<![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> The store would operate at a loss but it would be worth it for Microsoft to hang onto market share.

pecheckler

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> hey apple lover, ever heard of sony stores? nintendo store? since ps3 is under sony & wii is under nintendo, its about tym xbox gets its own

niel718

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> butlunch

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Shite! Only MS copies huh? Did not almighty Apple copy Gateway country stores? Learn to apply your fanboy yardsticks fairly dagnabit!

Ashe

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Let's see here, Zune, Media/Gaming/Ergonomic mouse & keyboard, fingerprint readers, lifecam, very own GPS dongle along w/ mappoint, gamewise: age of empires, HALO, gears of war, XBOX 360 & periferals, viva pinata, blue dragon, etc etc. & xbox live. software wise: microsoft office of course, windows vista, server, & xp. lets not forget microsoft surface! and mayb msn tv(but mayb not).

niel718

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> The reason that I see something like this happeneing is because while playing MASSSIVE rounds of FORZA 2 on XBOX yesterday each time i raced in NY i would slow it down to look at the sights and see the buildings and guess what....... THERE IS A MICROSOFT STORE IN THE GAME...... HMMMMM kind of saw this one comming. I think old GATESEY is sending messages through games....... HMMMMM wonder if gears of war 2 will have a mock up PC of the new OS..... LOL

The Alpha & The Omega

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @Kaiser-Machead: That's because you're in NYC, where we'd much prefer you to just get the hell out of the way. :)

DW

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @uberfu:
As hard as it may be for some to believe I for one would prefer a Best Buy over an Apple store any day even though I haven't been in a Best Buy store in almost ten years, in Best Buy there is a wide assortment of products to chose from and some of which I have a desire to actually purchase whereas at an Apple store there is only Apple products which I have no desire to ever purchase. I know that Mac users who are high on sniffing their own farts just can't believe that there are actually others who don't want to buy something sold by Apple but it is true.


Linux_all_the_way

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> LagunaSol

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> That may be a smart move but then again would they start selling computers too???
Are they only going to be dell because even though the average person loves dell there are quite a lot of people that really don't recognize dell as a good computer company even though they kind of are many people would rather buy an HP or a Compaq.
Lets see how this works out. Im sure they have a clue on what they're doing. Especially since they like hosting tournaments for xbox 360's we'll see tournaments running out of these stores.

SneakerFiend

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> does gateway ring a bell?
already been done.
tried and failed



Crrusher

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @UofITom: "They should start a Microsoft restaurant, and I'm being totally serious."

From "The Escapist" by James Morris: "I met Harry and his gang in the lobby and we headed for the Microsoft Hotel for breakfast. We ended up in the Windows Bar and Grill -- an impressive all-glass restaurant atop the tallest tower in Vegas. Unfortunately, they got my order wrong twice, but the third time they delivered something closer to what I wanted. Successive courses got slightly better each time."

Mandatory_Field

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @mbrydges: Hey genious Best buy doesn't make pc's gamestop makes no games, you can sell things you do not make welcome to the future buddy. here we wear shoes and drive cars and eat mcdonalds

Juggrnott

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> makeseven

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> makeseven

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> makeseven

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> microsoft already had a store in the metreon in San Fran. It might have been open before the first apple store.

dkoemans

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> That's like saying "Blue Screen of Death with attract many goths to the store." But I must say a MSFT store would be good because then I'd have someone to complain to about Vista instead of my laptop.

CGrant

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @silomunke: How 'bout the "Smart Guy Saloon?"

GadgetPlay

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @xthemusicmanx: Didn't Apple originally steal it from HP?

GadgetPlay

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @JacquesAss: You can walk through your apple store? The nearest one here is so damn full of Vista hating Yuppies you can't hardly get in the door.

shenanigans61

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> shouldn't have this been posted on April 1st?

media_lush

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @fosho4: LoL, you're funny. As long as there are ignorant office users, there will always be Microsoft.

Amsterdaam

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Maaaaad props on the pic Frucci! It perfectly embodies what the store will essentially be.

Amsterdaam

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Hahahahahaha!!! Ok, maybe it will work...

Hahahahahaha!! Yeah, right!! Just Microsoft trying to fit in like Apple again... Hahahaha, man, I think I peed a little on that one...

richard8a

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @Kaiser-Machead: "As for the hardware-based end of this, there's also the most obvious opportunity that Microsoft has: to offer a larger variety of premium brand computers than Apple has on top of all of the software and computer peripherals that they produce, as well as high-end gaming rigs to accompany their XBox franchise."

