LOL!!! at fivis: “Replicating winning concepts was the original Microsoft success.” If the retail locations repeat the software OS experience, it will be a poor man’s imitation, then I guess.   As an aside, I hope MS will at least attempt to improve upon the customer experience. Last time I was at Apple (3-4 weeks ago in Kansas City), though the interior was cool and hip and I had gadgets to play with, I was ready to buy a Mac immediately and yet had to wait OVER 40 minutes to be waited on, despite chasing people down asking for help. Buyer failure at its worst, even for a fangirl. fivis: A slide from a leaked PowerPoint presentation regarding the interior design of the forthcoming Microsoft retail locations. You’ve seen a polished wooden table with products laid out like this before, I’m sure. I don’t blame them. Replicating winning concepts was the original Microsoft success. The problem here is, of course, they’ll never be able to make the store’s architecture mimic whatever design motif/era the company is working with, since they don’t make the computers themselves. Duh. I’m a firm believer that seeing metal and glass laptops lined up in a metal and glass building is a subconscious happy-upper when entering an Apple Store.

LOL!!! at fivis: “Replicating winning concepts was the original Microsoft success.” If the retail locations repeat the software OS experience, it will be a poor man’s imitation, then I guess.  

As an aside, I hope MS will at least attempt to improve upon the customer experience. Last time I was at Apple (3-4 weeks ago in Kansas City), though the interior was cool and hip and I had gadgets to play with, I was ready to buy a Mac immediately and yet had to wait OVER 40 minutes to be waited on, despite chasing people down asking for help. Buyer failure at its worst, even for a fangirl.

fivis:

A slide from a leaked PowerPoint presentation regarding the interior design of the forthcoming Microsoft retail locations. You’ve seen a polished wooden table with products laid out like this before, I’m sure.

I don’t blame them. Replicating winning concepts was the original Microsoft success.

The problem here is, of course, they’ll never be able to make the store’s architecture mimic whatever design motif/era the company is working with, since they don’t make the computers themselves. Duh.

I’m a firm believer that seeing metal and glass laptops lined up in a metal and glass building is a subconscious happy-upper when entering an Apple Store.