Microsoft Retail Store - 10/22/09

Thursday, October 22, 2009... The day Microsoft released their brand new retail store. Now I'm sure many of you have heard about this already, or seen short videos on it; but I have decided to let those of you who haven't heard. Well, Microsoft's retail store is currently located in two locations at the moment, Scottsdale, Arizona and Viejo, California. They are planning on making more locations in the future. The store contains Windows 7 products, Microsoft Mobile Phones, Zune Media Players, Xbox 360 and 'cloud' email and storage services for consumers. The store also includes a 'answer bar' were you can ask anyone of the Microsoft Retail Workers your questions and they will answer them. Another cool feature about this store is that the workers are dressed in different colored shirts based upon what product they are working with, i.e. Green for Xbox, Red for Zune, Blue for Windows 7 and so on so forth. On the opening date the stores were crowded with folks eager to find out what Microsoft has done.

In my own opinion, Microsoft has done an excellent job with the store and setting up different stations with different products for customers to review. I'm sure this will help them a lot. The store is very spacious. The former real estate chief for Apple (George Blankenship) was hired to consult on location and placement of the stores. As everyone eagerly rushed into the store to try out and look at all the Microsoft products, staff was very proud to say, "this is the new Microsoft Retail Store"

Mac vs PC: The Fanboys

Almost everything has "fanboys" or worshipping fans and in this case, Macs and PCs. We all know about the huge Mac vs PC battle and the Windows vs Snow (Leopard). Each side has fanboys, some of the most obnoxious, hard headed, illiterate fanboys are available in the category. We all have our opinions on this subject and you can leave some comments down below, but what I want is video responses to the embedded video. I am fine with comments, but video responses are much better. I absolutely positively hate fanboys! I am a Apple fan and a Microsoft fan. I have Windows 7 and I have Snow Leopard, although I do use Snow Leopard as the main OS. Both companies are the best of the best. So, please leave your opinions (biased or non-biased) 

Why kill the Classic?

As many of you know Apple's September 9th event is tomorrow and will probably feature some refinements to Apple TV and the iMac's. One known fact is that they will update the iPod lineup to a more sexy lineup of music listening devices. The iPod touch rumored to have a camera, and the nano with more abilities and memory as well. But what about the Classic? Rumors have it that Apple will "kill" the Classic and move away from one of the original iPod designs since 2001 when they were first released. I say, " Don't kill the Classic" because 

1. It will start moving the defintion of iPod's to a more mobile device with more features like an iPhone rather than it's original intention of music.

2. It's the Classic, it was the first iPod ever built and it will make the old fashion mac or apple fanboy's upset that Apple will move away from the revolutionary product that it is.

3. What is wrong with the Classic? It has the capacity to hold 30,000 songs and 150 hours of video, which is nearly four times the capacity of the 32 gig iPod Touch.

So here's my point, for all you iPod users and new iPod users, if you love music and love watching movies and TV shows, why would you get rid of the one product that does that the best?

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She's Back...

Did you happen to miss Lauren, the lovely woman who started the whole laptop hunter phenomenon?  Well, it just so happens she's back with another commercial. 

Does anyone else find it amusing that Microsoft, and I guess now HP, are trying to hide the fact that she's an actress?  Oh well, enjoy.

Three New Apple Stores Open for Business

Over the weekend, three new Apple stores have arisen worldwide:

1. Hamburg, Germany

2. Dedham, Massachusetts

3. Frisco, Texas

This will be Apple's second store in Germany, also there will be a total of nine stores now in Massachusetts, and lastly this will be a whopping 6th Apple store in the Dallas/Fort Worth area alone. So, if you live in any of these places, check em out. So I ask, "Microsoft, you guys better hurry up on them stores!" 

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