Why on earth would Microsoft become a retailer for their Hardware partners? o_O

ara

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Lord loves a lefty.

Nelson

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> lol the line for the technical support will be out the door.

MrBlahBlah

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> They can't sell computers. They don't make them. So basically...

Employee:
"Hi, welcome to the Microsoft Store!"
Customer:
"Hi, I'd like to buy a computer."
Employee:
"Oh, sorry, we don't sell them. But here's Microsoft Office! You have the choice of 8932492347 different versions!"

mbrydges

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> The Microsoft store in the Metreon was a failure. No differentiation between what they stocked and what you could get at BestBuy/CompUSA. I thought that it would be like the Microsoft store at the main campus, but it was just a retail store selling boxes of Office.

anti-hello-kitty

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I can't wait to get a part-time job there...

Sam_Zebian

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Cinloykko

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Wow...Frucci...that picture is amazing. I applaud you for your awesomeness.

tnash

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> $100 for the first picture of a BSOD on screen at one of the stores.

KidDoc

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> It's going to be called "99 Cents Only Stores: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition" and sell nothing but copies of Vista, brown Zunes and Yahoo stock certificates.

Empire

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @NutManIV:

I think it's a great idea. it would be great for their image, make people actually see a different side of the company. btw you forgot surface.

wetworker

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Apple sucks, they'll be bankrupt in the next 3 years, trust me. They have no idea what they're doing, the iPhone, the iPod, terrible, terrible ideas.

ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @JacquesAss:

Both the Colorado stores that I have been to are like this. Even when they are busy, there is usually one person dedicated to greeting people and asking if they need help with anything. Although, I have found most employees to be less knowledgeable about Apple products (and computers in general) than me, but they typically can find an answer for you quickly, and seem to be very helpful to the typical computer consumer.

Also, I have never had a problem checking out. Usually, the person who helps you can check you out instantly (ironically using a hand-held pocket pc device with windows logo on back). The only time I had to wait in line to check out was the day after the iPhone came out, and the store was packed with people.

justinpe

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @Curves:

Since you really dont need technically gifted people to work there anyway, why not just hire a bunch of former Hooters girls.

Genius!

blank

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @NutManIV: eventually the new Microsoft "Surface" as well

St3v3

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> For interior design, I hope they hire the same guy who decided the Zune should be brown. That'll make it 100% craptastic!

sansovino

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> That sounds kind of cool actually. I'm betting a lot of focus on Surface, Zune, and 360 for sure with contracted PC/notebook sales from the heavy hitters in windows based computers like HP or Dell.

Lavallee017

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Didn't they do this already?

Or like, they had plans for it before... but never really gained any attention? or, like, someone lost interest... I can't remember...

xint

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> With so many Best Buys and Fry's and Circuit Cities, these shops tend to not do so hot. I remember there being a kiosk the size of a store at our local mall of Dell products - failed. There's now a Sony Style store, and I occasionally see folks wandering in there to look at the pretty TVs, but it's pretty dead too. Apple Store, sadly, is always packed, meaning I have to usually spend a good 10 minutes trying to flag down a "genius" with one of those handheld credit card machines to make my purchases.

NightElfMohawk

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @liveinvt:

Which store(s) are you going to? The Apple Stores here in Atlanta or so f-ing busy that it's almost impossible to get an "associate" to ring you up, much less answer questions...

JacquesAss

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Coming soon Microsoft Store!!

Opening in 3 months... wait

Opening in 6 months... wait

Opening for sure sometime in the next 12 months..

And when it finally does open it takes at least 10 minutes to get in the door and you have go out an re-enter a couple of times before you can actually buy anything.

decrigeek

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @Nyle: I'm far too irreligious for that :P

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> ...and they shall be called The Blue Stores of Death!

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> daikaiju

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Nyle: no. Lisa, and in turn, Maggie and Marge.

oo0EveryoneElseWasDoingIt0oo

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> First the Microsoft stores will be installed in malls throughout the country. Then, when no one goes into them, they'll offer to buy their neighbor stores for half their value. After their neighbor stores refuse, they'll send smarmy letters making ominous threats. After their neighbor stores tell MS to TFSU, Microsoft will sneak into their back entrances after hours, change their locks, and take them over. Then, no one will go into either the Microsoft or the neighbor stores.

