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Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft Store
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)."
A ripoff of the Apple store, because you know, Apple truly invented the concept of having your own retail outlet.
Right.
Even in the computer industry it's not that hard to find examples that preceded Apple.
Sorry, but if you're going to condemn Microsoft with your logic, condemn Apple. Plus, you can do the same for the iPod and Google!
PS, Vista IS Windows. Note how they call it Windows Vista? Not that there's been any real trouble on my part playing games either. The only ones that I had problems with...I had problems with them on XP. Oh Turbine, why oh why must you make such crappy installers!
they would probably invite you inside, then in front of everyone ask you to install it on a pc and ask you to demo some common tasks on it. when you fail miseribly with the sound and 3d video no working, you'll no doubt stammer something about it being the hardwares fault.
that or they might ask you to leave, and when you cause a scene they call the cops and we get the next "don't tase me bro".
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
peole don't use MS products because they love them, they use them because they feel they have no choice . Apple users strive to own Apples, while MS users largely resent MS.
The geek resents Microsoft - and projects his anger on all the world. It is a peculiarly adolescent response.
Facts no longer seem to matter.
The bazaars of the third world are filled with pirated copies of Windows. Here at home, sales of the Linux netbook have tanked.
Walmart has pulled Linux off the shelves and off-line.
No one in the states tried longer or harder to make a go of Linux in deep discount retail.
For the Back-To-School trade, Walmart.com has 53 Vista desktops eligible for a free upgrade to Win 7 for sale - and God alone knows how many laptops.
The Win 7 RC has about 1/2 the global desktop share of Linux. It reached those numbers in less than six months.
"while MS users largely resent MS" Where the hell did you get this idea?
For my entire working life techies, office staff, and middle management, have been putting up cartoon strips with pictures of frustrated looking workers gathered around a computer and slogans like 'Why don't we just give Microsoft all the money and call it a day?'
Maybe thats where he gets the idea that MS users resent MS. The sentiment really does exist. Apple users on the other hand will spend the whole day telling you about their pride and joy given half a chance.
- You have publicly shown there ARE people who don't like MS or take it for granted
Nobody cares. Microsoft are keenly aware of this already, probably - there's no need to be a prick to demonstrate it. At any rate, people will think you're an idiot.
- Shown the other people in the shop there ARE alternatives (maybe even given them an idea, though I am not too optimistic about that)
If they didn't care before, they certainly won't care now that you've acted like a cretin in front of everyone and made a huge fuss for no good reason.
If those shop-monkeys (sp?) used the language you mention they are exposed as dumb, rude shitheads and hopefully prevent some sales to customers not wanting to buy anything in a shop where the employees are rude and dumb :-)
No, being dumb and rude is going into a shop with which you've had no prior business dealings and demand a refund on something they didn't sell to you, making a huge scene and then claiming it as some kind of exceptionally retarded protest. In the circumstances, I think they'd be quite justified in explaining to you it's none of their business.
(But it still would be fun to have a bunch of people pulling this off a few times a day, just to piss off MS!)
"A few times a day"? You grossly overestimate the number of idiots in the world who want to evangelise Linux in what is quite possibly the stupidest, most infantile way ever. It wouldn't even piss off Microsoft - it'd piss off the store clerks, Microsoft the corporation wouldn't know or care.
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