Microsoft Planning 75 New Retail Stores to Take on Apple

[cmaier]

OMG OMG, you mean Apple invented the COMPUTER STORE now??

Thanks for that bit of revisionist history!! Whodathunkit?

Don't be obtuse. clearly the design and layout of the MS stores is a direct rip-off of Apple's stores. As you point out, there have been many computer stores prior to Apple's - interesting how MS's doesn't look anything at all like any of these, but looks exactly like Apple's.

 

[quizzi]

and then you can be like "Oh wait this aint the mac store?" "gosh this looks so similar don't you think" and then at the very end be like "So what do you guys sell here?"

record it, put it on youtube and i will watch it to see their expressions

lol...that would be gold!

But yeah you made a fair point there. The Microsoft Retail Store looks strikingly similar to that of Apple's Retail Store; I wouldn't be surprised if people got confused between the two. I mean if you look at the displays and products everything is arranged similarly to that of Apple's. Even the staff are dressed in the blue t-shirts in which you would see on a typical Apple retail employee.

I'm sure if Microsoft had at least acknowledge these similarities and changed them, then people on this thread wouldn't have had an issue with them entering the retail market.

Oh Microsoft, what have you done this time...