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> oo0EveryoneElseWasDoingIt0oo

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> If anyone would be a Machead it'd have to be Ned Flanders from the Simpsons.

Nyle

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> MS make the OS as well as input devices, PMP's, software, game consoles and games... anyone else wonder if it's only a matter of time before they dip their toes into actual PC hardware like media centers, laptops and desktop machines? Maybe these stores are a step in that direction.

Camperton

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @aimanchi: I'd like to know what exactly is so unique about Apple setting up a retail store. If the Microsoft store starts sharing identical architectural elements, then I guess I can't deny the bite-off.

@liveinvt: I guess this depends on the store/employees, but I have yet to be bugged by the employees of any of the three Apple stores in NYC.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Apple stores are a lot like Sony stores. You walk in, five dudes ask you if you need help, and everything is so spaced out you get a creepy feeling like it's an adult movie store.

liveinvt

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> another rip-off from Apple ideas. I heard there are several top notch people in Microsoft Research. I wonder what they are doing.

aimanchi

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @Darrone: It doesn't actually say "I (heart) South Paws" It says "I (heart) South Park" presumably since South Park is created using Microsoft based workstations.

I got your back, Frooch...

homerjay

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I gotta say, I really do like my zune. The ipod just wasn't for me.

TehBoj

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @NutManIV: You beat me to it. They have a lot more products than Apple fanboys care to admit. MS can afford to take huge losses getting their product out there and more accessible. Putting all their products in one space will help consumers see how all the Live services work together (okay, but not great just yet).

Whats to stop them from having a rep or two and selling cell phone contracts with subsidized WinMo phones?

A media lounge maybe with Xboxes and Zunes for people to play with?

There are a lot of possibilities here.

DomZ

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> OK now, the copying Apple bit just doesn't apply here, though I'm wondering if this will turn out as a positive for Microsoft. Retail can be a fickle, unforgiving bitch goddess, especially since "Microsoft Store" doesn't quite have that flair that Apple Store does.

As for the hardware-based end of this, there's also the most obvious opportunity that Microsoft has: to offer a larger variety of premium brand computers than Apple has on top of all of the software and computer peripherals that they produce, as well as high-end gaming rigs to accompany their XBox franchise. The Zune, well, I don't see it really see it as much of a presence right now, but with all of the things Microsoft does have, and the vendors they license, I don't think it'll matter.

I would go into a Microsoft store, though I question whether or not it will have the same surging PITA crowd that Apple stores draw out.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Maybe this is Bill's idea so he can give Ballmer yet another job after he gets fired as head of Microsoft. He can work as a stock boy at one of these stores.

Hey - Ballmer I told you to get your fat ass over there and put up the clearance sale sign on that Vista display an hour ago! I swear if you didn't have friends in high places I'd of fired your worthless hide on day one!

Yes Sir Mr. High School Student!

boe

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @bookmark: There are plenty of stores available that sell Microsoft stuff and to help you.

And stop calling me "Shirley".

LoganSix

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> WOW I am so suprised to see all this McReSof hating.
You people are so predictable. go back to your sheep and Cow hearding...Lemmings rule


Juggrnott

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Bad Idea

Stores make sense for Apple, because the company has to do outreach to a market that isn't fully aware of Apple. I don't see how the concept helps a ubiquitous company like Microsoft however.

socioecoboy

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I really don't need a place that I can run out and buy Windows Server 2003 or 2008. I need a store that carries some enterprise or server level stuff. It would be great to run out to a store and find a friggen SCSI drive or RAID controller or a UPS larger than 1500.

Razta

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @ejcsanfran: Wow, good find. I'd forgotten about that place. It wasn't terrible exactly, just kind of odd. Sort of Windows NT by way of The Sharper Image. Of course this was before Apple pretty much slayed at retail so...

humorbot

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> The only way on Earth a MS Store could possibly be cool is if J Allard had some hand in it. I'm not saying he even knows anything about retail, but he seems to be the only person at MS who knows what "cool" actually means.

(Oh, and keeping those pesky, profanity-laden teens out of the stores on Friday after their parents dump them off would be a big step up from the Apple Stores.)

