“Microsoft has hired a former Wal-Mart executive, David Porter, to help it create a line of retail stores,” Tim Beyers writes for The Motley Fool. “So that’s what it’s come to? Mr. Softy’s Apple envy is about to be made real as Everyday Cheap Software? Talk about the dumbest idea ever.”
Beyers writes, “Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner said in a company press release:”
We’re also working hard to transform the PC and Microsoft buying experience at retail by improving the articulation and demonstration of the Microsoft innovation and value proposition so that it’s clear, simple and straightforward for consumers everywhere.
Beyers writes, “So, Microsoft’s retail stores will help show off … Windows? …Dumb move, Mr. Softy.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Rarely have we seen a concept so universally derided as Microsoft retail stores. Even Vista and Zune were better received. The fact that Microsoft is seriously considering retail stores is proof positive that the company’s “management” has an unmeasurably over-inflated opinion of the company. They’re completely delusional. It’s as if they don’t realize that they suck. And that’d actually be somewhat sad, if it weren’t so effing funny!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JES42” for the heads up.]
