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Microsoft opens first flagship store: Vibrant space showcases best in innovation
Microsoft News Center ^ | Oct 25, 2015 | Vanessa Ho

Posted on 10/26/2015 8:08:38 PM PDT by dayglored

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And for what it's worth, there's an excellent article on this same topic over here with a lot more technical and interesting info and not as much marketing hype, but sadly, we're not allowed to post articles from Ars Technica on FR.
1 posted on 10/26/2015 8:08:39 PM PDT by dayglored
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To: dayglored; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; Alas Babylon!; amigatec; ...
Microsoft opens a great new store in New York City ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

2 posted on 10/26/2015 8:09:48 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored
All about the new Microsoft Store on Fifth Avenue, NYC

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/locations/ny/new-york/fifth-avenue-/store-1087

(Note: Maybe it's just me, but the storefront with the Microsoft logo flying up in a framework of glass looks an awful lot like an Apple store. Just sayin'... Well, at least they don't have the GLEAM* homosexual rainbow flag alongside the logo.)

(*) GLEAM: Gay and Lesbian Employees At Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/trending/enterprise/microsoft-canada-pride

3 posted on 10/26/2015 8:17:53 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored
From the Microsoft Gay Pride Page:
Did you know….

4 posted on 10/26/2015 8:24:21 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored
Maybe it's just me, but the storefront with the Microsoft logo flying up in a framework of glass looks an awful lot like an Apple store.

Just like Microsoft to copy everything Apple does, just extremely late to the party. No originality whatsoever! Every Microsoft store I've seen is practically empty of customers; what a joke.

5 posted on 10/26/2015 8:24:57 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: dayglored
I know, I know, this thread is about the new store, not GLEAM.

So that's the end of the hijack.

"It's My Thread And I'll Hijack If I Want To" -- apologies to Leslie Gore

6 posted on 10/26/2015 8:27:15 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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> Every Microsoft store I've seen is practically empty of customers...

That's been a perennial problem for Microsoft's stores. They just don't have the cachet that Apple has.

But this new approach hopes to turn that around and make Microsoft "cool" enough to attract customers, especially young ones.

7 posted on 10/26/2015 8:29:17 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Much like their sexual desires, they have their fag flag pointed in the wrong direction. The Hoist goes to the Left and the Fly to the right.

Stupid Homos!


8 posted on 10/26/2015 8:29:26 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town
> they have their fag flag pointed in the wrong direction. The Hoist goes to the Left and the Fly to the right.

Maybe it's a subtle hint that they all lean to the Left....

9 posted on 10/26/2015 8:31:57 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Subtle? They are self described out gays. Nothing subtle about that!


10 posted on 10/26/2015 8:35:36 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: dayglored

Apple and Microsoft stores are too far away for me but if I ever had my choice I would go in the Microsoft store. I would like to check out the Halolens.


11 posted on 10/26/2015 8:38:54 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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> Apple and Microsoft stores are too far away for me but if I ever had my choice I would go in the Microsoft store. I would like to check out the Halolens.

Yeah, I'm in the same position, centrally isolated in upstate NY, many hours of driving away from any of the big tech stores.

But I would also like to visit a Microsoft store, and play around with the Surface Book. If that line is still around when my Fujitsu Lifebook gives up the ghost, I may well opt for a Surface Book.

Windows 10 and all. The more I work with the production release of Win10 the more I get to like it. The damn UI still has too much Metro in it, but other than that I'm liking it.

12 posted on 10/26/2015 8:42:33 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored
Spam.

Why post this here on a conservative political forum? Trying to confuse potential contributors as to what this site is about?

Not like there is a lacking of "tech" sites for those so inclined. Too much clutter here to begin with for this crap.

Please do not try to compete with the rainbow fruit crowd, they piss of enough people.

13 posted on 10/26/2015 8:48:26 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: dayglored

I’m in the middle between San Francisco and Portland. Both places I try to avoid. Small town guy.


14 posted on 10/26/2015 8:53:00 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: doorgunner69
> Spam. Why post this here on a conservative political forum? Trying to confuse potential contributors as to what this site is about? Not like there is a lacking of "tech" sites for those so inclined. Too much clutter here to begin with for this crap. Please do not try to compete with the rainbow fruit crowd, they piss of enough people.

I acknowledge your comment and point of view.

FreeRepublic has large areas of interest that are not political -- science and astronomy, motorcycles, dogs and cats, a huge variety of hobbies, sports, etc. -- and FReepers enjoy being able to get info and news, and converse about these non-political topics in a reasonably polite, conservative atmosphere with others sharing those interests.

A great number of FReepers are technically inclined with regard to their computers, and a majority use Windows and other Microsoft products.

The Windows Ping List that I run has over 100 FReepers who like to hear about Windows and Microsoft news.

This list (and I) are not "competing" with anyone. We are interested in things having to do with Windows and Microsoft, that's all. So I respectfully disagree that this is "spam". It's on-topic for the Windows Ping List. You're of course entitled to see it another way.

15 posted on 10/26/2015 8:58:09 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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> Please do not try to compete with the rainbow fruit crowd

OBTW, the reason for my comment #4 above about GLEAM was that I made a somewhat obscure reference in comment #3 to Microsoft having flown the gay rainbow flag over its building, and thought it would be useful to give the reference, for the folks who didn't know about it and might question it.

16 posted on 10/26/2015 9:05:13 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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Spam, eh? Tell me do you pop into all of the Apple posts and feed them the same gripe or is it just Microsoft posts you show up to bitch about? I have seen many posts that I personally have no interest in but don’t feel the need to drop in and bitch about it. If you’re not interested just don’t get involved is what I say, admittedly after involving myself.


17 posted on 10/26/2015 9:38:23 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: roadcat

Huh? Surface and surface book have Apple copying Microsoft.


18 posted on 10/26/2015 9:57:56 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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Just like Microsoft to copy everything Apple does, just extremely late to the party.

Exactly.

Ugh, that GLEAM sh*t is unbelievably BARF-worthy!

19 posted on 10/26/2015 9:58:40 PM PDT by nutmeg (www.freetobelieve.com)
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To: Mastador1; doorgunner69
> Spam, eh? Tell me do you pop into all of the Apple posts and feed them the same gripe or is it just Microsoft posts you show up to bitch about?

I'll jump in uninvited and stand up for doorgunner69 -- I seem to recall him commenting on Apple threads as well, and I have no reason to believe he's anti-Microsoft as such. I think he's concerned about proliferation of threads on "non-core" topics on FreeRepublic (where "core" topics are presumably the ones listed at the top of the pages: Prayer SCOTUS ProLife BangList Aliens StatesRights ConventionOfStates WOT HomosexualAgenda GlobalWarming Corruption Taxes Congress Fraud MediaBias GovtAbuse Tyranny Obama ObamaCare Elections Polls Trump Carson Cruz OPSEC Benghazi InfoSec BigBrother IRS Scandals TalkRadio TeaParty and so forth).

I could be mistaken, of course; if I've read his concern wrong, I hope he'll correct me.

20 posted on 10/26/2015 10:02:39 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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