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That would be truly amazing.]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
Fixed.]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
Maybe like a "C- must try harder next time".]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
I am sorry, but that is totally wrong. ]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
I see the windows store being a much more fancy and advanced best buy.... IE not many stripped down and cheap computers to sell to the walmart crowd. MS will make sure everything in that store will work well (similar to how apple runs their brand but ms wont make the hardware)]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
@ aaron:

Do you *seriously* think that OLED is going to sway buyers? Seriously???

"Welcome to Best Buy."

"I need a music player."

"We have the iPod touch and the ZuneHD. The iPod has a camera and tens of thousands of apps and games available. The ZuneHD has...an OLED screen and a Tegra Processor."

"??? I'll take the iPod."

The pocket device war has already been won, people. And Microsoft weren't the winners this time. Deal with it.]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
the processor isn't going to sell anyone though]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
Well that certainly rules you out, Paul.]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
Well that certainly rules you out, Paul."

Dont forget, these guys run around from post to post screaming "apple hater" at everyone. So make sure you point them at this page the next time they launch into that.]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
It's not and either/or question, its a matter of balance. Getting the most for your dollar.]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
Apple fanatics engage in consistency? you're kidding, right?]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
""Paul, nowhere in this article does it mention Windows, the 360, Zune, etc. You have a fit everytime somebody brings up an issue not directly mentioned in the article, so why is it OK for you to do it? Oh, that is right, it is not hypocrisy when you do it."

Apple fanatics engage in consistency? you're kidding, right?"

And yet again the Apple hate squad spins things to their advantage. Paul only brings that up when one of your fellow Apple hate squad members mentions that another of your bretheren mentioned Apple in a non Apple story. Then when Paul responds to that, your buddies cry that Apple fanboys are mentioning Apple in a non Apple story.

Look_Around_You fails again]]>Jul 28th 2009 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
You know the ZuneHD hasn't come out yet. You don't know how many apps there's gonna be. Plus, tegra is going to make the ZuneHD a lot smoother than many other devices, as the chip was made for high graphics in mobile appliances. OLED is also wasting less batteries, its more vibrant and the colour is absolutely brilliant (look at Sony's OLED tv.). Plus, ZuneHD has radio, music, video, (very likely) games, and possibly apps. It also has a browser, (might) have the ability to share songs, and all that kinda stuff. And plus, the radio, you can see what song's playing and download it.

...

Anyways, I guess I'll have to wait for MS stores to come to Canada. In the meantime, I'm stuck with Apple, EB Games, and Sony Style.]]>Jul 28th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
Everything Microsoft sells can be bought in almost any store... Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Staples, OfficeMax, etc. Best Buy has a huge XBox section, a huge software section, and a huge supply of Windows computers.

In contrast, a trip to the Apple store lets you see every single product that Apple sells... talk to Apple employees... get warranty service (Genius Bar)... and see a plethora of Apple accessories and software. Apple stores made sense years ago, because no one sold Macs, except for CompUSA. Best Buy sells some Mac stuff now, but in far fewer quantities... so it still makes sense to have their own retail presence. They still get crazy traffic.

]]>Jul 28th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
Look Around, NoHone I'm looking at you. ]]>Jul 28th 2009 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/

Just ignore him. ]]>Jul 28th 2009 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Paul, I would present you with the facts by example where you attack others claiming they bring up off topic information, just as you have done here, but to do that I would need to search, and then you would call me a stalker. But I can give you the facts that this article did not mention Windows, Zune, XBOX, surface, nor iPod, by listing every word of the article, and comparing it to those keywords (duplicates have been removed for brevity):"

Did you even look at the picture? It has "Windows 7" all over it. And what else could Microsoft show in their store except for Windows, Zune, XBOX or Surface?]]>Jul 28th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
Fall is less than 2 months away, and the season is only 3 months long. It takes well over a year to find locations and sign leases, make final design decisions (since they haven't made these yet), do interior and exterior renovations (after having blueprints developed and going through the local municipal approval process and obtaining construction licenses), then furnishings need to be purchased and installed, systems need to be set up and tested, staff needs to be hired and trained, and then advertising and PR prior to store openings.

This cannot be done in 2-5 months. This is a huge amount of bovine excrement being shovelled by Microsoft. ;-)]]>Jul 28th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
@jon, the problem with that is if you do not reply, then he will jump up and down yelling that he is right because people will not have a discussion with him to refute his points, and therefore he is correct. I gave up trying to have discussions with him many times, but then he starts flinging his crap - usually at some body who made an innocent comment that tangentally touched on Apple, and he goes on the warpath with his attacks.

@patriks: Mice, keyboards, web cams, games (desktop and XBOX), gaming devices (desktop and XBOX), books, Office, development tools (C++/VB/C#), Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design, gift cards (Zune and XBOX), Streets and Trips, WinMo, Tablet, online properties (dozens of them), One Care, UMPC, then on the server side Exchange, Win Server, SQL, business software such as dynamics. And on, and on, and on, and... Those are just a few Microsoft products other than Windows. But what is the defense of him talking about the iPod?]]>Jul 28th 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/> "This makes me think that maybe Microsoft wants to open a store so people get better service. If that's the plan, it might actually work."

So you're assuming that the Microsoft store will sell computers. I'm sure that they will be HP and Sony machines. If they only sell one or two models... maybe they will provide support for them. But Microsoft is a software company! Is Microsoft gonna replace a burned out motherboard on an HP laptop? And why???

That's when the "support" argument loses steam. Sure they might fix certain computers that they sell in their store... but that's so far out of reach for a software company.

Microsoft makes what... $50 on a Windows license from HP ? Why is Microsoft gonna spend their time an effort to fix a laptop?]]>Jul 28th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
So, let him. Who cares?

No one, besides other iTards, listens to him.
He doesn't post anywhere he can't stir something up.

It will take a few days, maybe a week, for him to yell himself out.
If everyone ignores him, he has two options; go troll somewhere else, or keep spamming garbage until he gets banned.



I don't even know why I'm writing this, I think some people like the fact that he and his ilk are here.
]]>Jul 28th 2009 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/@Quix

Do you think the general public knows what 3G (as in iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS) is? No so they are likely to feel the same way about terga and OLED, that they are some wonderful technology that makes the device extra special. They're just buzz words like Dual Core, 1080p, and refresh rate. People don't give a fuck they just know it sounds special and interesting ]]>Jul 28th 2009 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
Shut up! Enough already! Just stop!

Thanks,
Just about everyone

Plus, engadget, Scottsdale is really high end. Makes sense to put a high end boutique there. Probably in the Biltmore fashion park which is across the street from the Ritz-Carlton. ]]>Jul 28th 2009 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 28th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/Jul 29th 2009 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
If you look closer in that first pic, you can see it's actually the GURU BAR.

lmfao!!!!!!

On a side note, I do actually think this is the right move for M$]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/microsoft-confirms-leaked-retail-store-plans-are-legit/
I agree that it's not a bad move--but I really hope they don't call it the Guru Bar. They'd have been better off with "Smartie Pub"!]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:10PM