Please tell me it’s just across the hall from an Apple Store! All Apple would need is a Justin Long look-a-like spouting off pithy comments at anyone going into the Microsoft Store then to give everyone the look and feel of a Mac vs. PC commercial in real life.

Is that two iMacs on the middle foreground table? Is this to provide a reference comparison (probably with the OS goofed up on purpose)? They don’t seem to have keyboards or mouse.

How many different PCs do they have on display, and how many of them are in stock so you can buy one on the spot? Either they are going to disappoint customers by being unable to deliver computers they are displaying, or they are taking on an inventory control problem much bigger than Apple’s.

On another note, count the ways they’re openly mimicking the Apple store: employees in colored T-shirts and name tags on lanyards, decor (floors, walls, tables), layout. It just screams “Me too!”

Wow. So many people waiting in line to talk to a “guru” to troubleshoot their PC’s.

The line outside the store is probably from M$ putting out a casting call and the poor people think they are going to be in another ‘reality’ commercial and get a free computer.

Those “gurus” are going to suffer and customers are going to be disappointed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=rqRWYHGxpPc

Do the numbers:  If there are 10 times as many PCs than Macs, then the line-up should be 10 times longer than for a Mac Store for it to be just as successful.

The line up was for those supposed gift bags worth $500. As it turns out they had Chapstick and other crap in them and nothing worth more than 50 cents.
LOL