[edcoil]

Actually it is an excellent idea and years past when I recommended to do this. The corner the business market, they next release of Windows, now in beta is excellent and blows Vista and XP away.

These stores will provide local support and people will be able to use them in the malls and have help for problems.

They are following the Apple business model and this, for the next 3-5 years based on all the notebooks and desktops and laptops will be very successful.

[lainie]

It’s just that it’s a little late, isn’t it?

[AFreeBird]

I want to get a job at one. I’ll slip DVD copies of Linux into every box & bag. :-))

[TheBattman]

So - are they going to have a Genius errr... Intellectual Bar where people can bring their hardware and get it fixed and/or fixed under warranty? I seriously doubt it - because MS sells very little hardware themselves (game system, input devices, and....some goofy named media player named after some cult-hit movie...oh, wait... That was Dune... sorry.

Anyway - the point is - they couldn't possibly keep up with every Tom, Dick, and Bill brining in various pieces of their PC's to have the Geni...errr... Intellectual fix their problem.

Still no original thought out of MS.

[Richard Kimball]

Just curious. I've been hearing good buzz about Windows 7. Do you think that Vista was lipstick on a pig that was put out because the next actual version of Windows was behind schedule?

Vista was late as an XP replacement, and this is early as a Vista replacement. I figured out, to my sorrow, that ME was simply lipstick on 95 while they developed the actual next operating system, XP.