“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.
I kinda like Bing too, I am just stunned Microsoft may have created something that doesn’t suck the tar outta the kitchen linoleum.
I was on my bong using bing, or was it the other way around? Puff.
I look forward to buying something at The Apple Store at the Park Meadows Mall, having them bag it up, and then walking into to the Microsoft Store with a huge smile on my face knowing I have products in hand from a superior company.
Might be a good place to use wifi. Look at all those chairs! Apple Stores have no chairs except those round rubber balls for the kids, and the stools at the Genius Bar and One-on-One tables.
@MDmac
“Surely somebody that visits MDN must live in the same region. Or did MS actually find locations that Mac is not?”
I walk by the MS store in the Shops At Mission Viejo usually once a week. It’s down the mall from the Apple store, near the food court.
This past week I had to go to the Apple store three times. Every time it was packed with customers, sales people, geniuses, and trainers. The place is always humming with activity.
The MS store, is filled with MS sales people standing around in blue, yellow, and red shirts looking forlorn with nothing to do. Seriously, I’m not making this up. About 4 or 5 customers usually, teens mostly, playing games on the 3D television.
it’s been a while since i’ve seen so many blue screens of death all at the same time.
Apple should develop a few deliberately bad products and swear the future rests in those markets just to see if Microthought will follow them down the primrose path.
I swear looking at that picture I have no idea how those people can honestly look themselves in the mirror with a straight face. Have they no shame?
My son and I did hang out in the MS store once, waiting for them to figure out what was wrong with the 3D tv. (they never did)
He took a pic of my, the caption is priceless.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4529607&id=656417412
Corrected article title,
“Microsoft opens turd retail store today in Denver”
And today the Motley Fools have taken a strong short position on AAPL. They predict AAPL will go low, possibly to $199. I know that has nothing to do with MS store, but this article is also from the Motley Fools.
Three stores! Impressive.
When will this Company Stop Shooting itself in the Foot ?
“Its not the Store but the Products You Morons”
Go back to what u are Known For.
(Make Software That someone might wanna use) Because Apple have Already Left u in the Dust and u Ain’t gonna Catch em again.
(All Together Now)
“Its not the Store but the Products”
A Microsoft store… still, after all this time, sounds like a complete waste of everyone’s time
Looks like it doubles as a library.
If Ms wants a long line in front of their store, they should offer free PC tune-up (aka virus removal), where PC guru(?) will clean install an appropriate version of Windows.
Someone should get two video cameras and film the stores whilst they’re open at the same time. My bet is that the M$ will be empty whilst the Apple store will be packed to the brim.
Concert Tickets is SMART.
If they handed out free Windows Mobile phones there would be NO line.
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A few weeks ago I was in San Francisco staying in a hotel near the Stockton Apple Store. It was jammed packed every day. Didn’t have a chance to try any of the gizmos.
@Davewrite
You stole my thunder…
I was wondering why Microsoft didn’t offer for free any one of its magnificent products such as X-Box 360, Zune or Windows Phone and how many customers would such an offering attract?
Of course it is a great day for area Colorado Line Dancers…
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The one in Mission Viejo, CA mall looked just like the picture at the top of the page when we went by on saturday. (On our way to the Apple Store, just down from the MS store)There were literally more employees in the store than customers. Then most of the customers were small children watching T.V. in the corner.
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Am I the only one who picked up on this: Microsoft is giving away tickets for a venue that has to do with Disney….
Please remind me who we know as the biggest single shareholder in Disney?
I think I just BSOD’d a little in my mouth…
@ken1w
“Microsoft digs deeper into their pit of delusion.”
Don’t you mean the pit of despair?
Hmmm… Microsoft… sounds like an apt description of a small limp penis.
Microsoft certainly is a glutton for punishment. They just HAVE to push forward with their LOSS LEADER enterprises if only to quell the ticked off throngs of shareholders.
Also: This month the MS produced “RETURN of the SON of FUD” is extremely evident in the press. If you can’t beat them, LIE about them!
It’s like the start of Duck Hunting Season. Got my gun cleaned, got my shells, ready to BLAST some TROLLS! YeeeeHaaaa!
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they’ll do great if they sold copier machines…(ouch)
Colorado is a state and a rather large and rugged one at that it’s where I live, Denver is a city in this state that has many suburban areas, Colorado the state doesn’t have suburban areas Jim, you dumb ass frigtard.
Do they still dance?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/microsoft-store-employees-break-out-in-dance-video/
“opening a new front in its well-publicized retail war with Apple”
A secret war.
That Apple doesn’t know about.
Where one side has three stores all in the US.
And the other has 283, with 62 outside of the US.
I know the figures for Windows vs. OS X, but let’s face it; in retail, Apple is a hyper-power (like the US, but without the debt) and Microsoft is like The Vatican (but with fewer people wearing silly hats).