“Today’s a big day in suburban Colorado. Microsoft is coming to town, opening a new front in its well-publicized retail war with Apple,” Tim Beyers reports for The Motley Fool.
MacDailyNews Take: A “big day” for whom, exactly? And, some “war,” Tim. Microsoft has three empty boxes that have to dangle free concert tickets to get people to come to their opening vs. Apple’s 250+ retail store worldwide network that makes billions of dollars and generates long lines of people at grand openings and product releases, no concert tickets required.
Beyers reports, “I’m here, surveying the event and somewhat lengthy line, which appears to be comprised of as many fans of Disney Channel’s Demi Lovato as Microsoft technology. Why? The first 1,000 shoppers get tickets to a Lovato performance on Saturday at the Park Meadows Mall, where Apple and now Microsoft both have retail operations.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Those three empty Microsoft Retail Stores are symbolic of a failed, visionless, derivative company. That said, “May Microsoft shareholders remain catatonic, so Steve Ballmer can remain Microsoft CEO for as long as it takes!”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]
Microsoft digs deeper into their pit of delusion.
Microsoft: is there no beginning to their talent?
=:~)
Awesome…….
From now on bing and decide. http://www.bing.com
Giving away concert tickets to have people come to their grand opening?
Just put an ad in the paper and tell people the first 1,000 people to stand in line get $50 each.
Geez, if this goes any further, Microshaft will have to give away new Apple products to get people to attend their grand openings.
Yawn. [Crickets chirping]
I hear the loud screeches of chimps with this “big day”
Come on Ballmer 4 REAL? SERIOUSLY?
Yeah, this was in the local news out here. The only thing going for them is there is no open space near the Apple store in that mall.
What is harder to accept than this is the fact that nobody is posting recent pics of the two current MS Stores.
Surely somebody that visits MDN must live in the same region. Or did MS actually find locations that Mac is not?
@Chas-
Their talent runs the gamut from “a” to “b”.
(/parphrase of Dorothy Parker)
I live Phoenix, AZ. I heard a radio ad for Microsoft Store in Scottsdale Arizona.
The ad was simply saying.. it is easy to buy a new PC and setup etc… Anyway, it was very lame.
Am I the only one who thinks bing is kind of cool? I still you google though.
When will apple come out with their own search engine?
not you google but use it.
third retail store????
do they already have two??? that’s surprising, looks like no body pays attentions to microsoft stores.
Bing is actually not a bad search engine. Apple has no plans to offer its own search engine. Steve Jobs said it himself at the D8 conference. In iOS4, Bing will be available in the search field along with Giggle and Yahoo!
That’s just great.
Colorado get’s all the fools. First balloon boy — now a Microsoft store. We’re gonna’ be the laughing stock of the nation.
Stephen Colbert is gonna give us hell.
Looks like a library but with hideous blue walls.
Since it’ll be nice and quiet, I wouldn’t mind bringing in something to read and chill out. Put in an in-store cafe, let people sit down with drinks and surf the web or use the PCs for free for however long they want, and MS may have something there.
Hey, it is a big deal! When is the last time that Apple increased their retail presence by 50%?
Oh, momma… I can’t wait to get out to Denver to get over to the new Microsoft store… I’ve been dying to get in there and check out that cool new… Ummmm… Uhhhhh… Errrrrr… Wait a second…
Never mind.
Well if you are tired of the long lines in the Apple store, I think the Microsoft store looks like a great place to get away from people and have some quiet time.
@ malpaso_man
> Apple has no plans to offer its own search engine. Steve Jobs said it himself at the D8 conference. I
Steve Jobs also said video on an iPod was a bad idea, until it wasn’t. Apple was not interested in making tablets, when Apple was working on a tablet even before iPhone. Kindle was a niche product because “American no longer read,” until iPads had iBooks as a key feature. He implied he did not want third-party native apps on iPhone, while Apple was obviously hard at work on the iPhone OS SDK (for third-party developers) and the App Store. He keeps calling Apple TV a “hobby,” but it will probably be Apple’s “next big thing” once they have all the pieces in place.
In other words, what Steve Jobs says publicly is not always what he believes. He is great at misdirection (like a magician or expert chess player), to gain advantage over the competition. I think this “search” comment is a great example. Apple is probably very interested in search, but will approach it from a completely difference angle.
You guys!! Give the mugs a break !! It only makes Apple look good. It took me a while to wise up and get mac. They will get fed up with thier pc’s going kaput !
This is good news….
The more stores they open, the more money they will toss down the drain, the more stores they will have to close.
Seriously? Retail war?
I switched a few weeks ago from Google homepage and search to Bing. Put Wikipedia in the Safari search window via Glims. I never thought I’d do it, but I’ve just had enough of Google’s asshole attitude. I don’t miss them one bit.
On another note, the Safari upgrade is working well; not seeing the darn beach ball as much as I was. Seems quicker too.
The air is too think in Denver. They’re delirious.