Microsoft Courts Moms on Montague
There’s a weird game of musical stores going on at 89-93 Montague Street. The Blue Rose clothing store, located in the corner store has moved to the middle location next door to make room for what the Brooklyn Eagle reports is a “three week pre-Mother’s Day program” offered by Microsoft.
What that means is MSFT will be promoting its highly “successful” Windows Vista and Windows Live products and will be showing Moms and their families how “easy” it is to use these products to upload photos to the web. Family portraits will be taken by “top photographers” with hair and make up folks on site for “touch ups”.
The store will be open from April 19 until Mother’s Day May 11. Photos will be available at portraitsofmom.com .
While this is a great opportunity for Mom, we won’t be psyched until Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer goes ballistic for this promotion as he has in the past for other MSFT ventures:
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Posted : April 10th, 2008 at 10:18 pm by Homer Fink under Brooklyn Heights, Events.
Tags:brooklyn daily eagle, Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn Heights, microsoft, mom portraits, mother's day
Comments: 12
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Comment from Joe
Time: April 11, 2008, 12:46 am
Vista is so successful Microsoft will actually spend money to rent space in prime brooklyn location and show mom’s how easy it is to use. Something doesn’t jive here.
Comment from yo
Time: April 11, 2008, 12:25 pm
who says that montague isn’t any fun anymore?
Comment from John B
Time: April 11, 2008, 3:00 pm
Some classes offered at the new Misco$quish store:
–Advanced Chair Throwing 201
–Monkey Bouncing for CEO’s in training
and last, but not least,
–How to sow Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt thru advanced use of Press Manipulation and Vaporware.
Just my 4¢ from North Pole, Alaska
Comment from jd
Time: April 11, 2008, 4:57 pm
I’m surprised they didn’t opt to do this in Park Slope. Isn’t it the undisputed mothers-with-babies capital of Brooklyn? And just think of all the strollers Ballmer could throw…
Comment from yo
Time: April 11, 2008, 5:40 pm
something tells me that park slope is squarely within “mac country”
Comment from Billy Reno
Time: April 11, 2008, 8:29 pm
He makes Howard Dean look absolutely stoic!
Comment from nabeguy
Time: April 14, 2008, 12:09 pm
Stoic? Dean looks comatose in comparison to this freak. This promotion is almost as absurd as this guys pitch.
Comment from JGM
Time: April 14, 2008, 1:41 pm
So…Carrol Gardens is in an uproar because a cool oyster bar may open…and Montague St is slated to get a temp store to teach moms how to use a computer? This is exactly what BH residents want??? We should offer CG a switch, straight up.
Comment from Andrew
Time: April 14, 2008, 3:48 pm
I understand the temporary retail concept, but I don’t get why Blue Rose is moving next door and then back to the corner. Will there ever be a tenant in that middle store?
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Time: April 20, 2008, 2:07 pm
[...] The Windows Live Portrait Studio is now open on Montague Street. This was the scene on Saturday in front of the store, not to mention the dude on stilts photographed by BHB pal Twofones. In keeping with today being 4/20, there’s a juggler at the store. [...]
Comment from Andrew Porter
Time: April 20, 2008, 5:35 pm
I have no comment. Of course, I’ve got an iMac. Tell me again, what’s a “virus”? Oh, and what’s a “Bill Gates”? Anything to do with Watergate?
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Time: January 19, 2009, 1:45 pm
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