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Microsoft Opens First New Retail Store in Scottsdale, Arizona
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I think you know what I meant, Apple the company does. Not the individual stores, obviously.
At least I hang out on the site for a product that I'm a fan of. What are you (M$ fanboy) doing (reading AND posting) on a Macrumors.com?
Got life?
Does the Apple Store offer this?
http://www.destructoid.com/ms-does-on-demand-software-printing-at-retail-152772.phtml
Ummm ... MS SQL is debatable (definitely a lot better than Sybase, it's separated-at-birth twin), but Exchange? Really, that's one of the two examples you pull from your ass of non-crap MS software?
I can't say I've ever come across any employee anywhere who likes Exchange. From unreasonably-low mailbox quotas (finally fixed in the latest version, purportedly), to slow responsiveness, to just plain bugginess, straight on through to "my company is three versions behind in upgrades because MS charges so much and it costs so much in IT's time to upgrade the Exchange server" ... Yeah, lots to love there!
tell me about it
This is just blatantly offensive to me that they would open this store that directly resembles almost every architectural facet of the apple store. You got the glass panes on the front of the store, the tables with the laptops laid out, side walls with the bigger pc's...it's just ridiculous. All I have to say is that no matter how hard they try, their products will always be inferior.
This is just blatantly offensive to me that they would open this store that directly resembles almost every architectural facet of the apple store. You got the glass panes on the front of the store, the tables with the laptops laid out, side walls with the bigger pc's...it's just ridiculous. All I have to say is that no matter how hard they try, their products will always be inferior.
Exactly when is Microsoft gonna come out with something even remotely original???
Almost all of their products these days are Apple rip-offs!! (and now stores)
Almost all of their products these days are Apple rip-offs!! (and now stores)
It seems some Apple store manager has played a terrible practical joke on their employees by swapping all the stuff in the store with Microsoft products.
Strange times we live in.
Strange times we live in.
Shameless
Microsoft has no class, no shame, and a ton of money. I don't wish them well with this venture at all.
Microsoft has no class, no shame, and a ton of money. I don't wish them well with this venture at all.
I'm here because I own and like Apple products, AND MS, Sony, Samsung, HTC, ect. I don't limit myself to just ONE product line and worship it like a "god".
Now, who's got life?
Hehe. I love when they get to the back of the store and there's this moment of: "What now? There's nothing here. I was told there'd be punch and pie."
The last straw for me was my Dell Inspiron 1520 running Vista that began crashing at least once *every day* and requiring a full restart to work again -- and that was only about a month AFTER a clean reinstall of the OS. At that point, I switched to a MacBook, and every time I look back I just shake my head and wonder why it took me so long to switch. The large majority of people I know (family, friends) all continue to suffer through the same BS or have switched to Macs.
I would say that only 20-30% of PC users have not experienced regular issues like crashing or otherwise "bad" OS behavior...and these cases are limited to very infrequent/light computer users or ones working on the older, more stable versions of Windows such as XP, 98, etc.
The difference between Apple and Microsoft stores
Well not much obviously but...
The Apple store is full of people that you would kinda like to have as mates the sort of people that you think yeah there cool and smart and helpful I like them.
The Microsoft store is full of the kind of people that inhabit the basement at the office who have bad teeth and big hair and always seem to have a funny smell that follows them around.
I give it a year tops
Well not much obviously but...
The Apple store is full of people that you would kinda like to have as mates the sort of people that you think yeah there cool and smart and helpful I like them.
The Microsoft store is full of the kind of people that inhabit the basement at the office who have bad teeth and big hair and always seem to have a funny smell that follows them around.
I give it a year tops
I think most folks can easily justify the minor hardware price differences in return for better hardware, unless they are the "I build it in my parent's basement" demographic.
Best strategy if you want AAPL trading at $17, market share back down to 1%, and no more R&D. But explain why that would be good?
