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Microsoft Opens First New Retail Store in Scottsdale, Arizona

Seriously, can't Microsoft do ANYTHING original? If I were them I'd be embarrassed to show it to anyone - it's another Apple design rip off.
 
rorschach said:
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.
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Microsoft is now selling the computers. They even do it online at their new online store.

The funny part is gonna come when a person buys a crappy PC from the Microsoft store and takes it in to the "answer bar"

That will be a nightmare for Microsoft.

Love it!
 
George Blankenship is a cheater. Walking away from Apple and now helping Microsoft. Such a shame.
 
When you're bashing Microsoft and such, to me atleast, it just makes it sound like you feel threatened by them.

Anyways I like the store looks nice.
 
Parky said:
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?
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Yeah, like Apple never copies anyone. Why reinvent the wheel?

Boy, get a load of all the negative ratings on this thread. You cheerleaders are out in full force on this one. :D

I wish MS fast success lest Apple rest on their laurels too long celebrating their record quarterly earnings.
 
Dan73 said:
When you're bashing Microsoft and such, to me atleast, it just makes it sound like you feel threatened by them.

Anyways I like the store looks nice.
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WHO's feeling threatened? Is MS feeling confident when they COPY the whole Apple Retail Store concept? Such Confident copycats I guess.
 
Even that advertisement/promotional poster in the back at the beginning of the video that says 'Infinite Possibilities' looks like a copy of Apple's App Store Promo poster.
 
thedave3000 said:
Seriously, can't Microsoft do ANYTHING original? If I were them I'd be embarrassed to show it to anyone - it's another Apple design rip off.
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Industrial Minimalist Showrooms. That is not an Apple design. It's 2009. What do you want their stores to look like? The 80's? Really.
 
ThunderSkunk said:
I half expected at any moment, to see a jiggly Ballmer bouncing across the screen, fists clenched, red faced, voice breaking, shreiking, streaking possibly, jaw agape, one eye shut from the brain hemmorage over the excitement that they actually managed to open something as mind-bogglingly difficult as... a retail store in a mall. And a complete copy of their competitors at that. Maybe a little foaming at the mouth. ...a string of drool whipping around strung over everyone, at very least.

I love seeing big companies, capable of so much, do so little. Gives us little guys hope.
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Nightmarish and surreal:

03-09_iPodSteveBallmer.jpg
 
dba7dba said:
WHO's feeling threatened? Is MS feeling confident when they COPY the whole Apple Retail Store concept? Such Confident copycats I guess.
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Oh gosh, MS decided to open up a store, A STORE, clearly they ripped off the idea because Apple invented the store eh?

Anyways Apple stores and this Microsoft store do look SIMILAR but not identical.
 
newfoundglory said:
I seem to remember the initial concept for a Microsoft store was going to be that the customer couldnt actually buy! The the store was designed as a way of asking questions and having a play. The reason being that they didnt want customers to feel pressured into buying anything. Now, is that actually the case? A retail store where you cant actually buy anything?
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I'm equally curious as to what they actually sell at these stores... can you buy Dell, HP, and Sony computers there? If not, do they expect to sell just software? I just don't get it. :confused:
 
Diseal3 said:
I acually think that looks nice. I see minor resemblance to the apple store but it acually has a different feel to it.
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PLEASE tell me this is sarcasm. It looks just like an Apple Store, even has computers that look like somewhat like Apple's. So ridiculous, unoriginal, and desperate.
 
Dan73 said:
Oh gosh, MS decided to open up a store, A STORE, clearly they ripped off the idea because Apple invented the store eh?

Anyways Apple stores and this Microsoft store do look SIMILAR but not identical.
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You need help with reading comprehension. Who said Apple invented the store?
 
Clarification

I am in need of clarification on one topic: Will you actually be able to buy anything inside these stores?

I have heard things that indicate either way. Does anybody know for sure? If they aren't selling anything physically inside the store, they're in trouble. Gateway tried doing this once before, and failed. I remember going into the Gateway store near my home. It was a good store, had a nice layout, and advertised its machines well, and I thought it was a good idea (this was before the Apple Store, IIRC). However, when I learned that you couldn't actually pick up a machine and take it home (they ordered it and you picked it up), I was immediately turned off. Dell has done the same thing with their kiosks, and it looks like Microsoft could be making the same mistakes.

One of the best things about the Apple Store is that I can try something, ask questions, buy it, take it home and put it on my desk, all in one day. For Microsoft's sake, I hope they realized this.
 
JustGretchen said:
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!
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yeah, and they even ripped off the "id on a lanyard" thing that the employees wear that say what they do. i've never seen more of a blatant ripoff in my life. at least come up with your own ideas.
 
Maybe they will be selling...

I know that one of the highest forms of flattery is copying, but this is seriously just jacked up. You don't see someone creating a burger joint that looks 95% like a McDonalds. Not only do companies work hard to create a brand through their logo, but if you'd drive around looking at stores or walk around a mall and none of the stores had logos or signs, I bet you could tell what the store was 99% of the time.

Bob Evans looks like Bob Evans
Abrecrombie & Finch looks like themselves.... etc.

This is so stupid.

But the real question is maybe they are selling computers in the store - an announcement that was hidden by all of the windows 7 hoopla was that Microsoft is beginning to sell computers from their online store as of day.

Blah - why can't MS come up with their own design for a store.

http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/Computers/category/4
 
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