{"id":468,"date":"2009-10-23T09:57:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2009-10-23T09:57:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:57:56","slug":"microsoft-opens-first-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Opens First Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft opened it&#8217;s first Apple Store ripoff today in Scottsdale, Arizona. I still don&#8217;t know what they plan to sell there that I can&#8217;t just get at a Best Buy. I also don&#8217;t know who the people in this video are cheering to, or who the line of people walking in are. I seriously doubt they&#8217;re actual customers. I don&#8217;t know anyone who loves Microsoft enough to actually stand in line for a Microsoft store opening, let alone cheer about it. My guess is that the people in the video are employees, employee family members, and PR firm staff.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/g9Hk0ZCqRxg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft opened it&#8217;s first Apple Store ripoff today in Scottsdale, Arizona. I still don&#8217;t know what they plan to sell there that I can&#8217;t just get at a Best Buy. I also don&#8217;t know who &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32FB4-7y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":392,"url":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=392","url_meta":{"origin":468,"position":0},"title":"Microsoft to open &#8220;Microsoft Stores&#8221;","author":"Matt","date":"July 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Really? 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