Gordon]

This is encouraging when you consider the price of MS Office. I hope it's
better than Open Office.

Alias

The latest edition of Open Office is certainly as "good" as Office
2002............

 

[Bob]

I'll take a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs, and a word processor please.

 

[antioch]

It'll probably be Open Office or worse, some low rent package that was on
the way to a natural extinction.

Tesco are not what you'd call a high quality operation.

A high quality operation in respect of selling computers or food etc??

Antioch

 

[George Clooney]

It looks like Microsoft's dominance in Office products is likely to be
under attack in the UK when Tesco starts its software market.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5396488.stm

Tesco's software will come preloaded with all new PCs and laptops from
end October 2006.

strange that there's no cashncarrion story here yet:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Tesco+software+theregister+2006

http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=tesco
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/05/30/tesco_pc_expansion/

 

[Robert Moir]

strange that there's no cashncarrion story here yet:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Tesco+software+theregister+2006

http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=tesco
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/05/30/tesco_pc_expansion/

Not that strange, El Reg is relatively quiet over the weekend, and they're
probably still thinking of an appropriately spicy headline too.

 

[Robert Moir]

A high quality operation in respect of selling computers or food
etc??

Oh they're very good at what they do. But what they do is more in delivery
of short term 'value' goods, not long term quality and after sales support,
both of which you'd need to go after MS Office. Especially if you're going
to be charging for the product AND competing with Open Office too.

 

[Baloo]

It looks like Microsoft's dominance in Office products is likely to be
under attack in the UK when Tesco starts its software market.

I think OpenOffice.org beat 'em to the punch, though, no?

 

[Keith Manning]

It looks like Microsoft's dominance in Office products is likely to be
under attack in the UK when Tesco starts its software market.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5396488.stm

Tesco's software will come preloaded with all new PCs and laptops from
end October 2006.

Web based office programs are about to be the next big ticket. Office
software packages are headed for the grave.

Take a look at the future!
http://www.writely.com
http://spreadsheet.google.com/


Keith Manning

 

[Og]

Web based office programs are about to be the next big ticket. Office
software packages are headed for the grave.

Take a look at the future!
http://www.writely.com
http://spreadsheet.google.com/

Keith Manning

Microsoft had that same vision seven or eight years ago.
Business owners asked: "If all of my applications reside on the server, how
can I do business if I can't connect to the server?"
If a car hits the telephone pole next to your office building, no employee
who relies on software can conduct their business until the telephone
company has effected a repair to the telephone line attached to the pole.
Whether you have five employees or five-thousand employees, you can not
afford the risk associated with having all of your applications stored on a
remote server.
Steve

 

[Jon]

Yep, and Big Brother will be reading all your documents with great pleasure.

--
Jon

And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
--Matthew Arnold

You may well be aware that "Keith Manning" <[email protected]> had
previously written in

 

[Keith Manning]

"Og" wrote

Microsoft had that same vision seven or eight years ago.
Business owners asked: "If all of my applications reside on the server,
how can I do business if I can't connect to the server?"
If a car hits the telephone pole next to your office building, no employee
who relies on software can conduct their business until the telephone
company has effected a repair to the telephone line attached to the pole.
Whether you have five employees or five-thousand employees, you can not
afford the risk associated with having all of your applications stored on
a remote server.
Steve

Business also said that when they bought in the electronic credit card
approvals, and electronic cash registers. What will we do if the telephone
system goes down or the power goes off. Cool out and take a coffee break.

Office workers may not have their applications stored on a remote server but
their databases are. Without access to the company database their
applications are generally useless.

 

[Keith Manning]

Yep, and Big Brother will be reading all your documents with great
pleasure.

If you've got something you really need to hide from the IRS or someone like
that, I suggest you don't let it get anywhere near a computer.

But like 99% of people out there, they've got nothing to hide and will
accept the idea of storing their documents, spreadsheets, images and
databases in data centers.

Welcome to the new world.

 

[Alias~-]

in message

If you've got something you really need to hide from the IRS or someone like
that, I suggest you don't let it get anywhere near a computer.

But like 99% of people out there, they've got nothing to hide and will
accept the idea of storing their documents, spreadsheets, images and
databases in data centers.

Welcome to the new world.

Yeah, and throw away all those large hard drives. Sure. I wouldn't trust
someone else's hard drive to store my data. I don't even trust my own
which is why I religiously back up my data to two different media, an
external hard drive and a back up computer all set to go.

Someone said that PCs are finished too but then Intel and AMD come up
with four quads and, all of a sudden, PCs are cool again. On line
storage is just a gimmick that will go the way of the hula hoop.

Welcome to the real world.

Alias

 

[Jon]

The previous comment in this thread was actually made by "Keith Manning"

in message

If you've got something you really need to hide from the IRS or someone
like that, I suggest you don't let it get anywhere near a computer.

But like 99% of people out there, they've got nothing to hide and will
accept the idea of storing their documents, spreadsheets, images and
databases in data centers.

Welcome to the new world.

I prefer this vision of the future. A minicomputer this powerful in every
home

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene

 

[NoStop]

On line
storage is just a gimmick that will go the way of the hula hoop.

What a weird and uninformed assessment of the future of computing! With the
move to more and more mobility and platforms including things like cell
phones and PDAs, not to mention laptops, your assessment is totally off the
mark. You do realize that more and more the Internet is replacing the
standalone computer in both storage and function? I guess not.

Welcome to the real world.

You must be living under a mushroom.

Alias

--
Linux is ready for the desktop! More ready than Windoze XP.
http://tinyurl.com/ldm9d

"Computer users around the globe recognize that the most serious threats to
security exist because of inherent weaknesses in the Microsoft operating
system." McAfee

 

[Alias~-]

What a weird and uninformed assessment of the future of computing! With the
move to more and more mobility and platforms including things like cell
phones and PDAs, not to mention laptops, your assessment is totally off the
mark. You do realize that more and more the Internet is replacing the
standalone computer in both storage and function? I guess not.

Hula hoop. Fad. Gimmick. Mark my words.

You must be living under a mushroom.

http://news.google.com/nwshp?gl=us&...inesstechnology/2003284452_brier02.html&hl=en

Alias

 

[Alias~-]

You must be living under a mushroom.

No, like Willie, I eat mushrooms.

Alias