Microsoft Opens First New Retail Store in Scottsdale, Arizona

[SchneiderMan]

Everyone is trying to copy Apple its no secret

 

[/dev/toaster]

Microsoft should change their motto to: Can't beat em with innovation ? Attempt to beat em with imitation.

Its really pretty sad if you think about it.

 

[Jodlesx]

This opportunity for MS-bashing must be like Christmas Eve for the fanboys

Keep it up! This is great Thursday evening entertainment

 

[lex750]

Looks like the women's perfume counter at Macy's, either that or a cross between Eddie Bauer & American Eagle

Actually that was just a fraction of the dual level store. It was at the Sony Metreon in SF. It was very nice store, and very well done.

 

[spice weasel]

I wonder if people can people bring in their RROD'ed XBox 360s to be fixed at these MS stores. They might be awfully crowded if that's the case.

 

[The Samurai]

How original of MS to do this.

[/sarcasm]

 

[Parky]

lol. You guys are such fanboys bashing the store.

We are not bashing the store, we are bashing MS for yet again turning on their photocopier! Could it be more like an Apple Store?

 

[JoeDRC]

If they aren't selling computers then this seems like a big fail.

Customer: I've been playing with this PC here, checking out Windows and I think I'd like to buy.
MS Employee: Great! Would you like me to get you a copy of Windows from the shelf?
Customer: Actually I needed a new computer because my old one is dead.
MS Employee: Oh. Well, we don't actually sell the computers.
Customer: Then what are these ones here for?
MS Employee: To show off our software.
Customer: But how do I run your software if I don't have a computer?
MS Employee: Err, well, you'd have to buy one first. You could get one at Best Buy.
Customer: If I go to Best Buy to buy the computer why should I come all the way back here to buy the software when I can get it at the same time there?
MS Employee: Ummm.

At an Apple Store they obviously make the computers and the software that comes with it. If you go try out a Mac at an Apple Store, you can then buy exactly what you're looking at, right there.

..... Oh. was that meant to funny? Apple stores don't make computers, factories in china do.

 

[psykohed]

OMG!! It's downright creepy how much they have copied Apple Stores. It almost looks like an SNL skit! With all the different PCs it still looks like a garage sale in there.

 

[DMann]

wow...i know 4 people in that video. they are total fanboys... i smell plants!

No doubt.

I wonder if they ever get embarrassed ripping off other peoples ideas.

MS? Their 'claim to fame.'

Monkey see, monkey do

It's like MSFT said "hey, this is what Apple does. Replace the Apple logos with Windows logos" -- I guess we should be used to that by now.

No can do - more incentive to check out the Apple Store.

Just cant come up with their own good ideas can they, what a waste of space what are they going to sell? software?

Micro-Cheese Birthday parties:

Wow, except for the inferior products on their shelves, I would could have sworn this would have been an Apple store!! Copy to the n'th degree.

"Me too," without the content.

What a wonderfully original concept! I can't understand why no-one's ever thought of doing something like this before. Such innovative store layout and design. And as for the concept of the Answer Bar - well that's just a stroke of genius.

They're firing on all two cylinders now.

For fun, let's all go into the store absent-mindedly, and then ask them where are the new iMacs and iPods. When they tell you they have none, yell loudly, "What! What kind of Apple Store is this?!" and storm off.

They wouldn't get it.

Me thinks Ballmer has lost all common sense and is opening these stores because he has a personal vendetta against Apple

Look at where the Zune got him.

hmm, sort of looked like the Fashion Square mall in the heart of Scottsdale.

Good location, must be expensive. I just don't see what all the clapping is about....

"And here we are showing our newest Windows 7 on this laptop made by HP, you can also view the desktop over there with the same operating system running on a Toshiba.....and no, you cannot purchase these computers here"

lame

Typically so.

Such a desperate attempt.

And a mighty expensive one at that!

 

[lex750]

We are not bashing the store, we are bashing MS for yet again turning on their photocopier! Could it be more like an Apple Store?

We only see what we want to see. Open your eyes.

 

[4God]

....And as for the concept of the Answer Bar - well that's just a stroke of genius.

Yep! Perfectly said!



I guess I'm just in one of my moods today....

 

[Daremo]

I'm waiting for the release of the "MIphone"

 

[dba7dba]

I predict Microsoft Retail stores will be shutting down or won't be as successful as Apple's.

Why? viruses, bugs, crashes.

Their store fronts will be packed with people wanting help from virus infection, etc etc. I give it 6 months...

 

[thecartoonguy]

it looks kinda like... ahhh i won't go there

Oh pick me!!! IT'S AN APPLE STORE!!!! Can't they even design something even remotely clever on their own?

 

[roland.g]

I couldn't tell, but do they have an Xbox area there. It would seem that if a M$ fan went into an M$ store to buy an Xbox and they didn't have it, that would be not only be absurdly idiotic but also par for the course.

Me, I'm more of a PS3 fan, but it just seems to me that an M$ store that doesn't sell Xbox stuff is completely and utterly pointless.

 

[JustGretchen]

That video is so depressing.

I mean are they even capable of thinking of a revolutionary idea on their own?

THEY EVEN RIPPED OFF THE FUXKING TSHIRTS!!!!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!

 

[thecartoonguy]

OMG!! It's downright creepy how much they have copied Apple Stores. It almost looks like an SNL skit! With all the different PCs it still looks like a garage sale in there.

Laughing. You're 1000000% right!!

 

[Bubba Satori]

I love this thread.

The outrage. The melodrama. The twisted panties. The huge manatee.

I wonder if you have to wait a week or two for an appointment at the AnswerPub ?

 

[cpt.iphone]

I bet you that video was taken by an iPhone 3GS!

 

[cawesjmu]

Actually that was just a fraction of the dual level store. It was at the Sony Metreon in SF. It was very nice store, and very well done.

Is it still open?

 

[Hypocrite]

It will make me think now

Now it will make me think should I buy this shiny new item at the Apple Store for +1000 or a much cheaper option that fits my budget and has an operating system just as capable as Snow Leopard. I love competition always gives me satisfaction.

 

[MattG]

Yawn.

Seconded

 

[DMann]

I'm waiting for the release of the "MIphone"

This promo was just released today:

Zune Phone

 

[lex750]

I predict Microsoft Retail stores will be shutting down or won't be as successful as Apple's.

Why? viruses, bugs, crashes.

Their store fronts will be packed with people wanting help from virus infection, etc etc. I give it 6 months...

Only in the eyes of a lunatic fanboy is everything MS, 50% viruses, 40% BSOD, and 10% startup. Luckily you are just a fraction of the 10% market share, but you are quite entertaining. Thank you.