10 ways Microsoft's retail stores will differ from Apple's

Macworld ^ | 02/13/2009 | by Brennon Slattery

[Swordmaker]

How will the proposed Microsoft Store differ from Apple's stores? PING!

Computer Humor Ping!

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[Spktyr]

ROFLMAO!

The best part is that they hired a guy from WALMART to design their stores! God, think of how *that* atmosphere will suck - Walmart + Microsoft..... oy.

[bzybee]

11. All employees will be required to wear glasses
which will give the illusion of brains this is especially important for the ESL employees.

[smokingfrog]

Funny!

[GOP Poet]

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[dayglored]

> 11. All employees will be required to wear glasses which will give the illusion of brains this is especially important for the ESL employees.

12. If you are in the store on the second Tuesday of a month, you will be informed that you must stop and change your clothing to new items supplied by the store. Sometimes the new clothes fit, sometimes not. After you change clothes, the store goes dark for a few minutes, and when the lights come back on, all the items in your shopping cart have disappeared, and some are no longer available on the shelves where you had found them earlier. You accept this behavior as being "better than happening at random without warning". However, sometimes it still happens without warning.

[6SJ7]

6. Stores will be named Microsoft Live Retail Store with PC Services for Digital Lifestyle Enthusiasts.

Cute!

[new cruelty]

N. There will be no browsers allowed within the store. Only Explorers.

[SlowBoat407]

Stores will look vaguely like Apple stores, but contain 10 times as many employees and half the merchandise, and be more difficult to navigate. To remove any item from a shelf you must first throw it in the trash.

[Tribune7]

That’s a pretty good list. It hits too close to home to be called humor. I’d put it in the harsh reality irony category.

[new cruelty]

N. At any given moment, the store will announce upgrades on various products and then close. During that time, customers will be asked to leave and then come back in.

[big'ol_freeper]

Oh my.

As Rush always says, in order for humor to be effective it must have an element of truth.

THAT is FUNNY!!

[ZEO90]

lol. nice pic.

[uglybiker]

When you go to leave, somebody stands in the doorway and asks: “Are you sure?”

[antiRepublicrat]

11. You have to buy an XBox Live membership before you can interact with other customers or staff.

[grey_whiskers]

Gotta love that *Patch Tuesday*.

13. They will have a grocery aisle featuring "new, innovative" milk products from China, supplemented by snack foods, such as peanut butter, from the United States.

There will be random, sudden announcements of "Food Service" Packs, which will inexplicably change the labels on the foods in this aisle. Microsoft will also proudly announce that all new labels are "backward compatible" with all flavors of their earlier foods going back to World War II K-rations.

Cheers!

[Vinnie]

I recently tried to get my DiL’s PC up and running.

Forgotten how frustrating they can be. Scandisk, defrag, virus scan, regclean, and on and on.

A year with my Mac and I’ve gotten so used to turning it on and using it.

[SunkenCiv]

[politicket]

11. The Microsoft store will be 900% larger that the Apple store - representing the difference in market share.