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Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores
blogs.zdnet.com - 2/13/2009
Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores
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Microsoft is planning to launch a number of new Microsoft-branded retail stores, according to a company press release issued late in the day on February 12.
microsoft.com - 2/12/2009
Microsoft Appoints David Porter as Corporate Vice President of Retail Stores: Twenty-seven-year ...
— 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 ... (more) Microsoft Appoints David Porter as Corporate Vice ...

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Department of Déjà Vu: Last Microsoft Retail Store Foray Was a Bust
kara.allthingsd.com - 2/13/2009
Department of Déjà Vu: Last Microsoft Retail Store Foray Was a Bust
— 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 ... (more) Department of Déjà Vu: Last Microsoft Retail Store Foray ...

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microsoft.com - 2/13/2009
Microsoft Debuts microsoftSF Retail Environment At San Francisco's Metreon Sony Entertainment ...
— microsoft.com — Microsoft unveiled microsoftSF, an interactive, hands-on retail environment in which people of all ages, from all walks... of life and at all levels of technological expertise can explore the benefits technology can bring them. SAN FRANCISCO, June 16, ... (more) Microsoft Debuts microsoftSF Retail Environment At San ...

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The Inquisitr » Technology:  Microsoft to open retail stores [Bad Ideas]

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Microsoft to open retail stores [Bad Ideas]
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... The one thing that you’ve always been able to say about Apple is that the retail experience is one of the major cornerstones of its business and like everything else it does it very well. The word is that Microsoft; for whatever reasons, is headed down, once more, that retail store road. Unlike Apple though, I sincerely doubt that Microsoft will be able to pull off the same kind of style or retail experience that Apple does. This seems to be Mary Jo Foley’s feeling on the idea as well I have to admit I’m doubtful ...

Microsoft plans to open retail stores ala Apple
Obsessable News Feed — ... [The Inquisitr » Technology] Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores [All about Microsoft] ...

Confirmed: Microsoft Opening Retail Stores [Microsoft]
Gizmodo — ... that spent 25 years at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart! Porter's first job is to figure out where the stores will be and when they'll launch. In the past, Microsoft has fiddled with concept stores around its campus. Either way, Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet is right that it'll be great to have a store to demo Microsoft tech and Windows laptops side by side, since so many chains are dropping away. If they're smart, they'll do some variation of the Genius bar, too. [Microsoft via All About Microsoft] ...

¡Microsoft abrirá tiendas físicas!
Gizmología — ... Microsoft a principios de año lanzó al mundo una especie de estudio de como deberían ser las tiendas físicas, claro, siempre que usen productos de Microsoft, evidentemente. Parece que les afectó tanto que todo apunta a que Microsoft abrirá sus propias tiendas según una nota de prensa ...

Linkpost | 2.13.2009
TechBlog — ... - 11 percent of online adults use some kind of status-updating site, such as Twitter. • Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores - Names a new corporate VP of retail. • ...

Microsoft to open retail stores near Apple's this fall
Bink.nu — ... Microsoft officials announced in February that Microsoft was planning to open retail stores but have offered few details since that time as to what the stores would look like or when they’d open. I did hear from some Softies that the stores wouldn’t be clones of Apple’s, and that they’d be more showcases than actual retail outlets. ...

Microsoft Store Now Sells PCs
Mashable! — ... After the announcement about opening two brick-and-mortar stores, Microsoft has taken another step in the direction of selling third party hardware. We’ll see how far they’re willing to take it. ...

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