MS retail video leaked?

10/16/09 10:36

Microsoft has been widely snickered at in Mac circles for their plans to open a chain of company-branded stores to compete with Apple’s wildly successful retail juggernaut. The prevailing take is that Microsoft’s effort is a bit like your Dad slapping on a pair of Abercrombie skinny jeans and a Kings of Leon t-shirt to prove he’s still “with it” like the cool kids. (Which is not true at all: the outfit is more like a pair of K-Mart “Faded Glory” carpenter jeans and a Larry the Cable Guy t-shirt. )

So besides gi-normous Halo clips in HD, what will customers see on those rumored 94-inch floor-to-ceiling screens at the new franchise? How about technology demo videos of upcoming MS products? Like this one, leaked from this guy that knows a dude whose sister dates a guy who used to deliver sandwiches to an ad agency that was once sorta involved with the store project:

Of course, if Ballmer & Co really wanted to encourage cutting edge innovation, they should just give a couple of these gizmos to the people who drive almost every high-tech innovation from the VCR to downloadable web video: the nation’s porno producers. Big-Ass Table? Niche product. Big Ass-Table? Now we’re talking!

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