DW

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> What I think we're overlooking here is microsoft's non-Consumer related products that they could also offer. Their enterprise stuff is for the most part the industry standard. Having a physical location could allow them to get into first party training as well. Hell apple does this, they just don't do it well, but they will teach you their new software like twice a month. Meanwhile MS just has a way to recommend where to go in your area. But think about a one stop place for Sharepoint, .Net, Silverlight, and all their other products that your average Be$t Buy (see what I did there?) employee has never heard of. Seems like a good concept to me given how many of their products they don't capitalize on.

Slap Bet

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> NOW we know why Bill Gates is pushing for more H-1B visas!

whootowl

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> i wonder what their stores will look like?

xiphi3

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Best. Article. Graphic. Ever.

I now understand that the Zune = left-handed iPod. Everything (including market-share) suddenly falls into place.

JacquesAss

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> With Vista sales down, Microsoft needs a new Tax write-off ... and if this doesn't work, they can just have a big layoff like all other big businesses.

SCAR08

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Tayng

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> This could have a lot more then an apple store if you think about it. You'd have the obvious Zune and Vista stuff. But also xbox (and all related things) and what about the Surface? I'm sure microsoft would have thier stores get the first batch if possible, leading to a LOT of foot traffic?

elbweb

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @freecajunlove & discounteggroll: Yep, Best Buy just started, but it's Best Buy. And supermarkets/Staples/RadioShack etc...can't sell me a mac pro or Logic Studio, etc.. My point is, it's a hell of a lot easier to find a copy of vista in your nearest shopping center than a copy of Leopard.

kahri

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I can see them putting a huge emphasis on Surface in there.

xtremesniper

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @uberfu: I will say I enjoyed hearing an employee at the Apple store explain why iWork was better than Office "in every way."

freecajunlove

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @uberfu: I'm saying the Apple store was ugly, not the it was inefficient.

If anything Apple made my Best Buy worse by putting up, what is essentially, a big black "censor bar" over departments I want to find.

freecajunlove

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @NutManIV & @uberfu: Why would we need a Microsoft store for that? Can't we get all that shit now at every big box retailer?

kahri

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @kahri:
Best Buy sells apple products. Staples and many supermarkets sell ipods and apple accessories/itunes gift cards.

discounteggroll

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @kahri: Best Buy sells a ton of Mac products.

freecajunlove

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @freecajunlove: So you prefer the clutter and chaos - oh excuse me - the stream-lined and efficiency that is Best Buy to the atmosphere of an Apple Store?

Biased or not - you either have one hell of a Best Buy near you or you should get the prescription changed on your glasses_

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @ejcsanfran: Yeah I can add words to a webpage and slap a date on it too_ We need pics_

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I think it works for apple because you can't pick up an apple product at your local big box retailer. How many times in your life have you thougth: "Man I wish there was a Microsoft store".

kahri

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I saw my first Apple store the other day and thought its design was hideous. Then my Best Buy got a HUGE annoying obelisk installed that completely covers up the networking department. Let's Microsoft doesn't copy too much from Apple...

I wonder if one store will sell Office for Mac cheaper?

I'm bias towards Microsoft by-the-way

freecajunlove

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @NutManIV: I tweaked your list:

1. Win Vista
2. Win XP
3. Office 2007
4. Office 2008 [for Mac]
5. Zune v1 [since the Brown Zune was the highest seller over the holidays - whooda thunk?]
6. Zune v2
7. Xbox 360+games and accessories
8. Games for Windows games
9. Microsoft PC accessories. headsets, keyboards, mouse etc.
10. Windows Mobile devices
11. Bumper Stickers - T-shirts - Posters - Tattoos - keychains
12. BSOD Bar
13. Complaint Bar

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> There was an MS retail store at the SF Metreon in 1999. Here's the press release:

[www.microsoft.com]

The store closed in 2001.

ejcsanfran

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> You should make a second pic with slightly altered changes so we can play-find the differences! I have an xbox that has needed 3 repairs so far, so I'm guessing their version of a genius bar would be the "red ring o' death bar" :)

fusedinertia

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @nutbastard: It's the iWod.

Darrone

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> OMG THIS IS AWESOME... Now I can finally send all of my friends who bought Vista somewhere. I don't have any problems with Vista (cuz all I have installed is Firefox) but everyone else I know seems to have em.

Joseph

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @NutManIV:
"I hate apple products"

Im shocked, simply SHOCKED!

"for the most part I absolutely love what Microsoft has been doing lately. <3 zune."

yeah that microsoft iPod is pretty slick. what's it called? ah fuck it, it's an iPod.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> ClamWarden

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @DaOtter: they haven't put out a phone yet!

