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Photos: Is Tesco more trustworthy than Microsoft?

Find out what punters say as Tesco's £20 software hits the shelves

Tags: microsoft, tesco

By Andy McCue

Published: 29 November 2006 15:10 GMT


Tesco's Complete Office suite is essentially a re-branded version of the old Ability Office software developed for the retail giant by Formjet Innovations, but with more features and a cheaper price tag. It contains all the usual suspects, including a word processor called Write, a spreadsheet, database, PowerPoint-style presentation application and graphics software.

Tesco buyer Daniel Cook claims the company's own-brand software is "bringing choice and value to a market that has offered little of either for too long".

But Microsoft's new UK MD Gordon Frazer said in a recent interview with silicon.com: "Consumers will vote with their wallets. We firmly believe in the value proposition of Office. We're not going to compete with 'free' on the basis of cutting our price, we actually compete with 'free' by being a better product."

Image credit: Tesco


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