If you haven’t heard about the upcoming Microsoft Stores, go boil some water.
Microsoft is going to open retail stores. After they stock a shelf with floor models of Office, Money, Windows, and a Zune, what then? Pet food? Plumbing? Rare and Vintage auto parts (Nobody beats our price on original Volkswagen Beetle radiator caps)?
Apple has several models of desktop and laptop computers, Cinema Displays and iMacs, iPhones, iPod Touches, parts and accessories for all the above, and then some software. Apple can sell its own stuff without acknowledging the existence of any third party.
Microsoft’s products must (MUST) ride out the door like a remora on other products. Only the Zune is a standalone product, and it could suck Obama’s ears flat.
People in key positions include design and brand consultants whose major claims to fame include Borders, Dairy Queen, Intuit, and Keebler. The big boss of the effort is a cartoon company executive.
Here’s the cool part: the store is going to be pure Microsoft – gaudy, glitzy hypertech. It will combine the subtle charm of a side show barker with the understated allegory of Hairspray.
I hope they put one near me, right after there’s an Apple store.
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I just saw something that worries me – there’s a post by Jim Cramer out there that apparently talks about Apple. Y’know the sound a latex balloon makes when you allow it to deflate quickly after blowing it up? That’s what Jim Cramer sounds like to me whenever he talks. Maybe that doesn’t capture it. Kind of a cross between the sound of a wet fart and a toilet flushing when it gets all the way to the bottom.
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The iPhone is in China.
Every executive at Nokia has new pinch marks on the seat of his leather office chair.
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Apple Tablet.
There. I said it.
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Another old favorite. The video is killer, and the song never got enough radio time.
Got me new Intel Mac, come here and you’re talking about Micro$oft and then Phil Collins.
Which is the least painful way of suicide?
I don’t know about original radiator caps, but you can find some cool stuff for Volkswagen Beetles without even leaving this very server. Be sure to check out the Gallery and tip your waitstaff!
(Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated in any way with Peg Leg Metalwerks except that it’s my best friend’s business, I built the site for him and I host it. Plus, I think he’s a freakin’ genius. But aside from that… No affiliation at all. Believe me! After years of successful, continually growing online sales, NOTHING but a “Dude, thanks for everything. Business is boomin’. I’m gonna start paying you for this next year.” That was three years ago. Then the next year, “Dude, I’ve shipped a few to Europe and Australia. I just did a licensing deal with the dude in Australia. His friends all want one but it’s too expensive to ship them down under. So he’s building my stuff himself and paying me a royalty on the design.” Last year, “Dude, can you take my site down for a few months. Seriously, I can’t keep up with the orders. I’m exhausted.” Still not a damn dime. So screw him. The site’s staying up forever and I’m gonna promote the hell out of it. I’m thinking about adding his home phone number to it.
What were we talking about again? I might have gotten side-tracked.)
Guns jam
Ropes give
Gas stinks
Might as well live
Hey, maybe they’ll show Windows running in BootCamp! I remember a review awhile back showing it ran faster on a MacBook Pro than on comparably priced models from Dell/HP.
I have Parallels that I got as part of a bundle. I still haven’t been motivated to use it. One of these days.
In answer to Nxxx; Vista is a painful road to suicide, Win 7 is less so but Phil Collins is like taking a chainsaw to your toes, then stepping onto a salt mound to slowly remove every other limb! (He he with a bit of luck Rip might rip me a new arsehole)