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @JustEaton:

Well here's what I imagine the Microsoft store would sell.

1. Windows
2. Other microsoft software
3. Zune
4. Xbox 360+games and accessories
5. Games for Windows games
6. Microsoft PC accessories. headsets, keyboards, mouse etc.
7. Windows Mobile devices

And I dunno what else really, but that alone would take up a lot of space in a store.

NutManIV

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> sweet tv's with 360s hooked up, a few surfaces, some fancy computer displays, i can see it now...

Le0nidas

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I have a feeling it's just going to end up being full of kids playing with the Xboxes and adults at the BSOD bar.

pastrychef

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Each store comes pre-filled with a bunch of annoying vendors that you didn't actually want to interact with...

liveinvt

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Intellimouse

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> stupid flanders.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Yeah they're totally copying apple. ATTENTION ALL COMPANIES: YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO OPEN A STORE DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR SELLING YOUR PRODUCTS. THAT WOULD BE COPYING APPLE. That is all.

Id go to a Microsoft store. I hate apple products, and for the most part I absolutely love what Microsoft has been doing lately. <3 zune.

NutManIV

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> The decor be beige cinderblock walls with horrible fluorescent lighting, checkered linoleum flooring and white laminate MDF furniture.

N@tedog

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> does it say "i love south park" on the barrel below the "i love vista" poster?

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> So umm... this is a GameStop that sells PC software? Do we go in, play with the Xbox 360, and when that gets boring, stare at the cool holographic designs on the Vista discs? Microsoft doesn't sell enough hardware for a store. Half the store (or more) would be 3rd party machines and products.

JustEaton

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> don't forget MS Surface! They should start a Microsoft restaurant, and I'm being totally serious.

UofITom

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I can see it now... Zune and Xbox stuffed into one small corner, and the other 90% of the store is shelf space for the 800 different versions of Windows Vista.

worthless

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I thought they already had a store like that named Best Buy?

riqgeez

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> With the last few decisions...

The wii-like 360 controller.
The buying of Yahoo.
And now this store.

I think we are all witnessing the fall of Microsoft.

fosho4

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Aww come on guys! Microsoft isn't "copying" the idea... they came up with it first, Apple copied it and started using it before they could. that's all...

xthemusicmanx

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I wonder what their Genius Bar will be called? The Wisdom Bistro?

silomunke

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @Darrone: You're stretching...not wrong, but you're stretching.

Whatever, it was a nice suggestion though, I got a little kick out of it.

GOKOR

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> And no one at that store will be able to coherently explain to the average american the difference between Vista Capable and Vista Ready either...

Hiphopopotamus

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> And with this, one begins to wonder if the old "Microsoft just copies everything Apple does" saying is true....

TheSonOfKrypton

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]>

DaOtter

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Imagine working there, wall to wall employee discounts and no customers. Cake job. (Seriously, does anyone buy software from anywhere BUT on line?)

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> granted, an opening of the Micro-Mart should threaten business in the near future

discounteggroll

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I can see people lined up at the BSOD bar now...

TedB.

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @GOKOR: Outside of the word "left", I'd say thats unreadable. It could be saying "To get to the Microsoft store, take a left at the apple store, a right at the other apple store, then a left down a sketchy alley."

Darrone

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @Darrone:

Lol nice, go latin

Jesus_Jones

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> It will basically be a bunch of $5 bargain bins like Walmart has full of Vista discs.

However they'll charge you $150 additional for the XP "downgrade" disc / warranty service extension.

boe

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> surely it's their turn to open a store and add some customer services for cpu idiots like me

bookmark

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> ZUNES AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE

Canadian Impostor

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @Darrone: and the left handed t-shirt.

GOKOR

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> @LUV2CattleCall: Eh, I don't own an Apple computer, so it's tough to be too biased towards them. But a software-based store will never be as exciting as a hardware-based one.

Adam Frucci

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> The Microsoft Store is replacing The Leftorium?

GOKOR

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> I'd like to congratulate you on the extreme detail of the background products. That's some very nice editing. (you missed I Heart Southpaws though)

Darrone

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Well, the picture has one thing right, both the Leftorium and MS are sinister.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft Planning to Open Most Exciting Retail Stores Ever]]> Bias much?

LUV2CattleCall

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