crunchgear.com - 2/13/2009
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So Microsoft is going to have themselves a little retail space . This is, of course, ripe for mockery, and I’m sure tomorrow will bring the fruits of photoshop contests from around the web. Will it be wall-to-wall Vista boxes? Will you have to sign a license agreement to get in? Will ...
microsoft.com - 2/12/2009
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microsoft.com —
Twenty-seven-year retail veteran will focus on transforming the
PC and device-buying experience for retail consumers and developing...
and rolling out new Microsoft-branded stores. REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 12, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that ...
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Microsoft Appoints David Porter as Corporate Vice ...
blogs.zdnet.com - 2/13/2009
kara.allthingsd.com - 2/13/2009
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kara.allthingsd.com —
Displaying BoomTown’s advanced age and elephantine cache of
meaningless tech memories, after news yesterday that the software...
giant was plunging into the retail market, I was surprised to find little mention that Microsoft’s last store ...
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Department of Déjà Vu: Last Microsoft Retail Store Foray ...
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The next Microsoft and Apple battleground: Retail
VentureBeat —
... A retail store can help fix that because, it can “show the consumer what their product looks like ideally,” as CrunchGear’s Devin Coldeway points out. And to be clear, he’s talking about Apple’s retail stores with that statement — and that is clearly what Microsoft and pretty much any retailer should be shooting for. Apple creates little Mac Utopias in each of its retail stores where everything just seems to work. ...
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BuzzMachine —
... TechCrunch giggles wondering what the new Microsoft store will be like: “Will it be wall-to-wall Vista boxes? Will you have to sign a license agreement to get in? Will they avoid the color “BSOD blue”?” ...
Around the Web 2.13.09: Microsoft stores, YouTube paid downloads, the Intel mobile
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... -- Microsoft takes a crack at part of Apple's strategy by opening retail stores. Could it actually work? CrunchGear
-- Terabit Ethernet may be upon us. Ars Technica
-- YouTube enables paid downloads for some of its partners. ReadWriteWeb
-- Netflix, still the only subscription-based streaming movie service, hits 10 million subscribers. THR
-- Sony Music re-signs with YouTube, making it the first major studio to do so. All Things ...
Microsoft stores aim to encourage Windows shopping
GMSV —
... , the microsoftSF store in San Francisco’s Metreon Sony Entertainment Center, survived only a couple of years before closing in 2001. But the company is convinced that its problem is not with products, but preconceptions, and it seems determined to fight that battle hand-to-hand . Now if only everybody would stop making ...
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venturebeat.com 2/18/2009 — This is set up almost too perfectly. We’re in the midst of the work economic downturn since the Great Depression, retail sales are plummeting, consumer spending is way down and so what does Microsoft want to do? Open retail stores . But ...
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The rumor first started in April 2008 , and many were skeptical Microsoft was really planning to follow in Apple's footsteps and launch its own retail stores. In November , the company launched its online Microsoft Store in the US, and the ...
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crunchgear.com 2/13/2009 —
I guess it had to happen: Microsoft is opening retail stores with the help of some guy named Dave Porter who used to work for Wal-Mart. Super synergy. I can see it now: these stores will be the exact polar opposite of the Apple Store - brightly ...
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