Tesco Value Software

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:48 am 0

Tesco said it would offer six packages, including office software, security systems and a photo editing tool.

Britain's biggest retailer said each title would cost less than Â£20, challenging what it described as the current "high" price of PC software.

Tesco Value word processor? Hmm. Prices going down is good, some software is stupidly expensive - PhotoShop, etc.

But Tesco expanding into yet another market - I'm not so sure I want to give any more of my money to Tesco - currently 12.5% of all UK retail is by Tesco.

20thCenturyBoy · Post by **20thCenturyBoy** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:12 am 0

Don't PCs come with MS Works or Lotus Smartsuite anymore?

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:15 am 0

BBC News wrote:

Tesco said its own-brand software range, which will also include a CD/DVD burning tool, would be available in 100 of its stores from later in October.

The supermarket group said it had developed the range of titles with UK software distributor Formjet.

Formjet's products include Ability Office, a software package which includes word processing, spreadsheet and photo editing applications, the basic version of which retails at Â£20.99.

You can get cheap CD burning software etc, it ain't Nero, but neither will Tesco's be Nero. Open Office is much less expensive than Tesco's offering.

Â£20.99? Â£19.99 yes, Â£24.99 yes, but Â£20.99? I don't remember the last time I saw anything offered at that price.

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:26 am 0

Wow, so it's like a Â£20 version of OpenOffice?

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:34 am 0

aureole wrote:Wow, so it's like a Â£20 version of OpenOffice?

Yes, but you can get it while doing your weekly/monthly food shopping.

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:37 am 0

aureole wrote:

Wow, so it's like a Â£20 version of OpenOffice?

It's not 100% clear from the article, but it sounds more like a Â£19.99 version of Open Office Writer, with options of a Â£19.99 version of Open Office spreadsheet, a Â£19.99 version of Nero, a Â£19.99 version of Open Office database, a Â£19.99 version of Norton Internet Security, and something else to make the number up to six packages.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:09 pm 0

Want any of these?
http://www.formjetplc.com/500-products.htm

f.e.a.r. · Post by **f.e.a.r.** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:09 pm 0

Stolen from b3ta...

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:26 pm 0

I *hate* companys exploiting one monopoly to get another market

Tesco's did a good job, and in many ways deserves its place.
But I really dont like sideways moves like this.
Its a "megacorp" future , worse, it may one day, lead to GlobeCorp.

Tesco's should instead work and invest in better conditions and technologys for their own market. They have the power to make a big difference, particularly in fairtrade stuff.

They could also, no dought, invest in food containment technology. So things arnt overpackaged and unrecyclable. They could then sale these developments on.
Theres plenty more profit they could make -*while staying in their own industary*-
Or how about some really radical ideas? How about growing stuff in certain stores so things are really fresh?

bah.
Anyway, I bet OpenOffice/Google Writely/GoogleSpreedsheet/GIMP ect will be vastely better then anything tescos offers.

Allthough people will buy the tescos because they dont know there is free, safe, stuff online.

Besides anyone else get their shopping from Tescos direct?
I use it all the time, their site sucks and is very unreliable.
I dont trust their software skills.

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:37 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:

people will buy the tescos because they dont know there is free, safe, stuff online.

That is all that Tesco will care about.

I really dont like sideways moves like this.

They already sell games, DVD RWs, mice, webcams, monitors, cameras, phones, kettles, etc. Their competitor Morrisons also sells games and DVD Rs. This isn't that far sideways.

mattley · Post by **mattley** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:03 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:Besides anyone else get their shopping from Tescos direct?
I use it all the time, their site sucks and is very unreliable.
I dont trust their software skills.

Yet you trust them to supply your food...

... You need to get your priorities soerted out.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:18 pm 0

Yes, I do.

I have evidence that their software is shit (website)
I have evidence their food is mostly good (20 years of me eating the stuff + millions of others).

Of course, mostly they dont make food anyway, but rather ship it around and box it.

zip accident wrote:
Darkflame wrote:

people will buy the tescos because they dont know there is free, safe, stuff online.
That is all that Tesco will care about.

Of course it is.
But Id rather consumers got more inteligent, and big companys didnt exploit ignorance.
Its wrong. I dont know what set of laws, or how, this should be stoped, only that its a bad trend.

I really dont like sideways moves like this.

They already sell games, DVD RWs, mice, webcams, monitors, cameras, phones, kettles, etc. Their competitor Morrisons also sells games and DVD Rs. This isn't that far sideways.[/quote]

They dont make (or brand) them.
They buy and sale on...very important difference.

When big compants start spreading out into makeing stuff however, the little ones slowly get swallowed. Its a very bad trend.
Competition is great, but the bigger companys get, and the more spread out they get...the less real competition takes place.

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:48 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:

They dont make (or brand) them.

I've bought a Tesco brand mouse within the last year. It was a ballmouse, for emergencies, but for Â£2.49, I won't grumble. Also a Tesco brand SD card, that time they fooled me, much more expensive than you can get on the net (cheaper than most other shops probably, but shops do take excessive profits on SD cards).

They don't brand all of it, but they sell branded blank DVDs I'm pretty sure, and there are probably other branded peripherals.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:50 pm 0

Soon we'll all be living *inside* giant Tescos. Or they'll be invading Denmark...

Cheers

Bubba

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:01 am 0

mattley wrote:
Darkflame wrote:Besides anyone else get their shopping from Tescos direct?
I use it all the time, their site sucks and is very unreliable.
I dont trust their software skills.
Yet you trust them to supply your food...

... You need to get your priorities soerted out.

That reminds me of the survey taken in America shortly after the Louise Woodward case that said only about 5% of people with au pairs would trust them to use their car...