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Oct 19, 09 - 02:11 pm Comment from: theloniousMac

Why do Apple and MS like hiring silly performers ?

Oct 19, 09 - 02:12 pm Comment from: Macintosher

Hahahahahahahaha! What pathetic losers the MS dunces are!

Typical Microsoft: Over-explain/Under-deliver

Oct 19, 09 - 02:24 pm Comment from: Mac Daddy

Sounds about as lame as the Vista parties they're pushing.

Have the lines started yet?

Oct 19, 09 - 02:28 pm Comment from: ElderNorm

Hey,
Free concert tickets and a free autograph. I would go. get the tickets, leave. and go to the concert.

Just a thought.
en

What a bunch of idiots, Apple didn't have their store openings during the week around 6pm for nothing. It's called free advertising through the news media. Saturday at 10am? Most of the news media is gone for the weekend, duh

Oct 19, 09 - 02:33 pm Comment from: HMCIV

"I give them two years before they're turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake," says Goldstein.

Oct 19, 09 - 02:33 pm Comment from: John E

look guys, if the MS store has free and good tech support it will be a big hit. really.

because of course:

- you really really need tech support for Windows!
- Best Buy and all the rest rip you off to get it now.

but being able to play with computers and get free help will certainly be popular. it won't "fail".

unless of course, if MS "monetizes" the tech support ...

Oct 19, 09 - 02:34 pm Comment from: Big Als MBP

I guess that failed Microsoft store in San Francisco doesn't count.

Oct 19, 09 - 02:38 pm Comment from: thethirdshoe

Concert of what?

Doomed to fail!

1st 1000 customers will be given a kick in the groin and a poke in the eye.
2nd 1000 customers will be given a free Windows 7 (Basic) box.
3rd 1000 customers will be given two free Windows boxes.

Oct 19, 09 - 02:50 pm Comment from: Spark

I can't imagine an "ElderNorm" wanting to go to a Pop superstar Ashley Tisdale concert.

Oct 19, 09 - 02:58 pm Comment from: The Other Steve

"it's a good thing that physical newspapers are dying"

Not so good for MDN, as that's where they get many of the stories for their web site that allows them to sell ads.

It cost a lot more to actually produce stories than to just smirk at them.

Who's Ashley Tisdale?

Both people in line will be really glad that the got a t-shirt.

Hope those gurus get issued kevlar

Oct 19, 09 - 03:10 pm Comment from: Road Warrior

Any Mac users going to the store and asking

-"Why don't you have any of those computers that run both operating systems?"

Oct 19, 09 - 03:14 pm Comment from: Anonymous©

I was expecting the Rutles

Oooh, and with no pictures circulating anywhere - it looks like the world will be wowed in good Apple style when they make their final surprise of the store's reveal - can't wait for it! So exciting! NOT!

Oct 19, 09 - 03:21 pm Comment from: chabig

Microsoft's overuse of the word "experience" makes me shiver every time I hear it.

Oct 19, 09 - 03:42 pm Comment from: Ottawa Mark

Figures. Some fad-of-the-moment teenybopper fave for the concert as opposed to a songwriting artist or band who actually know how to play instruments. Maybe she can write with Songsmith, though?

Oct 19, 09 - 03:46 pm Comment from: Jubei

@Anonymous©

The Ruttles rules!

Oct 19, 09 - 03:48 pm Comment from: Demon

I don't think I've ever seen an Apple Grand Opening Ad in the News Paper or one TV.

All Prices of goods and Services in the Microsoft is Priced in Microsoft Points. (Current Microsoft Point to US Dollar exchange rate is 80 point = $1.00. Microsoft Points are only sold in blocks of 100 points)

Microsoft Store will be an epic fail = Zune "as in a pile of hot fresh oozing Zune"

The Dweeb Bar* will need to charge Windows User Losers it screws over with bad help and incorrect advise just to pay for the space rental fees. If you have a Microsoft Support Contract already they'll be charging an in person fee.

Please insert your Credit Card in the Dweeb Bar Payment slot and accept the 899 points/min fee** to the card before continuing.

