Microsoft to open first flagship Store beyond North America All the fun and excitement of Microsoft's wan clone of Apple Stores will soon be available beyond the United States for the first time, after the company announced it will open its first offshore store in Sydney, Australia. Microsoft's billing the store as a flagship not just for Australia but “a center piece of the Microsoft …
@ largefile Microsoft hating? Are you kidding? This place is full of Microsoft Fannbois. Its practically Redomond Love In. Try being an Apple fan here. Seriously, you guys can dish it out, but never can you take it.
Microsoft is moving forward alright, into the places Apple AND Android have been for years.
Get back to us when Apple have a server offering that's not worth pointing and laughing at.
And a means of managing *enterprise* PCs, not the dozen or so in the Marketing dept and the execs' iPads. Sorry, but it's tricky to do serious number-crunching (with the usual tools used by businesses) on cute little tablets and phones.
Hate Microsoft - why should we? They're a bit annoying, but in fact always good for a laugh. And it's pretty amazing that they can sell 15 year old technology as novelty on the market.
The thing is: we are not using Microsoft. Because we need to get our work done.
/Zane
You have to be new here, or you just haven't been paying attention... the only thing that The Reg's hack team "hates" is self-importance and bullshit. Marketing efforts, no matter who they stem from, fit both categories. (And you haven't been reading the Apple articles if you think that this article constitutes 'hatred'; the well-deserved derision that's regularly poured on Apple's ludicrous, hyperbolic claims makes this article look like a gentle ribbing)
I continue to read The Reg precisely because it's the only one where every fanboy commenters accuse it of being biased against their pet manufacturer. Nobody writing for this site is suckling on Google's or Apple's or Microsoft's or FSF's teat.
My observation of an Apple store that right across the mall from a Microsoft one was quite informative. The Microsoft store ALWAYS had more store personnel than customers, so I suppose you would get "personal service". The Apple store on the other hand had a long line out the door waiting to get in, and gobs of people inside looking (and buying as I observed) at product. I couldn't say as much for the Microsoft Store which was also trying to lasso customers in the mall proper (they were demoing a Kinnect[sp?] thing).
All of this reinforced the fact that having AAPL stock is a "good thing".
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When I was in Las Vegas last year I discovered that there was a Microsoft Store in the Fashion Show Mall. When I walked past it didn't look particularly busy (unlike most of the other shops), but it did appear to have at least one customer in there who looked like they were actually buying something. As stated above by Herby, there were a few Kinnect demo thingies dotted about in the mall to try and entice in more customers.
I've always wondered what they sold in there (Xboxen, mice, retail OS?), but due to various pressures (aching feet, full belly, tired missus) I didn't venture in. Though in fairness the same excuses kept me out of the Apple Store too.
As a quick aside, trying to find a non-Apple smartphone cover on The Strip (or the big mall just South) was near impossible. The missus had a new Moto X and was on the lookout for accessories.
From what I have observed of Tech companies' retail efforts in my own local mall, Samsung, Sony and most recently Huawei have all set up shop at various times with smiling young people staffing the place to demo the various goodies.
They are always polite and friendly and have a passing knowledge of the capabilities of the items in stock.
The issue seems to be that the items are priced at retail + 20% or so, and no-one is stupid enough to fall for that, so sales are slow (or non existent) and they close down soon enough.
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