http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft Store opens to Scottsdale campers (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
This takes the cake! ]]>Oct 22nd 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
Thank you for some insight.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
All I saw was a grand opening for a store that was hugely hyped and so people came out to see the festivities. Seemed like a good time actually.

Kudos to Microsoft for the ability to sell themselves and their store like an Apple store, seriously. It's not an easy feat to garner that kind of attention.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/1st video: holy CRAP that line was long. i thought it ended a couple times, but it just jumped to the other side of the isle.
2nd: the cheering is a kinda excessive.
3rd: that line/tunnel thing the employees did reminds me of what they after little kids soccer games where i live (the parents make a tunnel and the kids run through and everyone cheers). between the jumping/screaming employees, the cheering crowed, and all the high-fiving, i'm definitely creeped out. i can see waiting in line a bit, but this is absurd. it's a store, people. you go there to give a company your money in exchange for a good.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
I don't really like the logo of the store.... why divert from the original logo that is easily recognizable and found in the OS. The new logo made me think of a tiling and flooring store...]]>Oct 22nd 2009 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
I've walked past Apple launch events and the picts of this seem the same. Its not the same type of energy. Its a freaking OS for god sake.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
]]>Oct 22nd 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/sounds like you may be weirder than the guys in the video if you've been to a few of these and grand opening nerd lines are your idea of a good time. Especially considering they were star wars movies. I mean to me that's as or more weird as the Apple Store

but whatever floats your boat dude :)
we're all a little weird

By the way TOTAL copy of the Apple Store. We get it Microsoft, you got your braces off and you're starting to dress in form fitting university clothes like Mac. Your coming into your own, you can compete in the awkwardly funny commercials department. Now back it up some serious software or you'll be out of the cool kids club faster than you can say "but iphone has no multitasking!!!!"]]>Oct 22nd 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/



Great news for MS investors. Another MONEY LOSING venture from MS
has arrived.




]]>Oct 22nd 2009 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
So this is what the start of a brainwashed cult looks like. What are they gonna call themselves? Ballmer's Beloved? Maybe the Microtards. Does the company of Microsoft even have a collective conscience when they copy something like a store opening so blatantly from a competitor? Didn't somebody in Microsoft stand up and say, "Jeez, we already copied everything else we have from Apple, do we have to do this, too." I'm telling ya, the colored T-shirts is going way too far to copy. I guess it's true that Microsoft had all those employees sit down and watch a dozen Apple Retail Store openings and told them "Do it exactly like you see in the videos to capture the Apple experience." What the hell is next? Get Ballmer a face like Steve Jobs because Ballmer will never get his body like Steve's. Frickin' Apple copycats.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
I was seriously hoping that Microsoft would at least TRY and not make it look like they are blatantly imitating Apple. Guess I was wrong, should have known better, it is MIcrosoft after all.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 23rd 2009 12:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
Gizmodo got it right when they added a EDIT button!]]>Oct 22nd 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/]]>Oct 22nd 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
EXACTLY LIKE THE APPLE STORE.

Holey Crap !! .talk about Redmond turning on it's copiers !!!

An if this entry, is grayed out, the fact still remains the same !!]]>Oct 22nd 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
If I were nitpicking I'd have to say they didn't get the lighting right, and the brown tables are quite revolting. While the video screens are quite cool, they can be quite distracting.

PS. Ha... fat Microsoft guru. ]]>Oct 22nd 2009 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
Ma, I just had the most wonderful experience in my life. I got clapped into a Microsoft Retail Store, got a free T-shirt that says Windows 7 Sheeple and was able to meet Reverend Steve Ballmer, kiss his ring and actually hold a Windows 7 Retail DVD box. I'm a Windows convert for life.

Johnny, enough of your foolishness, get dressed and ready to go to work. You're already 40 years old.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
I be damned!]]>Oct 22nd 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
Dunno, but if my friends and family are any indication, I hope their tech support staff is large --- I wonder how long the wait time is. I mean 90% of installed OS base will mean a hell of a lot of folks.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
Another Apple fanboy talking point dispelled.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/Oct 22nd 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
-Sent from my iPhone]]>Oct 22nd 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/
What I wonder is what I'd buy there? I guess Xbox stuff? It's not like Microsoft is selling computers. I go to the Apple Store for higher quality accessories than say Target or Best Buy. Additionally, the Apple Store offers help on their own hardware.

So my question is what are they selling? I'd actually like to see Microsoft succeed. We need serious competition amongst similar products. It drives quality and innovation.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/microsoft-store-opens-to-scottsdale-campers-video/And I've been wasting my time trying to pull myself out of my geekdom.
BACK WE GO!!]]>Oct 22nd 2009 1:33PM