* Dweeb Bar assistance is not guaranteed. Custom excepts all liability for using advise or help provided by the Dweeb Bar Dweeb.
** minimum fees apply.
(Minimum fees are for 10 dweeb Min. @ 899 points/min = 8990 points + State & Local Sales Taxes + 50% dweeb gratuity + 35% Ballmer Hair Plug Fundraising Fee + 15% Biohazard clean-up recovery fee (for cleaning up dweeb spittle***) + a 13.5% Windows Vista Development cost recovery fee + 9.32% Bing Traffic offset fee + 7.1% Surplus Zune HD disposal fee + 5.8% Xbox 360 RRD replacement/repair program cost recovery fee + 4.99% Cash to Microsoft Points conversion fee)
*** Microsoft Dweeb Spittle Shields are available for rental or purchase at an additional cost.

3000 visitors? a little optimistic aren't we

Gifts to the first 1000 visitors??? wow, they are prepare for at least 10 years giving gifts to the visitors.

My fiend used to work in Tijuana for a crappy bar begging the people to came in to the bar, now microsoft has hired him because his expertise will be very useful to Microsoft stores.

Demon,

Oct 19, 09 - 04:27 pm Comment from: iSteve

Next week is going to be great, Windows 7 and a Microsoft store! I just hope I can get some work done rather than giggling all week.

Oct 19, 09 - 05:03 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

I'll be there on Thursday taking pictures.
:D

Any chance we can get people to turn up, take bags and then leave straight away. Record video and put on youtube. That or turn up for the gig and ask all the staff who Ashley is? Prepare good questions hehe.

Oct 19, 09 - 05:09 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

I'd still love to see that gorgeous Apple Store in Scottsdale.
The pictures of it always make me tingle all over. Why can't Arizona be closer to Ohio? Why, why, why!

Oct 19, 09 - 05:15 pm Comment from: MacSmiley

I may be mistaken, but didn't Apple stage a FREE concert at its first big grand openings?

@Ray
Actually they got their play from the Repugnicans: If you repeat it often enough people will believe it's true. Especially if it's total BS.

Your $0.02 is very lacking. Take your political BS go back to your Windows trailer. You guys had your chance for way too many years and we're still trying to crawl out from under the outright lies, not to mention the awful mess you left.

Oct 19, 09 - 06:02 pm Comment from: Big Als MBP

Ashley Tisdale is the blonde High School Musical alumnus who was last seen kissing Miley Cyrus onstage.

For what it's worth.

Bwahahaha! Ashley Tisdale?

Oct 19, 09 - 09:23 pm Comment from: Greg L

A Microsoft Store!?! I’m soooo super-happy to hear this news!

The thousand free bags contain mega quantities of Tylenol 3 to dull the pain of the participants as they realize that they have been had once more by that all consuming M$.

Please... there must be someone in Scottsdale with a Flip. Post a few seconds to YouTube. Seriously! Go into the store and show "the rest of us®" how life is meant to be.

I love how Microsoft realizes nobody would stand in line for the grand opening unless they were basically paid to, so they're desperately trying to bribe people into showing up using a thousand free gift bags and Ashley Tisdale concert tickets.

It's amazing how they can still go ahead with their retail store plan when between this and their whole "it's only a showcase, we don't expect to sell things!" angle, it's clear that even they expect it to fail.

I guess Ballmer's hobby is to collect bottomless money-sucking pits?

Uh, it's not the world's first Microsoft store... There's was a Microsoft store at the Metreon in San Francisco 10 years ago.

No one will be there. Everyone will be with me down the road.

Come on- did anyone predict an Apple store would be a winner? Let's face it, shopping for a PC these days is painful in most retail environments, so MS has to open stores to show off their tech (which the majority of the country and world use) and to force their partners into developing better products and better customer experiences. If you haven't played with a new Zune, you'd be in for a treat. And ince win 7 mobile launches, there will be some amazing phones to check out. All of this with lower prices that what you'd see on Apple products. It's a smart play, but also risky.