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Maybe the X-box area of the store would be ok, but the rest would be boring.

Let me see ....

If M$ opens a retail store ..... will they have just one shelf for their wares ??

I mean.... couldnt you fit an X-Box and its games plus a few copies of WinCrap XP all on one shelf ??

I cant imagine there would be much to look at ...

What HW will they stock? HP? Dell? How will the other vendor react? That's the thing about Apple - it is an experience - it's the hardware, the software, the iPods, the music. Microsoft isn't cool. Microsoft is a corporate panderer who everyone is used to "dealing with". Who needs to go to the mall to see spyware crashing a computer when they can sit at home or work and see it?

MDN: morning

The thought is almost nauseating.

Too funny. Even before the MDN take. MS does not need brand recognition. They need brand rehabilitation. From the Tiger dictionary: …restore (someone) to former privileges or reputation after a period of critical or official disfavor… A store won't do that. What a waste of money.

And to fully replicate the Windows experience, upon entering the store you will be bombarded by ads for online gambling, porn and hair restoration services, thereupon someone will come up and introduce themselves as yourself, and steal your wallet and credit cards, and then erase your memory.

You will also be forced to pay to use the bathroom and to leave the store.

Visit the patent-pending Vapor Room™ where Certified Microsoft Specialists give unending PowerPoint® presentations promising Windows will be "as good as Apple's Mac" next year!

... furthermore, another example of how Microsoft hasn't got an original idea in the multi-billion dollar R&D;heads. I bet 100$ that the stores are brightly lit with hardwood floors, and white fixtures.

Will they offer free showers as you leave? I know I'd feel all dirty after beeing in a MS store. yeeeeeesh >shiver<

Microsoft continues to search for the elusive coolness factor.

Fridays at the Microsoft Retail Store are "Wipe Drive and Reinstall Windows Day!"

Do you think they will have this on repeat at the store???

Are you hip enough?

Can't wait to drop my spyware infested business laptop at the Dunce Bar and tell them to fix the #$^$% thing...

... that is, if the line-up is not several bloks long.

Schlonghorn: Every day would be "Wipe Drive and Reinstall Windows Day"

gosh! I'm really sick and tired of hearing new launch retail stores by giant electronic company like sony, MS. it is interested in watching everyboby follows apple strategy. so they think that they will be succeded? I'm so negative. MS bright side of this reatail plan won't be shed light on itself. it won't be kept longer. it will show some serious deficit.

I just hate whatever MS does.

Too bad they won't be carrying the iPod by HP in their store....

To further replicate the Windows experience, there won't be any locks on the doors and the cash registers will always be left open.

Thanks, Jamie.

No matter how many times I see that, it just makes my day.

MDN MW="once" As in once in not enough.

zero!!!!!

THIS IS AWESOME NEWS!

Now, I can actually tell Microsoft employees how bad their software sucks in person.

Give it another 3 years and they'll be closing their store!

The statement: The move would be the software giant's first big stab at retail ... is not true! Visitors to Macworld SF in 2001, 2002 and spent time in the Sony Metreon shopping center almost directly above the Macworld exhibit hall would have discovered the Microsoft SF store on the 2nd floor. Along with productivity software and operating systems, visitors could purchase Windows 2000 shirts, GO,msn,com keychains and other retail store goodies. While apple has usually been there first, and best, truth is that Microsoft had a store many years before Apple did.

I really hope they try it...because they won't even come close to what Apple has going on...

ok I'm one who doesn't just Bash MS for any reason, but this has to be the dumbest thing ever. Opening a MS on 42nd street how dumb is that, that location is made for people to go have fun! not deal with computer issues? and how about the fact that MS doesn't make it's own Hardware, what are they going to get customers to buy? Another update of XP? I mean I don't get the logic to this one, or maybe they are thinking of selling the Xbox? I mean don't people just go to game stores for those?

MG:shot, As in MS tries to take another shot at what apple as yet again

done years earlier.

One more thing... Matt was right, they did close it after a few years.

They would be better off selling WindBloze XP from a hot dog cart and save some money.

MW = "lay" as in, "M$ will lay another egg in the industry."

Weelll... not before time.
If they major on X-Box and sell Windoze rubbish on top they'll be smirkin' I'd guess...

That's the first time I've seen that Steve Balmer thing, and I have to say that it's the most digusting, obvious corporate rectal sucking I've ever seen in my life. He's fake, ugly, frightening, and probably likes to have large objects shoved up his *** by scary, expensive, tattooed she-men.

That MDN take is CLASSIC!

