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Microsoft builds pretend retail store, wants to play house later
engadget.com - 1/13/2009
Microsoft builds pretend retail store, wants to play house later
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Microsoft's new Retail Experience Center is a new showcase of Microsoft's products and solutions for retailers -- including back-end stuff and point of sale. It's all pretty boring and corporate, but it could also be construed as a look at what a Microsoft take on an "Apple Store-style" ...
microsoftontheissues.com - 1/9/2009
Microsoft On The Issues
— microsoftontheissues.com — Workforce Development and Economic Stimulus Given the constant flow of dreary news battering American workers – including... today’s announcement that jobless claims soared to 524,000 in December as the unemployment rate jumped to a 16-year high of 7.2 ... (more) Microsoft On The Issues

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online.wsj.com - 1/12/2009
Microsoft Betting Big on 'Touch'
— online.wsj.com — While Apple Inc.'s iPhone kicked off the craze for touch-sensing screens on mobile phones, Microsoft Corp. is... pushing a similar technology for personal-computer screens that could eventually replace the computer mouse. N-trig Ltd., an Israeli ... (more) Microsoft Betting Big on 'Touch'

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Microsoft Plans to Continue Zune Hardware, Embrace Other Platforms
blog.wired.com - 1/13/2009
Microsoft Plans to Continue Zune Hardware, Embrace Other Platforms
— blog.wired.com — Several publications have taken Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's assertion that software is a big part of Zune's... future to mean that Microsoft plans to abandon Zune hardware. But a spokesman says Microsoft has no plans to abandon Zune, although it ... (more) Microsoft Plans to Continue Zune Hardware, Embrace Other ...

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Microsoft Builds Retail Store
Tech Blog — ... Think of this store as a "Circuit City plus a few Surface displays, Microsoft Tags and magical screen-equipped shopping carts." Unfortunately, it's not open to the public. Click here for first picture in gallery. Oh, and before you gather up your Zune pals for a road trip: the Experience Center is real, but the customers are fake. [via Engadget] ...

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