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New Microsoft Store opened in my town. (Yeah, just in time for my Christmas shopping!) - JPK - 11-05-2010
In what looks to be an Apple store with I Microsoft logo instead, Microsoft opened a dedicated store in the Oak Brook Mall yesterday.
I don't get it?
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/oakbrook/news/2866228,oak-brook-microsoft-110410-s1.article
JPK
Re: New Microsoft Store opened in my town. (Yeah, just in time for my Christmas shopping!) - graylocks - 11-05-2010
so, when the first Apple stores opened did they have to have celebrities and giveaways on hand to get 'hundreds' of people to wait in line?
Re: New Microsoft Store opened in my town. (Yeah, just in time for my Christmas shopping!) - pqrst - 11-05-2010
graylocks wrote:
so, when the first Apple stores opened did they have to have celebrities and giveaways on hand to get 'hundreds' of people to wait in line?
I was at the Glendale Galleria when the Apple store opened (I think it was the first retail one) and it definitely was an event! Crowded, line to get in, local government people. I wouldn't say that it was a celebrity magnet (it was 2001) and if I recall the ipod hadn't been released yet or was very new.
Re: New Microsoft Store opened in my town. (Yeah, just in time for my Christmas shopping!) - freeradical - 11-05-2010
Can you get a copy of Windows there?
Re: New Microsoft Store opened in my town. (Yeah, just in time for my Christmas shopping!) - kj4btkljv - 11-05-2010
Bah, the whole store is probably just filled with actors.
http://gadgetcrave.com/microsoft-laptop-hunter-ads-caused-legal-complaints-by-apple/1146/
Jeff
Re: New Microsoft Store opened in my town. (Yeah, just in time for my Christmas shopping!) - graylocks - 11-05-2010
pqrst wrote:
I was at the Glendale Galleria when the Apple store opened (I think it was the first retail one) and it definitely was an event! Crowded, line to get in, local government people. I wouldn't say that it was a celebrity magnet (it was 2001) and if I recall the ipod hadn't been released yet or was very new.
oh, i have no doubt it was an event. i just wondered if Apple had to
Re: New Microsoft Store opened in my town. (Yeah, just in time for my Christmas shopping!) - pRICE cUBE - 11-05-2010
Re: New Microsoft Store opened in my town. (Yeah, just in time for my Christmas shopping!) - Panopticon - 11-05-2010
Don't look now, but your town also may soon be blessed with:
- Nuclear Waste Site
- Super-Max Prison
Good things happen in threes :thumbsup:
Re: New Microsoft Store opened in my town. (Yeah, just in time for my Christmas shopping!) - jdc - 11-06-2010
everyone in line was in IT trolling for more "customers"
and the MS executives wore suits, go figure.