this is a brilliant move especially because of the bad economic times.
Vista works great if all the hardware is certified logo complient
these stores can carry only logo compliant pc which will not crash, or fuck up (at least not as much as non compliant shit)
as more and more people associate good pc with the microsoft stores, they will take business away from the other chains.
Of course they will show their channel partners who if they make sure that the entire pc is logo compliant they can have pc that will not crash either and therefore will not lose their customers to microsoft stores.
which will shift sales away from non compliant stuff to logo compliant stuff in all their channel partners too.
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