Microsoft retail store opening in AZ copies freely from Apple Stores

as you all know i havent had an original thought in 30 odd years but have enough cash on hand to support this sham. btw: i love my mac book pro ... yes i'm a closet user. visit my stores ..... pleeeeeze ... i so wanna play with the real kids!

Dli,
you forget that Apple ripped off of microsoft
in a unforgivable way, that most take for granted. Apple
completly copied off of microsofts "context menu" concept,
Along with Windows in general, safari is in a window, there is a sound
when mac starts up, alike to windows, and for both "Firefox" and "Safari",
bookmarks, and options, address and Back and Forward are on the top.
These were all innovations made by MS and have been forgoten.

Regardless, MS although copied some of apple's Ideas,
probaly had an idea of improving the and I think all who've seen it would
agree the MS store is much cooler then the apple store, with Microsoft surface
and an overbloated budget they've made a futuristic store, where there are TOUCH TABLES and EVEN MORE HELPERS THEN APPLE!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve Ballmer was seen recently in designer blue jeans and a black long-sleeve crewneck, muttering ironically to himself: "great, fantastic, wonderful, unbelievable, terrific, really great...."

Microsoft stores are like Mercedes dealerships selling only Kias. They will not make enough money to pay for the costs. Apple's sales per squarefoot dwarf all other retailers. Including luxury retailers.

So the Microsoft stores will be a further enlargement of the Black Hole of Redmond. That mysterious quadrant somewhere in Seattle that sucks in billions upon billions of shareholders' money.

Really, as little as I know, I still know that unless you're an integrated hardware and software company targeting the higher end of the consumer market, you can't make "do whatever Apple does" your corporate strategy.

I'll say it again: MSFT shareholder, why is Steve Ballmer still the CEO of Microsoft?

Apple leads, Microsoft copies! It's pretty much been that way! Xerox gave Apple their inventions like the mouse and the graphic interface, Microsoft "copied" it, Apple came out with OSX, Microsoft copied it with XP and Vista! My girlfriends daughter confiquared her desktop so it looked like my Mac. Now it's Windows 7. It's got a lot of features my Apple has had for years! Now we got the Microsoft store! But Microsoft doesn't make computer's do they? This is going to be interesting!

So a site (TUAW) that is a carbon copy of another, earlier site (MacRumors) is not happy the way one store copies another?

Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot.

Imitation is the purest form of flattery

holy crap!!! this looks like an apple store....from the white walls, clean lines, splashes of color from the products, the way they display the mac books(i really did type mac books and then realized that they aren't mac books)...

i wonder if apple has their store layout trademarked? if so, look out MS!

but seriously, what's the purpose of the store? is it to confuse people into to thinking they are having an apple experience while purchasing a piece of crap? maybe!

If I'm not mistaken, MS hired the same guy that designed the layouts for the Apple store - son in essence, he is just bringing over his original design concepts and building on them.

That being said, I'm ordering my 27" iMac tonight, but I'll bootcamp it,

I wonder if Apple has trademarked the 'dress' of their stores... 'cuz I smell a lawsuit brewing. The facts here are just so incredibly similar to Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana.