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Microsoft Signs Leases to Open Retail Stores in Arizona and California
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The first personal computer I ever purchased was a Macintosh LC II. Studying engineering, I had to purchase PCs twice, but my Compaq desktop broke within two weeks and I couldn't get any tech support from the Indian call center for my Dell 9300 laptop. Life was less stressful using MATLAB, Visual C++ and PSPICE under Virtual PC during my Pre-OS X PowerPC years.
You think MS is going to offer solutions when the problems with their licensed OS is the money maker?
Please. If you have a virus what is the guru going to do, tell you to buy Norton's anti virus that is like in 500 different flavors. You know MS doesn't have a built in virus killer.
Look, MS makes its money off of their OS from pc sells. So the pc vendor has to do everything possible to get you to buy, including Best Buy and the like, another pc. Boom! That is the business model.
Now if MS went on a limb and start helping you have a stable pc experience, then there goes the pc sell along with MSs OS profit. Them OEMs will be pissed.
This is nothing more than a marketing gimmick to trick the stock market into thinking MS has one up on Apple.
When these stores open, we'll see who gets the better customer service, Apple folks at Apple or pc folks at them MS stores. I think you already know the answer.
Please. If you have a virus what is the guru going to do, tell you to buy Norton's anti virus that is like in 500 different flavors. You know MS doesn't have a built in virus killer.
Look, MS makes its money off of their OS from pc sells. So the pc vendor has to do everything possible to get you to buy, including Best Buy and the like, another pc. Boom! That is the business model.
Now if MS went on a limb and start helping you have a stable pc experience, then there goes the pc sell along with MSs OS profit. Them OEMs will be pissed.
This is nothing more than a marketing gimmick to trick the stock market into thinking MS has one up on Apple.
When these stores open, we'll see who gets the better customer service, Apple folks at Apple or pc folks at them MS stores. I think you already know the answer.
Well thats why everyone switch because it was new and it worked. Kinda like this corrupt crappy OS coming out from google. Don't get it they just want your info and spy on us plus they already have 92837928574 trillion dollars to begin with but watch everyone flock to it test it out for a few months then either hate it or love it. But I don't see the competition.
I swear it's one after another, copying apple again. They need to stop. They sell crappy PC's for the price you get plastic crap that last a week then what? THEN WHAT!? Been using windows 7 for months & not liking it anymore, it's a cop off vista same system kernel, they just need to redo the whole thing. It's just the same old boring crap.
Yeah the Dell PC that I bought on 7/29/2005 is still running great with no issues... It runs XP, Vista & WIN7 with no trouble.. Also the metal case that its in is pretty nice...
There, fixed that for ya!
Registry Cleaning Bar can be tricky and screw up everything seems windows love doing that. Sometimes it works I give them that but I don't see it lasting for more then a few months.
I believe it was a TRS-80 with basic programming language selling for about $500.....lol
Yeah I have no problems with windows 7 or xp but vista is just pure failure garbage. Win7 reminds me of it which it's pretty much vista but with a bit of a performance boost and some tweaks but that's all I see. Just a big update. I hope snow leopard is what they say it does actually does it.
Well, you could say "What original idea has Apple had?", and you could find prior examples for the majority where this has been done before.
For example:
iTMS - well, not original because there have been online store selling digital products before.
AppStore - well, no, because there have been online stores selling smartphone applications before AppStore saw the light of day - you could use your phone to download the software and install directly on your phone.
It was already stated in another thread what these stores are going to focus on; Windows 7, Surface and Zune. Of course they will still want PCs to run Windows 7 on, it remains to be seen whose PCs they use. I would guess that if people bring their PCs in to get fixed they will tell people to call the manufacturer, and if the machine is out of warranty they might offer to fix it for some extortionate price, just like Apple. But remember that Apple users expect to get this service at an Apple store because its in their Applecare plan. PC users don't have his expectation, it's not part of PC culture to take it to a shop to get it fixed, you expect the repair guy to come to you.
Will the fanbois quit harping on about copying? If a business model is good, of course others are going to try it. If Apple hadn't copied anything there would be no iPod, no iPhone. Some things are just useful, Apple has no copyright on useful.
Will the fanbois quit harping on about copying? If a business model is good, of course others are going to try it. If Apple hadn't copied anything there would be no iPod, no iPhone. Some things are just useful, Apple has no copyright on useful.
"Pretty much a mac" ...?
I am not 75; I am 23 and I have owned an HP desktop, still own a Dell laptop and also have a MBP and an iMac. My point is that it is amusing to sit here and read comments people make about a STORE.
I am sure the fanboys will really lose it when MS plays their Laptop Hunter commercials in the new stores. It will be an apple fanboy apocalypse.
Wah wah, I switched developing focus from the iPhone to Android. Obviously you are young, so I won't try and shift the focus of this thread too much. your darling iPhone sells out your information every second it is connected to your AT&T tower. Patriot Act partnership with AT&T. They record every bit of data off that baby. Deal with it.
I would like to see a Google store, where all the employees where costumes to look like children's show characters. Their interface is so basic feeling, you might as well make the store feel strange as well. Chrome should have a lot of nice R&D from Android when it rolls out. Each update of Android I get only makes it slicker. Still waiting for the sexy interface in Eclair.
I disagree, with WIN7, XBOX LIVE, Project Natal & Bing I think MS has some cool products. That's not to say they don't have some turds (MSN & ZUNE) that they need to drop or redo...
I just got the slow motion video footage of their reaction when they see people happy inside, playing Xbox games, families using Surface. It'll be that scene with their horrified faces, crying, peering in. Camera zooms in slow motion with the Joker whine/sound from Dark Night. Apocalypse indeed.
Microsoft is forever following Apple. Some things never change.
No, Baldmer, this STILL won't make your ailing dinosaur operation look "cool."
MS is truly out of ideas, and for years now.
Whoops, that's not entirely true. They've still got that Big-Ass Table(TM) . . . somewhere.
No, Baldmer, this STILL won't make your ailing dinosaur operation look "cool."
MS is truly out of ideas, and for years now.
Whoops, that's not entirely true. They've still got that Big-Ass Table(TM) . . . somewhere.
Microshaft
has Microshaft had any original ideas at all or is everything they do a copy of Apple.
has Microshaft had any original ideas at all or is everything they do a copy of Apple.
I've used one on the Microcrap campus. (friends work there). Trust me, it's retarded. You'll sit down expecting something amazing and get up two minutes later when you realize it's just another stupid idea from M$.
Only idiots will go to the M$ store. Only idiots buy M$ products.
Ha ha, you're not helping your case here. What did we own before a Mac? Well, for me of course a Windows PC. What do I own now? A Mac. Your point?? What's significant is what I own now, not what I owned before.
Also, I can assure you there are a lot of people here who've never owned anything other than a Mac.i'm not buying it. if i were having those problems, and i seriously thought it was the service and not the hardware or network i was on, i wouldn't still be paying $99 a year for it either.
add to that there are a lot more services and features packed into your $99 a year. if all your using it for is the Me.com website, then you are stupid, and should've just gone with gmail in the first place.
Have to agree with some of you on Vista. Vista had some legacy issues at the start & was a bit bloated. I think MS never got past the perception in the consumers mind that Vista sucks...Most of the issues were people trying to run Vista on older hardware...Some of that MS fault because they loosened the requirements too much & some is just stupid people trying to run a modern OS on old hardware...
Ha ha, you're not helping your case here. What did we own before a Mac? Well, for me of course a Windows PC. What do I own now? A Mac. Your point?? What's significant is what I own now, not what I owned before.
I guess you missed what else I have said. I am not making a case for MS or Apple....