Apple and Windows Together? Only for Pranksters

05.06.2011
Apple and Windows don't mix, unless you are a prankster in Germany.

A group of pranksters posing as construction workers on Saturday attached a four-piece Windows logo to the outside of an Apple retail store in Hamburg that is being built.

According to , the store is Apple's second in the city and it may open by the end of September.

Not to worry Apple fans, the sign is easily removable, is reporting. That makes the situation a temporary annoyance for Apple instead of an identity crisis for one of its latest stores.

A video of the prank was uploaded to a YouTube user called . Since being posted, it has been viewed roughly 30,000 times.

notes the irony that the prank took place shortly after "fluctuations in the U.S. stock market resulted in Apple's market value exceeding the combined value of Microsoft and Intel."

Apple stores saw their . Now there are more than around the world.

Microsoft . According to its , there are now 11 Microsoft stores around the U.S.