MacDailyNews reader “Jim – TIV” snapped this photo today at the “Shops at Mission Viejo” mall outside of the Microsoft Store which, Jim reports, was “quite empty… other than the guy sitting in the lounge chair in front of the 3D TV, the rest of the people you see walking around in the store are Microsoft employees.”
A picture is worth a thousand words:
It’s like a mall-wide advertisement for Apple Store Mission Viejo that was, of course, there long before Microsoft opened their copycat outlet.
Jim tells MacDailyNews that at the time he snapped this photo – using his Apple iPhone, naturally – the information screens had been displaying an error message mall-wide for about an hour. We don’t know when or if they’ve yet been fixed.
LOL! I see that kinda thing all the time at the skytrain stations. Suppose to be showing latest news, or current local events but instead it shows a illegal operation fail error lol
Redmond we have a problem!
Epic. Timeless. Sensational.
Microsoft, you’ve done it again…
Maybe MS building stores next to or near Apple stores is not a bad thing after all…
Now all Apple has to do, is put a working video monitor outside it’s mall stores and air this old, old ad and at the end say, “We see nothings changed1”
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Maybe MS building stores next to or near Apple stores is not a bad thing after all…
Now all Apple has to do, is put a working video monitor outside it’s mall stores and air this old, old ad and at the end say, “We see nothings changed1”
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Maybe MS building stores next to or near Apple stores is not a bad thing after all…
Now all Apple has to do, is put a working video monitor outside it’s mall stores and air this old, old ad and at the end say, “We see nothings changed1”
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I’ve seen that three times last year alone. Once in a shopping-centre too, once at the zoo, and once in a public bath. That’s nothing special, it’s Windows! Nice photo though…
Synergy!
Who would have any need whatsoever to go into a M$ store?
and the store appears packed to the rafters with customers to boot…
I’ve got a collection of Windows error screens from a number of places – high-tech gas pumps (showing BSOD instead of today’s weather & news), GPS demo units on display in Target (pretty sure nobody’s going to buy the Windows Error model) – it’s surprising how many places you can find Windows error message screens!
@MrFlish…
Other than the guy sitting in the lounge chair in front of the 3D TV, the rest of the people you see walking around in the store are employees…
The difference between trying to elbow your way through the crowd at the Apple store to get to a computer or the genius bar a hundred yards away, and seeing the MS store looking like a pickle convention is taking place is fairly constant.
@MrFlish
“and the store appears packed to the rafters with customers to boot…”
It looks like they have one maybe two customers from this perspective, the rest are employees. That store has way way too many employees, I bet they’ll have to start laying folks off soon.
Bad karma by the truck load.
@MrFlish
I guess it depends on your definition of “packed”. I count 14 people in the store from that angle.
Sheesh – @ Jim TIV, praus, MacTony – doesn’t anyone have a sense of irony any more?
A Windows crash? Whaaaaaaaat? AGAIN? AND AGAIN? AAANND AGAIN? AAAAANNNNND…………………
I got one of those on a gas pump not long ago. Pretty funny.
That’s some damn fine photography, my friend.
It goes to show that software is the problem. Made by the chunkiest software company in the world.
With such stupidity from MS, you have to wonder how on earth they continue to beat Apple every year for their quarterly reports. It’s insane.
Chrissy… you can believe my son was telling me how to frame the shot juuussssttttt right.
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Those of you who’ve actually seen one – what does a Microsoft store actually sell?
It is NOT a problem. It is not bad thing. IT IS THE BEST SHOW I EVER SEE. It is free show! WOW. I love it!
Ouch!!
MDN Word: death
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Ouch!!
MDN Word: death
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