If Microsoft Poaches Apple Store Workers, Good Riddance

From PC World: During the Cold War, other totalitarian states kept their citizens behind walls, but if Apple Store employees want to defect to Microsoft, why not?

My pal, Mac pundit Jim Dalrymple quotes people who don't want to incur Apple's wrath, reporting that Microsoft is attempting to woo managers of Apple's stores to its own fledgling retail venture.

If Microsoft's propaganda is to be believed, these folks may not have to walk very far to their new jobs. Redmond says it wants to open its new stores right next to Apple's existing storefronts.

My advice to anyone at an Apple Store who finds Microsoft Money (the real thing, not the dead app) dangled in his or her face: Beware! Microsoft has bailed on a retail concept before. It happened in San Francisco, and while I feel Microsoft is committed this time, failure is quite possible. Though it could be years in the making.

Seriously, if Apple is really a calling and not just a job, the company is better off shedding people who would so easily move to "the dark side."

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