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Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft Store

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the innovation-on-display dept.

theodp writes "Chuck E. Cheese, meet Bill H. Gates. A leaked PowerPoint posted at Gizmodo provides a glimpse of what Microsoft's retail shops may look like, noting that you'll even be able to pay to celebrate your birthday there. Some of the stores that were profiled for ideas were Nike, Nokia, Sony, Apple, and AT&T. Microsoft's take on the Genius Bar is the Answers Bar (aka Guru Bar, Windows Bar)."

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  1. Re:Microsoft has retail stores? by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As a person who doesn't buy iPhone because of that fascist store idea, I must use the opportunity to tell RIM, Nokia, MS, Telecoms, whatever to stop photocopying app store.

    It doesn't work that way. Simple as that. I am telling as a guy who went to Nokia's millions of dollars wasted Ovi store and got ashamed on behalf of them.

    BTW, you know why Apple stores have started up at first place. I don't know if it is a fact or a very good theory but Apple stores have started because Apple computers were actually "becoming invisible" in all that PC laptop circus. As simply every non Apple computer runs Windows, what part of MS is getting lost in process? BTW that is a real effect, I saw some excellently designed, excellent feature set laptop completely becoming invisible when put near tens of other "put some blue led and make screen shine" laptop crap.

  2. Don't call it the Windows Bar . . . by Taedirk · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Call it the Task Bar.