First two Microsoft stores pretty close to Apple counterparts

Microsoft has never come up with an original idea. They are like 'Apple Bizarro World'.
Windows is a bad copy of Mac OS ?
Zune is a bad copy of the iPod
zune HD is a bad copy of the iPod Touch
Bing is a copy of Google, Apple doesn't have a search engine.

OK, HERE ARE CONFIRMED PICTURES OF THE LOCATION OF THE COMING MICROSOFT STORE IN MISSION VIEJO!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41013317@N06/3773802240/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41013317@N06/3772996257/

I went to the mall offices and talked to a pretty young lady who said "Yesterday I couldn't tell you but, TODAY I can. YES, the Microsoft store WILL be in the old LIMITED location!"

I'll post more pictures if I can get inside later on.

The nearest apple store is 9 miles away, I guess MS isn't ready for direct competition and will be taking one of the dozen of empty spaces over on the east end of the mall, and not at the Chalder or Biltmore. MS store, I say fiile under: why bother

Being a man from Arizona, I can't believe they put a store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall 0_o Seriously, this blows my mind; what were they thinking exactly? "Hey, let's put our new store in an old run down mall that is currently in talks to be destroyed and replaced with a resort, it will surely thrive!" *sigh*

I on the Board of an OC(Orange County) Mac User Group. We're planning on visiting the new MV MS Store with our MacBook Pros in hand(Apple logo facing out) running Windows XP and ask for some Help!!

Let's see what they do!!(toss us out?)

I don't know which store you're visiting but I have never seen the scenario you describe. Never.

I've seen it a lot at Best Buy, but never in an Apple store.

Where were you shopping?

I can picture the store now........

As you walk into the store you'll be greeted by someone dressed as a large paperclip who asks if you need any help. You'll promptly dodge around him, while all the time resisting the urge to knife him.

Then you'll be confronted by the extremely large Vista bargain offer bin, which also doubles as the Vista recycling bin.

Once round that you'll see the 70ft long 5 shelf rack on the left wall that just about holds the umpteen different versions of their latest OS.

On the facing wall you'll see the 70ft long 5 shelf rack that holds all the books (eg. Windows for Dummies), that tell you how to use the afore mentioned OS.

At the far end, behind the cash desk, you'll see another 70ft long 5 shelf rack that holds all the anti virus software.

:-)

Just wondering......when's Bill Gates going in for 'his' liver transplant?!?!?

I'm not sure exactly what it is about this Microsoft Store thing, but when I think about it I just laugh.

Maybe they are going to sublease the space to Dell, HP and other PC hardware manufacturers like a flea market. Also, they could have a very small closet size area for Zunes. It would be just large enough for the 2 people who actually bought them.
Or, they may carry computers branded for Microsoft called 'MS Cherry', it goes along with 'Bing' and not virgin, The laptop Cherries will be carved out of one solid piece of aircraft quality spruce which has been treated to resist termites and viruses. Their desktop models will be an all in one design called an 'iPee C'. They will have to change their advertisements because their products will be sold in a high fashion mall. Will PC customers be cool enough to buy something in a MS store?

With Microsoft's scattergun approach to new products and ideas I give them a few years, really not sure what they are trying to do apart from earn the exec's wages by coming up with new ideas.

Yes Microsoft can sell lots of stuff but Apple stores are busy as it is a good poser place to go and you can use the machines. How are Dell going to feel if they stock HP.

And for the love of god why do you feel the need to advertise a product that is installed by default on nearly every machine and in every workplace.