Yeah, they tried that here in San Francisco (as the article points outs) at the Sony Metreon. It floundered and ended up failing miserably. What makes them think now, a time when their PR is in the toilet is really a good time to try again? And as far as a "dunce bar" I can't even begin to wrap my mind around the waiting list they would have if they offered to help people with their computer problems. Then again, they'd probably just refer customers to their actual computer vendor anyway. How absurd.

I almost wish that MS would regain some ground just to make it a fair match... cos right now, it's just too easy. MS has lost whatever edge that they had and Balmer (monkeyman) is driving the company even further into the ground. Sad.

One word: Gateway!

"Freedom to innovate", sure M$.

These bastards have no class or shame.

First Prize
1 Rio MP3/WMA player
Second Prize
2 Rio MP3/WMA players
Third Prize
A CASE of Rio MP3/WMA players

AND

EVERYBODY will get a 'CANT PLAY iTUNES for SURE' T-shirt.

Ah yes, cos' Windows is so sexy...=P

*BARF*

Nice MDN, I am sure Windows users can't wait to hop over to the Mac side of the fence when smug condescending jerks like yourself use phrases like "Microsoft Dunce Bar™ visitors". That is sure to inspire thousands of potential switchers.

"And, of course, EVERY DAY is LOCK-IN DAY™!"

That wouldn't be anything like being locked into iTunes because of using proprietary DRM that Apple refuses to license out to competitors when customers purchase music would it?

Oh yea thats right, I can rip to CD and then back to MP3 again. That's a good alternative. I am sure a 128 bit AAC file will sound lovely when a user runs that little process through the few hundred dollars worth of music they have bought from iTunes. And simple for the avergae user to do as well! Right.

MDN, just change the site to the Mac Hypcorite Daily News. It just fits better, ya know?

Perhaps ms could put up "kiosks" instead. That way they would spend less money for employee costs. They could make them self-service like ATM's.

That way there would not be as much expense when they have to shut them down due to lack of interest.

And how would you get out of that store once you've had enough? Would you have to go back in again to get out? They need a huge START sign on the front of their store, with "..experiencing your nightmares here!" in smaller print right below it.

Like the TV ads, tons of swirling crap (eighties style!) overly complicated kitchen sink offers everything delivers nothing. "Where do you want to go today?" Answer: as far from here as possible, PLEASE!

I have a feeling that Microsoft is planning to have its own line of hardware for the media center. I don't think they would be doing this if they were going to repeat their failed experiment in SF. Selling MS keychains and x-boxes is an obvious losing proposition. They've seen how Apple has been able showcase their hardware when retailers were not. MS probably has a line of hardware coming out to mimic the Apple hardware/software model.

I think a store like this could end up a target for lot of angry people. A lot of people hate Microsoft and don't want to travel all the way to India to do a face off with them. Hope they plan to have good security. hehehe

MS doesn't have enough class to be in NYC.

It'll be very, very interesting to see whose hardware they showcase, and how well it'll all work (it's already a given every hacker will be gunning for this storefront).

As for store features, my bet is on a disco floor and "Dance With Ballmer" monkey jam sessions. God help us all!

Is this a sick joke ?

Times Square?!

Real New Yorkers AVOID TS, because there are so many sheep-like tourists grazing along at 2 mph. They clog the sidewalks like so much mammalian molasses. If MS wants to cater to visitors from Kansas (the so-called "Intelligent Design" state), then that's the clientele that'll walk in.

MS doesn't have the balls to open a store where real NYC folks would venture. Good move for MS? Fuhgeddaboutit!

I can picture the M$ Store employees... they're the same ones that are big fans of role-playing games, lan parties, Mountain Dew, Doritos, and infrequent bathing habits, mullets, and still live in their mom's basement.

No offense to any Mac users that fit any of the above descriptions.

Line up will include Paul Thurrott, Enderle, his wife, and er...

Oh ywah... all those Windows Zealots (0)

They better get a rock band if they want to draw a crowd..

Biters!

".....
That wouldn't be anything like being locked into iTunes because of using proprietary DRM that Apple refuses to license out to competitors when customers purchase music would it?......."

Hey "Good Job"... Just remember one thing ....

Apple's "proprietary" DRM works for everyone...no matter the platform...

Can the same thing be said for that crappy WMA format your Guru, Billy Gates tries to force upon the the dumb sheep who fall for his malware-magnet crap ??

I think not....

You're the type of person who would defend the "renting" of your music...re: Napster, et al.

So...stay with your crappy OS... and be among the dozen, or so people to actually buy something at the M$ store ... and above all, enjoy your "Plays for Sure" T-Shirt !

You guys keep getting better and better; this is one of the funniest threads ever. I am really checking this site 2x daily now instead of just once in a while. Lotsa stuff goin'on!
MW = took = Took M$ long enough to buy a clue..

I hope the windows of the storefront will be shatterproof ... too bad they can't make their OS the same way.