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Microsoft Opening More Retail Store Locations

July 13, 2011 5:25:11 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums

Microsoft is expanding their network of retail stores in the coming years.  There’s only a handful of them now, but over the next 3 years they are going to expand to at least 75 new stores around the country.

Via Neowin:

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Reply #1 July 13, 2011 5:33:00 PM
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I really wasn't aware of the fact Microsoft had 'brick and mortor' stores. 

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Reply #2 July 13, 2011 5:40:48 PM
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Whole new meaning to hardware acceleration.

Interesting when you consider that the software (specifically Office) will be in a stripped down form (Word and Excel) on new computers, and Office will be an online app. Well, maybe not so odd when you consider that MS still sells a lot of hardware.

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Reply #3 July 13, 2011 5:42:22 PM
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Hm, that map of existing stores is wrong. I've been to the Lone Tree, Colorado store many times, and it is not in Wyoming

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Reply #4 July 13, 2011 5:42:36 PM
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Wow, and it looks like they have Indianapolis on the list!  Nice!

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Reply #5 July 13, 2011 6:25:41 PM
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And of course, Kansas City isn't important enough to have one, not that I really care that much about Microsoft.

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Reply #6 July 13, 2011 8:01:15 PM
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Yea, they screw us Kansas City Gamers....oh well.

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Reply #7 July 13, 2011 10:42:58 PM
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It seems that MS has not got the hang of that internet thingy.

Would this be because they are moving into the mobile market? Compete against the apple stores?

 

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Reply #8 July 13, 2011 10:55:21 PM
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Quoting tazgecko,
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Compete against the apple stores?

That's pretty much exactly what the MS Stores are, right down to the floorplan. Except with a corner for Xboxs in the back . They have a little more room to walk around though, which I like. A surprisingly large amount of people do actually go to the one by me, although I guess if that weren't the case they (probably) wouldn't be building more.

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Reply #9 July 13, 2011 11:27:22 PM
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A surprisingly large amount of people do actually go to the one by me, although I guess if that weren't the case they (probably) wouldn't be building more.

 

I don't know, that didn't stop Gateway...

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Reply #10 July 14, 2011 12:51:01 AM
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My family and I must have been one of the very few people to go to a Gateway store, where my dad put in the order for the computer I am using now, while my brother and I played the Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast demo which caused us to get the full version as our first PC game.

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Reply #11 July 14, 2011 11:41:44 AM
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Quoting kyogre12,
reply 3
Hm, that map of existing stores is wrong. I've been to the Lone Tree, Colorado store many times, and it is not in Wyoming

They did not use Google Maps!

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