Microsoft's new retail hiring policy: shop at Apple

This is capatalism. If apple wants to keep their people, they will treat them better and pay them more. We may be apple fan boys but we still gotta make a living. Working at the apple store is still just a job. Those of you who think that looking for talent in a competitor, then paying them more is some how dishonest are obviously lucky enough to have not ever been underpaid or underappreciated at a job.

Panties in a bunch? Whose panties are in a bunch?

Not the author (the article was not a tirade, did you actually read it?), so I am guessing they must be your panties. And I am further guessing that you get your panties in a bunch every single time you misinterpret an article as being pro-Apple, and you can't wait to get on here and pillory anyone who fails to hate the Big Fruit as much as you do.

For the record, Apple BOUGHT the entire chip company, along with all the employees. They did not try to entice some of the employees to switch employers with inducements. You can see, right, how that is a completely different situation? It is not hypocrisy when the situations are different.

So, criticism of author - fail. Criticism of Apple - fail. If you ever are going to try again, please PLEASE do some research and some thinking before you post.

If you want to hire the best, hire Apple Store employees.

This seems like more than just changing jobs, from best buy to (rip) CIRCUIT CITY. Apple is a lifestyle-windows sucks unknown organisms. those that do jump ship, good riddance.

MS can only be opening stores because it feels threatened by Apple's presence in the mall and the street. MS doesn't really have a lot of its own hardware to sell -- XBox, keyboards, mice...

What happens when MS reports heavy losses in its stores, and is forced to shut them down?

Right now, my instinct tells me to feel sorry for any Apple employee who is enticed away by $$$$ signs, because if they're made redundant by MS, and they re-apply to Apple submitting a CV which shows previous employment, methinks Apple recruiters are more likely to file the application in the Trash than offer interviews.

Any Apple employees reading this? Does Apple do Exit Interviews for staff who choose to leave the company?

This is so funny. Microsoft emulating the underdog for about 30 years now. It's like Picasso's 'great artists steal' conundrum. At least, it's a riddle to me,because I feel originality is much more important in making me feel 'good' than success.

I'm not sure that MS realizes what a can of worms they're opening here. As stated by at least one other commenter previously, Apple has a fairly unified product line to support, with basically 6 computer lines and 5 portable lines to sell and support.

Having worked at the Best Buy tech bench (well before it was taken over by the Geek Squad), I am quite familiar with the nightmare that comes with selling and supporting Windows PCs. To be perfectly honest, this might be the worst thing that MS could ever do. As it is, if someone buys a HP laptop at Best Buy and is mislead about its capabilities (not intentionally, mind you, but because the sales staff has to learn the specs of a dozen new PCs every few weeks), that's not Microsoft's fault, they get to blame it on Best Buy. Likewise, if there is a problem with the hardware or the software, and they bring it in to Best Buy, and the experience is less than stellar -- they have to pay to have it fixed, or the fix requires reinstalling Windows, for example -- that's not Microsoft's fault in their eyes, that's Best Buy screwing them over.

With the Microsoft store, MS is guaranteed that every bit of buyer's remorse and consumer frustration that happens under their roof will be associated with the Microsoft name, and every bit of the resultant anger will be leveled at Microsoft directly. It will no longer be "Best Buy sucks, I'm buying my next PC straight from Dell", it'll be "Microsoft sucks, I'm switching to Apple."

"Hey Genius we want you."
https://careers.microsoft.com/careers/EN/US/CollegeHome.aspx

Microsoft finally shopping at Apple Big Time!!

Again... this is a fact that Microsoft is all about quantity and not quality. Really sad...