“At the risk of incurring a label of Windows Hater or Microsoft Basher.... WTH are they thinking?!”
It’s called wanting to sell their product in their own shop. Employing Americans and contributing to the economy.
Yeah, those damn fool bastards!
Let me guess, we should all hate the idea because it’s from Microsoft, right?
Of course not. But they can’t exactly build a great customer satisfaction foundation by not changing their products or tech support and instead putting themselves into shopping malls. I guess I just don’t get it.
And we can’t hate the idea because it’s from Microsoft; it’s not. It’s from Apple!
Maybe I can clarify his question for you..
Microsoft does not sell computers they sell software. The apple store and its support works because they sell you the hardware, on top of that they control all the hardware.
MS will have to support any old configuration that comes in off the street unless they want to get into saying that 99% of the people who want to come in for support cant get it because of a third party nic.
Can MS make this work? sure but their strong point is *not* customer support nor any kind of universal hardware set. This is a potentially a bad idea because its MS trying to force their round peg of a business model (albeit a successful round peg) into a square hole of a market.
Sounds familiar, like the Walmart haters. Free enterprise, contribute to the economy and all that, except if I personally hate the company. If it employs americans go for it.