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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)."
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.