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Welcome to the Microsoft Store!

Section42LSection42L
edited 2014-11-20 12:36:48 in General
Not a hoax, not a dream, not a shitpost!

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  • Obā-sanObā-san

    at the MOA there is a microsoft store directly across from the apple store and it's kinda surreal because the microsoft store looks SO MUCH LIKE AN APPLE STORE except it has the windows logo
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    I just fixed my post to show the image of the one opening at the Toronto Eaton Centre, and I just have to say...

    I know, right?
  • Obā-sanObā-san

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  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I can just feel the bad vibes going back and forth
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    It's still weird to me to see an obvious variation on the Windows logo used for Microsoft as a whole.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    does some windowshopping
    /me does some windowshopping
  • AnonusAnonus
    edited 2014-11-20 14:36:44
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Central Avenue said:

    It's still weird to me to see an obvious variation on the Windows logo used for Microsoft as a whole.

    would it be like seeing the Swirling Star used as Cartoon Network's logo (in the days when they actually ran Hanna-Barbera cartoons of course)
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Anonus said:

    Central Avenue said:

    It's still weird to me to see an obvious variation on the Windows logo used for Microsoft as a whole.

    would it be like seeing the Swirling Star used as Cartoon Network's logo (in the days when they actually ran Hanna-Barbera cartoons of course)
    I guess?
  • TreTre
    edited 2014-11-21 06:08:49
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    I made a Vine about an MS store a while ago, specifically the Lenox Square location down in Atlanta.



    The one I visited was nice, if uncannily derivative. A friend and I played Jetpack Joyride on the Windows side of a Windows/Kinect display they put up just outside of the store.
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    ^ Same
  • Section42LSection42L
    edited 2014-11-25 12:36:46
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Update: I went back to the store when I was in the area today. While looking around, I noticed that most of the laptops in the store are blatant ripoffs of Apple's design aesthetic.

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    It kinda weirds me out, TBH.
  • PatchAwfulPatchAwful
    The Mysterious Ballerina and her Tree Stump Ghosts
    Its like I've woken up in a very subtle parallel universe
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    I am somewhat disturbed on a fundamental level. 
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I do wonder why Microsoft decided to be Fake Apple when being Stuffy Corporate Microsoft worked so well for them for so long
  • WallmanWallman
    Next one coming up!
    *steals the Acer laptop and replaces it with a Macbook running Windows 8*
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2014-11-27 00:03:10
    I want a laptop that has a 15"+ swivel touchscreen and an accelerometer
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I want a laptop that works like a damn laptop and not a tablet

    I already have two perfectly good tablets if that's what I wanted to use
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Central Avenue said:

    I do wonder why Microsoft decided to be Fake Apple when being Stuffy Corporate Microsoft worked so well for them for so long

    because Apple is cooler
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    honestly i really like my tabletop and i'd get a surface 2 if i had the money
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    objective fact: the surface looks better than any apple laptop
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    It took me a moment to get that "tabletop" in that sentence was a portmanteau of "tablet" and "laptop" and not "table-top" like a roleplaying game
  • TreTre
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    naney said:

    objective fact: the surface looks better than any apple laptop

    i guess that makes me one of the fanboys Engadget commenters loathe so much
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    I actually don't really like the look of most Apple laptops. I feel like their colour feels faded pretty much as soon as you take it out of the context of an Apple store. 

    I like the sleeker darker colours that feel more like metal than like plastic on my laptops. 
  • PatchAwfulPatchAwful
    The Mysterious Ballerina and her Tree Stump Ghosts
    Yeah, I never really understood Apple's insistence on making things that seem like they need to be cleaned every hour to keep them looking presentable.

    I guess they've gotten a bit better for that recently, but still.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    The worst were those iPods and early iPhones that had the shiny metal back that was a magnet for scratches and fingerprints.

    It's like they were trying to force you to get a tacky case for them.

    (Incidentally, I am amused by the fact that people put their elegantly-designed iThings in tacky plastic cases.)
  • Obā-sanObā-san
    edited 2014-11-27 11:27:51

    man people FREAK THE FUCK OUT when they see that my iPhone aint in a case

    like i've had random strangers come up to me and ask me about it
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    That's kind of hilarious.
  • TreTre
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    because it's an iPhone, and those crack like eggshells if you're not careful
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I've seen a bizarre number of people with cracked-up phone screens, and usually they're iPhones

    Like, I don't even know how that happens; I've dropped my Galaxy S III plenty of times and the screen's just fine
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    iunno what the fuck people be doing with their phones that makes them break into a gajillion pieces

    floor hockey?

    squash?

    do they use it as a door stop?
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    I drop my phone in its case literally a dozen times per month.

    If a phone can't be dropped intentionally as a show of power and wealth, then I don't know why you'd buy it. 
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    i will say the back edges of the phone are all dinged up but i like that, it gives the thing a cozy, worn in feel
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Yarrun XIX said:

    I drop my phone in its case literally a dozen times per month.


    If a phone can't be dropped intentionally as a show of power and wealth, then I don't know why you'd buy it. 
    i just finished rewatching a series where one of the characters would do something like this just to show how disgustingly rich he is

    character's name is Melt, son of Borge, of the house of Fereydun

    series name is The Tower of Druaga

    you should watch it; it's freakin' hilarious
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Central Avenue said:

    The worst were those iPods and early iPhones that had the shiny metal back that was a magnet for scratches and fingerprints.


    It's like they were trying to force you to get a tacky case for them.

    (Incidentally, I am amused by the fact that people put their elegantly-designed iThings in tacky plastic cases.)
    i'm amused by all the cases that have giant holes on the back so that you can see that it's an Apple Product
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    I don't understand how Apple has maintained its image as being an alternative brand despite the fact that it is as big as it is.

    Like, talk to me when you're running a computer you built yourself out of spare toaster parts that can only use Haiku OS
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    My iPad case has a logohole like that. Normally I find those tacky but I got it cheap at Big Lots so I can't complain.

    Also, it's made for a slightly later model so it has a hole for a nonexistent camera.
  • PatchAwfulPatchAwful
    The Mysterious Ballerina and her Tree Stump Ghosts
    I have a terrible case for my phone that looks like an old cassette, so it has holes where a cassette would have them.

    Luckily they're in the wrong place so nobody knows it isn't an iPhone
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    if the Apple Store is the dragon's lair (or the robotic dragon's lair)

    what, then, is the Microsoft Store?
  • PatchAwfulPatchAwful
    The Mysterious Ballerina and her Tree Stump Ghosts
    Your old boss's bad ripoff of a dragon's lair?

  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    As a dragon I can say that the Apple Store's notion of what a "dragon's lair" is is way off the mark
  • PatchAwfulPatchAwful
    The Mysterious Ballerina and her Tree Stump Ghosts
    They've updated the traditional design of the dragon's lair to better appeal to the modern consumer
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Welcome to iLair

    Please log in with your Apple ID
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    My HTC One has lived its entire life in an intentionally naff-colored Otter Box case, so it's still in relatively good shape. I just wish the speakers weren't blown. :P
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