M$ Turns to Begging on the Streets at Robert Pogson

“The temporary outlets will be open only during the holiday season, and are not permanent locations like the two-dozen brick-and-mortar Microsoft retail stores already in operation.”

see Microsoft to open 'pop-up' stores Oct. 26, battle Apple at most locations | ITworld.

How the mighty are fallen. Unable to get slaves to push enough product, M$ has become homeless, wandering the streets, begging for business.

How many of us would

do business with transients?
do business with someone who would not be “there” for a customer?
go into a strange store when all the usual ones are right where they have been for years?
buy an untried product in all of the above situations?

Not many? I thought so. This is just the dying dinosaur thrashing around trying to avoid evolution. They and their products can rot as far as I am concerned. The world can and does make its own software, GNU/Linux. There’s no longer any need for M$.

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My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.

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1 dougman Oct 6th, 2012 at 12:45 pm

Hmmmm, if I had more time, I would gladly rent a space either adjacent or outside the M$ offering, with the signage saying “No MORE Malware” or some other three worded title tossing mud at M$.

I am sure a few of the LUG members would be in on it.
2 Chris Weig Oct 7th, 2012 at 12:35 am

Has the welding overloaded your brain, Pogson? These temporary stores are apparently specifically set up for selling the Surface tablet. They also are located within malls.

Begging on the streets? This is not Linux, for which the appropriate location would be the local trailer park. Or that seedy backalley place where you lie in your own vomit after having partied too hard with too cheap booze.
3 dougman Oct 7th, 2012 at 10:32 am

Yes M$ IS begging these days, trying oh so hard to be like Apple, but many of the reasons people flock to Apple is due to Windows failings. Placing lipstick on the PIG will not install confidence.

You don’t see Windows being used in vehicles do you? Heavens no and for good reason!

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2012/09/linux-foundation-announces-automotive-grade-linux-workgroup

http://automotive.linuxfoundation.org/

I guess the negative outcome from this, would be M$ trying to sue various manufacturers. LOL….

Software is simply no longer developed in isolation. No one, not even Apple or Microsoft, can afford not to take advantage of open, collaborative development. And, companies just arriving to the software business – companies like Toyota and Nissan, for example – aren’t about to start from scratch. They’re using the world’s largest code base from which to accelerate innovation in a fiercely competitive technology market.

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/158-jim-zemlin/646032-attention-ceos-you-are-in-the-software-business-now-what