Best Buy + Windows Guru = Apple Store experience?

[kpac]

For all you Vista haters....

As part of Windows Vista's $300 million marketing rehab, Microsoft Corp. will hire an initial wave of 155 "Windows Gurus" to walk around Best Buy and Circuit City stores, answer customer questions and defend Vista's reputation against skeptics....

Link

[Aegis]

155?

That should be enough for one store...

[Dead_reckon]

Maybe two stores.. Microsoft is going downhill in a snowball, but that bears the question; WHAT IF Microsoft fell bankrupt and closed? What would we do? Hope Steve Job buys them out and kills us all with proprietary machines and a proprietary OS? Be forced to play Quake 4 into eternity on a gaudy white LCD monitor that is also a desktop which also generates more heat than my baseboard heater? If this is the future of computing, I want no part of it.

I hope some Linux distro picks up the ability to properly run .exe's soon, I'm growing tired of Microsoft's constant facade of superiority over everything else. The same goes with Mac's trying the same thing with there stupid commercials insulting vista as the PC, the PC as a whole unit is better than ANY Macintosh out there, or Apple, or whatever fruit they want to name it after. A Macintosh is a type of apple, so they went from a Apple, to a Macintosh, big f****** deal. I don't care if they call an Apple a Grapefruit, Pineapple, Spinach, or Tomato. I won't buy one unless its dirt cheap and fast enough for Photoshop and Garage Band, and to be used as a guest computer. Even then, the most use it would see is Photoshop and so I can save a few gigs of space on my Windows machine. Oh, the ONLY thing I can say I like about any Mac is Garage Band. At least as a guest computer I wouldn't have to worry about Pr0n viruses, though I'd still kill anyone looking at Pr0n on any of my systems, even if it was a Mac.

[kpac]

Maybe two stores.. Microsoft is going downhill in a snowball, but that bears the question; WHAT IF Microsoft fell bankrupt and closed? What would we do? Hope Steve Job buys them out and kills us all with proprietary machines and a proprietary OS? Be forced to play Quake 4 into eternity on a gaudy white LCD monitor that is also a desktop which also generates more heat than my baseboard heater? If this is the future of computing, I want no part of it.

The way things are going at the moment, this could be a BIG possibility...

[Dead_reckon]

Which, is why I'm hoping for an open source OS soon... I'd actually pay for games if they where properly priced and ran on a stable open source OS.

[kpac]

Linux, FreeBSD?

[Dead_reckon]

Something along the lines of linux, something that runs all my games. They need to make a directx linux variant that'll run in place of DirectX. I do NOT want to emulate another operating system just to play games, then I might as well be running vista with the RAM I'd be eating with the operating systems. I believe that soon, there will be such a free distro, which, will pull the rug out from under Microsoft and Mac. I bet by the time I'm fifty, Macintosh won't be much of anything.

[Broni]

Microsoft is going downhill in a snowball

Source?

[patio]

You say you want open source options...that's exactly what Linux is.
I'm confused.

Oh that's right ...you need gaming.  (Windows).

[Aegis]

OK, let's do some math.    If you'll agree with me that Microsoft started in 1975, it's in its thirty-third year, which already isn't a bad run for any company.  If you are 19, DR, then by the time you're fifty, Microsoft will have been around for about sixty-four years, which isn't a bad run at all for a couple of guys who wrote software "on the fly" for an Altair computer.

[GX1_Man]

And in addition, this wonderful gaming software should be free for our young friend.  I guess he forgot to mention this.

Dead Reckon is well known by the oldsters on the forum. A grandiose kid who types like a sailor and exemplifies the "it's all about me" syndrome.

Here's the bottom line DR. If you want to play Windows games you will need to use Windows. Guess what any kind of emulator emulates that will let you do this? (Hint: Windows). Windows is not, nor will ever be, open source.

And as for the PII with 128 meg of RAM running XP "without a hitch" on an 8 gig drive - better check your nose, Pinnochio. And I think we told you about the grammer checker and spell checker previously, didn't we?

The thing though that troubles me most is that you can vote. Have a nice life, and do try to cut down on the expletives before the Admin bans you. 

Your pal,

GX1_Man

[computeruler]

well i just hope microsoft never dies i agree with DR when he says about using a white moniter thats also a comp! EW how can you mod that! how would i game without windows!!!!!!! also a linux that supports exes would be very very nice (without wine or something) i would even buy something like that on topic here only 155? thats all? micrsoft must really be going downhill of thats all they can afford

[Aegis]

micrsoft must really be going downhill of thats all they can afford

Nah, it has more to do, I'm almost sure, with test-marketing...they'll try it out at locations across the country, and expand it depending upon initial responses.

I once went to Best Buy intending to buy an HP printer, and came out of the store with an Epson printer, because there was an Epson representative in the store, and I liked what he had to say!

[computeruler]

hahahahaha these people shure are influncial!

[evilfantasy]

I once went to Best Buy intending to buy an HP printer, and came out of the store with an Epson printer, because there was an Epson representative in the store, and I liked what he had to say!

Exactly. They aren't doing anything that other big companies don't already do. It's usually around the holidays that they send in reps to help the existing sales staff. The only thing is that the "reps" are often hired through a temp agency and given a crash course in sales. Some are good and some, not so much...